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Jake Long's market set?

Keeping this team with all its best players is going to be really, really tough in the coming seasons. With Long's extension coming up, Wake has to get paid, your two "stud" corners are going to want to get paid, either an extension/new contract for a reborn Henne, a massive contract for a free agent QB, or $ for a top pick (though less with rookie scale), there are going to be some cap issues for the Phins.

I feel like our window is NOW, while we have stud players that are playing for a lot less than they will be...
 
Omar keeps saying that Long met certain incentives that kicked in a 6th year to his rookie contract making him a free agent after 2013. I think this time next year he will get a similar extension that Thomas just got.
 
moksha said:
That's a lot of guaranteed $$$ for any OLmen in my book, obviously he deserves the best but that kind of money for even a LT sort of disturbs me.. but it looks like I'm alone on this.
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Your not alone; that's QB money for a LT.
 
He had a six year deal but met incentives that voided out the sixth year.
 
if he stays healthy this year and performs what he performs, he probably deserves QB money

guys this isnt just a pro bowler, this is the BEST linemen in the ENTIRE league.
 
Phins28 said:
Trade him for Matt Ryan or Ryan Mallett, you can win a Superbowl without a premier LT.
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And neither one of those are elite franchise QB's, especially not Mallett. What has he proved?

As for Matt Ryan, what's the big deal? What has he done to prove that he is an elite franchise QB? His TD-to-INT ratio has been pretty good during the past 3 years, but he also has one of the lowest yards-per-completion average in the league despite having one of the better receiving cores around him. Last season, only Mark Sanchez, Derek Anderson, Sam Bradford, and Jimmy Clausen had worse averages.

I'm not saying he's a bad QB, just saying that he hasn't proven to be all that. And please spare me the "he led the Falcons to an impressive record and the playoffs in 2 out of 3 seasons" crap. So what? Joe Flacco and Mark Sanchez have done that too, but are they elite franchise QB's? Hell, Jay Fiedler led the Dolphins to several playoff appearances a decade ago, was he all that great?

Until Ryan joins the ranks of Brady, Manning, Brees, Rivers, Rodgers or Roethlisberger, I wouldn't trade arguably the best LT in the league for him. Will Ryan get to that next level? Maybe. Personally, I don't think he will. I haven't seen enough from him to think he'll ever reach that level. If he does, great, you win. But as of today, he's not there and there is no guarantee he ever will be. On the other hand, Jake Long is already one of the best, if not the best, LT's in the game.
 
They have a bunch of players they're going to need to re-sign that are going to be expensive within the next couple of years. Vontae, S Smith, Jake, and Wake. Jake is going to get top 3 LT money or probably even end up the highest paid LT in the league, if Wake has another 10+ sack season then he's going to want premier pass rushing olb money, and its never cheap to sign good young cb's... oh, and then there's Solaia too. Miami is probably going to end up losing one or some of these guys cuz they can't afford to keep them all, I hope that doesn't happen but its unrealistic to think it can't happen.
 
outlawd2u said:
They have a bunch of players they're going to need to re-sign that are going to be expensive within the next couple of years. Vontae, S Smith, Jake, and Wake. Jake is going to get top 3 LT money or probably even end up the highest paid LT in the league, if Wake has another 10+ sack season then he's going to want premier pass rushing olb money, and its never cheap to sign good young cb's... oh, and then there's Solaia too. Miami is probably going to end up losing one or some of these guys cuz they can't afford to keep them all, I hope that doesn't happen but its unrealistic to think it can't happen.
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on the flip-side, we're probably going to rid ourselves off Vernon Carey's big contract and Will Allen over the next few years. but i agree, i don't think we'll be able to keep everyone around.
 
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