[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

So to be clear, you're saying make your best offer, and if he says no then slap the $34M franchise tag on him, and hold onto him as long as possible to make a trade?

What if he signs the $34M the second you put the tag on him, as he's done the past two years? It's a guaranteed contract at that point. You can't release him at that point. The second he signs it you lose complete control. He gets 100% control over whether he wants to negotiate a trade with other teams or whether he wants to collect $34M from you.

To say nothing of what carrying a $34M QB does to your cap when free agency opens on March 6. It's a non starter.

We really need to brush up on what the franchise tag means, in terms of cap space, in terms of what happens when it's signed, in terms of deadlines, all of that. There seems to be so much misunderstanding that you guys are coming up with cockamamie schemes to extract value for him, but you'd actually put the Redskins even further behind the 8 ball.

Redskins put the Redskins further behind the 8 ball...hence my original thought to why unlikely. Its pattern unfortunately.