Such a great mindset . . . guy puts his heart and soul into a team for 4 years, does not hold out at all, makes 3.5 million in those 4 years, earns the right to free agency and now people get up in arms because like every other NFL player he has earned the right to a big pay day.
If a team lets a quality player like Jarvis hit free agency, he will get paid, it is up to the team to make that decision.
Like I said in another thread, you probably could of given Juice a Doug Baldwin like deal last year which would of put him in the 5 years/57.5 million dollar range. (11.5 million AAV)
Instead if you give him 4 years/56 million (14 million AAV) this year + the rookie deal he played on for 1 million in 2017 . . . it equals out to 5 years/57 million. (11.4 AAV)
So in the end it isn't much of a difference from a contract perspective.
That is ABSOLUTELY the way you have to look at it and I am sorry if people cannot grasp that concept. Miami took their savings in 2017 and they had the leverage to not pay Jarvis so if anything happened to him longterm they would never have to pay him. Jarvis took all the risk so absolutely he deserves to get paid and if Miami wants to be perceived as this first class organization that handles their business with players and draft picks . . . . they would understand this and get a deal worked out, or they can continue to develop draft picks only to lose them in 4/5 years when they enter their primes.
New England gave an injury prone Gronk an extension extremely early and got savings longterm but they could of let him play it out and it would of gotten expensive but they would of saved in the short term. It is how deals are done and the overall tenure of the player needs to be considered . . . with what he would of gotten and what the team saved by extending early or not extending until FA.
