It doesn’t matter what I or anyone else wants.
He wants to get paid (extended) now. That’s what matters.
It would be cool if he was alright coming here and waiting on an extension, but if his primary goal is to get paid now, which is the basis of all this, I can’t imagine him putting himself at risk playing another season being underpaid (in his mind).
You’re doing yourself a disservice by waiting for an extension. All you’d be doing is costing yourself in contract terms via cap inflation and your losing flexibility by not using his rookie deal to average down his extension.
For example, he’s due about $13.5 million over the last 2 years of his rookie deal. He’s due $3.6 million this year and $9.86 on his 5th year option next year. Even if we disregard contract inflation, let’s look at the difference between signing him to a 4/$60m deal this year and next.
If you sign him this year, his 4 year extension adds to his remaining 2/$13.5 million for a total contract value of 6 years and $73.5 million, for a contract AAV of $12.25 million.
If you wait until next year, that same 4 year $60 million dollar extension in top of his 5th year option is a 5 year $69.86, or $13.97 million AAV. And that’s disregarding that extending him next year probably costs more in new money.
If you know you want a guy long term, it is in your best interest to sign him as soon as you can. We’ve already seen waiting hurt the Cowboys with Dak and Amari, so why do fans continuously insist on waiting on extensions, especially since Adams is much more a sure thing than Dak and Cooper.