UnicornONtheCOBB
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- Jun 29, 2016
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Offer sheets are pretty uncommon, I don't want to paralyze our team in fear of one, Leon also has to actually want to sign it, beyond just being offered one. If his agent was able to get a team to submit an offersheet, Leon could just be like team A gave me an offersheet for X amount, match it or I sign it. Their is no obligation for him to sign an offersheet he gets and I imagine all things being equal this is the place he most wants to be. Another thing with offersheets is we have a week to match so we can move some salary if need be, we should also have a walk away number in our head, to me that is around $10.5M where we just can't realistically sign him for that much and have to take the picks.
I'm not advocating going crazy taking on a bunch of money and damn the consequences, but if their is a value UFA out there that can be had for $1-2M that helps our team we should just go out and get it done.
but my point is the bargain players that we want aren't ready to settle for low money, 1 year deals at this point. It's only 4 days into free agency, the value deals don't usually happen until later on in the summer.
Also, while I agree that offer sheets are rare and we can't live in fear of one, we also can't screw ourselves over and not leave the option to match because we overspent on free agents.