Cool. I guess the numbers are wrong according to PFT, its mostly incentives! "It was spoon fed both to ESPN and NFL Media as a one-year, $10.75 million deal. The truth is lower than that. A lot lower. The deal has a base value of only $3.25 million, per a source with knowledge of the deal. Of that amount, only $2.49 million is fully guaranteed at signing.." https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...chuster-deal-is-worth-far-less-than-reported/ Does this new information change your opinion in anyway? I'll pose it again: Would you rather have: 25 year old JuJu Smith-Schuster at ~$3 million OR 30 year old Laken Tomlinson at ~$13 million
Nope. Changes nothing. JuJu is a distraction that hasn't been worth it for about three years now. RG was a massive need and we filled it with one of the best. There's a reason he had to sign a $3 mil deal with the rest of the money tied to him actually producing.
I think good teams have to worry about being distracted. When you are 4-13, "distraction" not really too much of a concern IMO. If you are 4-13 and NOT distracted, then you need better players.
I feel like this is completely ass backwards. So you want a guy who puts social media first and football second to be a key cog in your offense that you're trying to build around a second year QB?
I dont give a shit about twitter, tik tok or facebook. He is 25 years old and he caught 9 TD passes in his last full season. We havent had anyone catch that many TDs in over 7 seasons... If it was a 1-to-1 comparison, maybe I'd see your point. But Smith-Schuster is making $10 million less... this guard better be good!!
He has the football IQ of a 10-year-old, you can't argue with him. I don't care if we had Randy Moss and Jerry Rice without a RG we could never get them the ball. Is JuJu a better option than what we have at slot today or who we may draft? Not really IMHO.
You not giving a shit about it doesn’t make it any less real. So if your mindset is “if I don’t care about it then it doesn’t matter “then I could fully understand why you are jonesing for a guy that has to settle for $3 mil guaranteed with tons of incentives. Read between the lines there…
The Bengals just made it to the Super Bowl with one of the worst OLs in football but with one of the best skill groups in football so I have never and will never subscribe to the "it doesn't matter who is catching passes if you can't protect the QB". But freakin JuJu is absolutely not the guy you bring in to offset a lack of OL talent. I totally agree there... we have better options in the draft that could be longterm solutions.
Having the worst o-line in football is not sustainable and it cost them the Superbowl and almost their QB. They will not make it back to another SB with the worst o-line in football, it was an anomaly. I agree with what you are trying to say.
It's way easier to build an OL than it is a skill group. See: The Bengals. They just rebuilt their entire OL in one offseason. And back to the original point: JuJu is not someone you sacrifice an high-end OL signing for.
I think so. We are told he's a distraction because he loves social media so much. If that's the case I imagine he'd love the opportunity to play in America's biggest media market, NY, over Kansas City (31st media market)
Yeah, why not? 1 year deal for $3 million? you kidding me, these are the risks we should be taking. Buy low on a young playmaker and see it if pans out. Instead of locking in an aging guard for over $13 million for each of the next 3 seasons
