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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Perhaps the Cardinals can roll the dice and give the Ravens two firsts for Flacco if the Ravens non-exclusive tag him, which is apparently what they are leaning to. Smart call if true, if someone wants to give up two first round picks, especially when they mean a lot more than they used to with the rookie cap in place, and it also avoids you paying Flacco $20 million a season, then you gotta do it. Aaron Rodgers is pulling for Flacco though, if Flacco is worth $20 million than Rodgers has to be worth at least $30 million.
And this is where I hope the Ravens don't cave to Flacco and give him $20 million. Quarterbacks are just becoming too big a part of the cap equation. Is Joe Flacco really worth 1/6 of the Ravens entire cap space? I really don't think so. Joe is in the top 8-12 QBs in the league, but that means he should be in the $12-15 million dollar range. The Ravens should be happy with the thought of two more first round picks. With those you can send a second rounder to San Francisco for Alex Smith and still be a contender but with much bigger assets going forward and more cap relief in the future (Smith only has two years left at $8 million per).
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Your source of the non-exclusive tag came from one of the biggest rag websites on the internet and a ###### who should have his teeth punched in. I'm talking about Mike Florio. Pro Football Rag or that tool named Mike Florio is not a good source of NFL related news if they are using their own sources which they did to report the non-exclusive tag story.
Just as I was typing that someone who has credible sources in Ian Rapport said Joe Linta and the Ravens brass have been "plugging away" over the past week and have spent 8 hours meetings trying to get a deal done. He also said, so far, so good. Both sides want a new deal done done by March 4th.
Joe Linta is the one asking for $20 million for a year, remember reading/hearing somewhere Joe Flacco said he was willing to take a little less money to help keep some of his teammates around. In the end I think Joe Flacco gets paid what he reportedly asked for last summer which was $17-18 million a year.
All I can do is laugh at your Arizona and Alex Smith stuff. In the end its gonna to be funny as hell to see you whine like an idiot when he receives a contract that likely exceeds $100 million.