Dez asking for 17m a year

[Little Jr]

That's what espn nfl insiders just reported.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Good luck with that. I don't see him getting it from the Cowboys.

 

[CATCH17]

If true i'd franchise him twice and then let him walk.

We don't have a good enough offensive scheme that could even begin to validate spending 17 mill on a receiver.

 

[windjc]

That's what espn nfl insiders just reported.

If that is true, then Wide Receiver by Committee!

No receiver is worth that.

 

[Idgit]

Was it from a source familiar with the negotiation?

 

[tyke1doe]

Shooting for the stars, hoping for the moon.
He'll get his money. Not $17 million, but he'll get paid.
He doesn't want to go anywhere, but Dallas. And if he does, we'll be reading about him in the news.

 

[Little Jr]

I've been saying his agent will start the negotiations out at min cjs contract. People think just because it was a bad contract that his agent shouldn't ask for it. Lol that isn't his agent or dez's problem.

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

Me too, and I've been holding out for the last 25 years until they pay up.

Any day now I'm sure.

 

[CowboyRoy]

That's what espn nfl insiders just reported.

Trade him. A first and a third round pick. See ya later.

 

[Stash]

That's what espn nfl insiders just reported.

If that's in any way true, there's no point in bothering to negotiate anything.

Tag him for two years while looking for his successor.

 

[Little Jr]

Was it from a source familiar with the negotiation?

I have no clue.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Outside of CJ, who's contract is not worth what they are paying him, the highest salary paid to a WR is 12.8, which is the Franchise Tag for Dez. I'd just stick with the Tag and see what happens (assuming this report is true).

 

[DFWJC]

I've been saying his agent will start the negotiations out at min cjs contract. People think just because it was a bad contract that his agent shouldn't ask for it. Lol that isn't his agent or dez's problem.

Well...actually it is if they actually want that much.

 

[Tabascocat]

Adios in two years Dez if true.....IF true!

That figure has Oakland written all over it

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I've been saying his agent will start the negotiations out at min cjs contract. People think just because it was a bad contract that his agent shouldn't ask for it. Lol that isn't his agent or dez's problem.

I think it is. I agree that they are positioning here but that only works to a point. If you push it too far, it could be more attractive for Dallas to just trade him for what they can get out of him. I don't see that happening but that doesn't mean it couldn't.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Trade him. A first and a third round pick. See ya later.

Plus a boat load of cap savings.

 

[Nightman]

Well...actually it is if they actually want that much.

CJohnson was a fluke that won't happen again. He was one of the last players to get a rookie deal under the old terms.

His rookie deal was for 6/55m(Dez was 5/11.8m). His 2012 salary was a scheduled 14m with a 21m cap hit.

To franchise tag him it would've cost 21m for one year and 26m the next. That is 47m for 2 years.

When they signed him to an 7/113m deal with 48m guaranteed they got a relative bargain at 16m APY and 5 more years of contract rights.

Dez is due 13m and 15m or 28m total. That would put a 7/91m with 28m guaranteed in play as a comparison

 

[Little Jr]

Was it from a source familiar with the negotiation?

Jim Trotter is the one who said it

 

[Toruk_Makto]

If true....and we don't know that it is....but people should really learn about the art of negotiation.

 

[DFWJC]

Outside of CJ, who's contract is not worth what they are paying him, the highest salary paid to a WR is 12.8, which is the Franchise Tag for Dez. I'd just stick with the Tag and see what happens (assuming this report is true).

I think the teams that wrote the last 4 large contracts to WRs probably felt after 2-3 years later that they overpaid.
L Fitzgerald
C Johnson
M Wallace
V Jackson