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Hardy says he wouldn't mind franchise tag

Jmac

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A second? Hardy has transformed into an elite DE and he's still very young. Greg is not just a pass rusher. He punishes RBs without mercy too. The Kraken will only fetch a first rounder. DEs of his caliber are rare, essential premiums.

He ain't going anywhere though. G-Man values his hog mollies.

 

Sorry, but some of the money our beloved Kraken is gonna want is gonna have to go to Cam and Kuechly.

 

It's just business, and it sucks, but it's how it goes.

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A second? Hardy has transformed into an elite DE and he's still very young. Greg is not just a pass rusher. He punishes RBs without mercy too. The Kraken will only fetch a first rounder. DEs of his caliber are rare, essential premiums.

He ain't going anywhere though. G-Man values his hog mollies.

We have too much money in RB's to sign Hardy and extend Cam. Not to mention, Gross is on his last year of his deal and guys like Mike Mitchell, Graham Gano, are FA's this year.

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We better never sign any RB to a huge contract again, especially after seeing what rookies have been doing the last few yrs. 

 

There's no excuse to have cap problems when we don't even have any franchise players signed to big contracts.  Our best players are playing for pennies, while we have easily replaceable players hogging the cap. 

 

They better find a way to re-sign Hardy, no excuses.  I don't want to hear about picks, or trades, that's a crap shoot.  We have him, and we are in the driver's seat.  Get it done.  If we are who we wish to be, a championship caliber team with a championship caliber defensive unit we'll always have our players. 

 

The Ravens had multiple pro bowl stars every year on their defensive unit, never lost anyone. 

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CJ is going to make 8.75 million next year, 9.75 the next, and 10.75 in 2016. 

 

That's around the framework I would expect Hardy to want/sign for. CJ also got the huge signing bonus though, so Gettleman is going to have to get creative to frame Hardy's contract in a way that doesn't murder us either next year, or down the road if the contract is back loaded. 

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Franchise would be the worst situation for us. That would only benefit us if we intend to trade him. There is no way we can afford to try and payout two big contracts and take the cap hit at the end of 2014 season with both Cam and Hardy. The only reason I'm not worried about Cam's contract next year is we really don't have any big contracts to renew and Beason's dead money expires. The only way Hardy stays is to do some restructuring of other contracts. The 8M offered to him was a great offer based on our current situation, it would have left about 8-10M for us for resigns and draft picks. We need to restructure Godfrey and Stewerts contracts ASAP while we have some leverage on them with other players playing well in their respective positions. It wouldn't hurt to try and restructure Smitty and even CJs again. That way we can offer Hardy more like the 12M a yr he is looking for. It's really not normal to do so much restructuring but that's the only way to get out of this mess, Gman knows this.

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I see DG being the UnHurney and getting a deal done.

He was there when the Giants got Tuck signed for 5 yrs 30 million on an extension. I love CJ...don't get me wrong but no player other than the QB or a Calvin Johnson type WR deserves 72 million. Teams are starting to wise up to that fact.

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