Signing(s): Calvin Ridley signs with the Titans (4 years, $92 million)
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He's not getting the full $92. $23 mill AAV. Realistically, it's likely a 2 year deal that has up to around $50 mill in guaranteed money would be a rough guess.
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Yeah. Move kind of signals that TEN would shift from WR with Burks/Ridley now to getting an OT which is what the talent at 7 should be. They can circle back with another WR in round 2.
But, have to wait for the details. Sometimes the real money is less than the AAV that is reported. He may get $40 mill in real money. Just don't know til you see it.
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maybe the Titans thought they needed to pay him extra to make up for what he lost while suspended
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Guys I refuse to pay AJ Brown who is 24 or 25 years old, and wanted $95 -$100 million
But Calvin Ridley??? Here take this money at 29/30 years of age.
Guys I refuse to pay AJ Brown who is 24 or 25 years old, and wanted $95 -$100 million
But Calvin Ridley??? Here take this money at 29/30 years of age.
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Whatevs.
I had that same shock horror react when it was first announced, but we don't have anyone worth paying in the next few years and have space to burn.
We're also in this odd position of needing more than we can realistically fill via the draft. We don't have many assets and a young QB that needs to be evaluated.
We haven't had good WR play since our AFCCG run with AJB, Davis, some of the slot guys and then Jonnu Smith at TE.
Realistically we could have traded a pick for a more desirable 8/10 player, but for us in our position we're probably better off just signing the 7/10 player for cap alone.
Will Levis is still a major question mark. His arm talent is absolutely jaw dropping. The way he can flick his wrist and the ball explodes down the field was really fun to watch, but that doesn't equate being a good fundamental QB and we've also had the worst offensive line in the league and non-existant weapons outside of a post apex DHop.
For the sake of giving Levis a far shake to know if can be the guy that we build around we needed to address WR and OL this offseason. Cushenberry / Ridley etc are some nice adds. Hopefully Alt in the draft and we have a foundation to work with.
And then if he sucks then we're in the market for one of the top QBs in the 2025 class.
Still feels like we're drifting into that space of purgatory. Jon Robinson didn't leave us in a good space after constantly letting talent walk and convincing his hubris self that everyone was replaceable.
The old regime let Conklin and Brown walk for nothing and replaced them with busts in Isaiah Wilson and Treylon Burks and we took significant steps back.
If we suck again, oh well, but again anyone worth paying has been paid.
Also Ridley is younger in football years than his actual age after two years of rest. If he can give two or three decent seasons around 1K yards, then cool.
Pats offered ~$22 million per season and the Jags had an offer for not very far away either. You have to pay to play sadly and Ridley was the best wideout on the open market.
Neutral / slightly positive on this.
Robinson was literally fired by AAS for how the AJB saga transpired.
It's the easy parallel to make here, but it's not really intellectually honest (or fair).
I had that same shock horror react when it was first announced, but we don't have anyone worth paying in the next few years and have space to burn.
We're also in this odd position of needing more than we can realistically fill via the draft. We don't have many assets and a young QB that needs to be evaluated.
We haven't had good WR play since our AFCCG run with AJB, Davis, some of the slot guys and then Jonnu Smith at TE.
Realistically we could have traded a pick for a more desirable 8/10 player, but for us in our position we're probably better off just signing the 7/10 player for cap alone.
Will Levis is still a major question mark. His arm talent is absolutely jaw dropping. The way he can flick his wrist and the ball explodes down the field was really fun to watch, but that doesn't equate being a good fundamental QB and we've also had the worst offensive line in the league and non-existant weapons outside of a post apex DHop.
For the sake of giving Levis a far shake to know if can be the guy that we build around we needed to address WR and OL this offseason. Cushenberry / Ridley etc are some nice adds. Hopefully Alt in the draft and we have a foundation to work with.
And then if he sucks then we're in the market for one of the top QBs in the 2025 class.
Still feels like we're drifting into that space of purgatory. Jon Robinson didn't leave us in a good space after constantly letting talent walk and convincing his hubris self that everyone was replaceable.
The old regime let Conklin and Brown walk for nothing and replaced them with busts in Isaiah Wilson and Treylon Burks and we took significant steps back.
If we suck again, oh well, but again anyone worth paying has been paid.
Also Ridley is younger in football years than his actual age after two years of rest. If he can give two or three decent seasons around 1K yards, then cool.
Pats offered ~$22 million per season and the Jags had an offer for not very far away either. You have to pay to play sadly and Ridley was the best wideout on the open market.
Neutral / slightly positive on this.
Robinson was literally fired by AAS for how the AJB saga transpired.
It's the easy parallel to make here, but it's not really intellectually honest (or fair).
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Rappaport is literally saying that she wasn’t comfortable with Browns guarantee’s.
As Guarantees have to be written right away with a check in escrow in the CBA.
She may not have said trade him, but not putting forth the guarantee’s that he demanded essentially lead to the trade.
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AJ has stated pretty explicitly before that Robinson was the one that got himself fired for that move.
He flew too close to the sun and had been burning talent for years.
I'm fairly certain he convinced ownership that he could run back the Jefferson for Diggs trade, and was fired directly after we played AJB the first time in Philadelphia because he was proven utterly false. This isn't the first time he tried to make a move like that.
He was living off of the juice of that 2019 class that provided like five impact starters (Simmons, Brown, Hooker, Long, Nate Davis)
It really hurts though because AJ Brown was the heart and soul of the team along with Henry, Simmons and Byard before he got washed up.
He had a TO 'that's my quarterback' type moment crying in front of cameras when Mariota was benched for Tannehill. It'll go down as one of the worst deals in NFL history and hopefully the person that greenlit it is the one that fell by the sword, but we have to move on.
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Big money up front, but this isn't altering anything restricting us in any way over the next few seasons. Good deal for both parties.
