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Actually, 6 mil a year would rank him #10 for average salaries for TE's.
1 Jimmy Graham $10,000,000
2 Rob Gronkowski $9,000,000
3 Jason Witten $7,400,000
4 Vernon Davis $7,350,000
5 Kyle Rudolph $7,300,000
6 Antonio Gates $7,235,000
7 Jared Cook $7,020,000
8 Marcedes Lewis $6,800,000
9 Dennis Pitta $6,400,000
10 Martellus Bennett $5,100,000
11 Brent Celek $4,875,000
12 Greg Olsen $4,560,000
13 Delanie Walker $4,375,000
You have to look at when some of these players signed their contracts. Olson, Cook, Walker were several years ago even though they outperformed Clay in 2014.
6 mil may be a little steep but the market will dictate. Supply and demand.
Top FA TE's are Jordan Cameron, Julius Thomas. Other guys avaialble will be Tony Moeki, Jermaine Gresham, Jacob Tamme, Owen Daniels, Niles Paul, Zach Miller.
(Also wondering about Dustin Keller)
Anthony Fasano makes 4 mil. Surely Clay is worth a lot more than that. It is still possible we could get him for 5 mil.
I'd take 1 mil less to NOT go to Buffalo.
Just think, the Bills could sign Matt Moore and Charles Clay.
Armando Salguero ?@ArmandoSalguero 1m1 minute ago
Transition tag on TE Charles Clay is costing Dolphins $7.01M now. Team will continue to talk contract but his per annum floor seems set.
Because it's useless for a player with huge upside and in demand. No compensation. Teams like Buffalo, with huge cap space will just drive up the price.
The Bills, which have $17.1 million in cap space after trading for LeSean McCoy and Matt Cassel, could create a difficult salary cap situation for Miami by creating a contract with a large first year cap hit - Sentinel
JoeFootball Wrote:
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> Because it's useless for a player with huge upside
> and in demand. No compensation. Teams like
> Buffalo, with huge cap space will just drive up
> the price.
We aren't getting into a bidding war. We tried to sign him before free agency. Couldn't get on the same page. If we were going to overpay, we'd have done it already.
We have a price we'll match. If someone wants to over pay, then he's gone.
Using the transition tag is a very sound move because it gives us the right to match any offer we deem reasonable and it doesn't force us to overpay him.
Its NOT a mistake using the transition tag on Clay.
The mistake would be paying an H-back 8-9m a year for 5 years.
The Bills still need to spend money on Hughes and a QB, so I am not so convinced they are going to pay Clay that big of a deal..
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THE Truth Wrote:
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> JoeFootball Wrote:
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> > Because it's useless for a player with huge
> upside
> > and in demand. No compensation. Teams like
> > Buffalo, with huge cap space will just drive up
> > the price.
>
>
> We aren't getting into a bidding war. We tried
> to sign him before free agency. Couldn't get on
> the same page. If we were going to overpay, we'd
> have done it already.
>
> We have a price we'll match. If someone wants to
> over pay, then he's gone.
>
> Using the transition tag is a very sound move
> because it gives us the right to match any offer
> we deem reasonable and it doesn't force us to
> overpay him.
>
>
>
> Its NOT a mistake using the transition tag on
> Clay.
>
> The mistake would be paying an H-back 8-9m a year
> for 5 years.
I agree
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berkeley223 Wrote:
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> THE Truth Wrote:
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> > JoeFootball Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Because it's useless for a player with huge
> > upside
> > > and in demand. No compensation. Teams like
> > > Buffalo, with huge cap space will just drive
> up
> > > the price.
> >
> >
> > We aren't getting into a bidding war. We
> tried
> > to sign him before free agency. Couldn't get
> on
> > the same page. If we were going to overpay,
> we'd
> > have done it already.
> >
> > We have a price we'll match. If someone wants
> to
> > over pay, then he's gone.
> >
> > Using the transition tag is a very sound move
> > because it gives us the right to match any
> offer
> > we deem reasonable and it doesn't force us to
> > overpay him.
> >
> >
> >
> > Its NOT a mistake using the transition tag on
> > Clay.
> >
> > The mistake would be paying an H-back 8-9m a
> year
> > for 5 years.
>
> I agree
That's what everyone said about a slot receiver a few years ago.
It's only 1 more mil (peanuts) to franchise him and give yourself the time to work out a LT deal and no one is going to push your price up because they would have to give up a 1st (or 2) to make the offer.
They also re-signed Hughes for 5 year 45 mil. (They now have 40 mil in cap space for their front 4)
It's a 5.5 cap hit for McCoy in 2015, probably 6.5 for Hughes. They had 17.1 mil after the trades for McCoy (before new contract) and Cassell. LM's original capo hit was around 10 mil so they cleared 4.5 mil.
So now that Clay is visiting Cleveland, you know the Jets will wait on their offer so Cleveland doesn't have a point of reference. I wish they would just cut Ellerbe and get on with FA.
Buffalo is looking at Anthony Fasano to be the #2 TE. I think they have 15 mil in cap space.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/12/2015 05:28AM by JoeFootball.