10 million?

Lolz

 

Bye bye Jake

 

Thanks for the memories Jake.

 

10 million is fine. More is not.

 

We can start with this, Jake:

http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/...-eminence-of-the-left-tackle-and-other-myths/

 

Does he mean 10 mil over 2 years? :chuckle:

 

Really? How do you justify $2.0M per year more than twice straight All Pro Duane Brown?

 

See you later, Jake.
I pray you don't sign with NE for less money. :glare:

 

Because Jake Long could be better when healthy.

 

yeah, who cares about protecting your QB's blind side now that they installed those special rear-view helmet cams with built in crash sensors. :shifty:

 

And I could be a porn star with a bigger package.

 

But Jake Long hasn't been healthy for the last two seasons.

 

That's why... Could is not saying he will be and we would be paying him for it.

 

Better than 1st team All Pro Duane Brown?.... and enough to justify the extra 2 million?
<operative phrase of your post- "when healthy">

 

Long wants in the range of Joe Thomas money at 8 years/92 million...but with being a year older than JT was when he signed his deal in 2011, possibly 7 years/80 million.

 

is that really an issue when you're on the bottom?

 

No you can't. He was that good and it's entirely possible he could be again.

 

I do some of my best work on the bottom.

-that's what she said-

 

I didn't say it wasn't a risk.

 

Why can't I?
I'm better looking than Ron Jeremy.

 

Yes. Why are you repeating everything I'm saying?

 

It would be kind of ironic if he left here for Atlanta wouldn't it..........

 

he is breaking down. his knees are ****ed, he has shoulder problems. he gets beat by speed rushers. he is not worth 10 million dollars. i love what jake long did here for his first 3 seasons. you cannot go and spend that kind of money on a player that cannot stay on the field, or when he is on the field is getting beat time and time again.

 

I would keep him... My reason? His wife is HOT

 

Well the thing that sucks is that if we let him go then we have to spend at least a 2nd or 3rd rounder on a tackle. We've made a ton of big investments on the line, it would be a shame to have a number one pick not work out and be stuck spending high draft picks or big money on a FA, honestly it would be one of the worst draft picks we've ever had if he leaves or isn't good anymore, the number one overall on an OT? He should be an allpro for 10 years here if we spent that high a pick on a tackle.

 

Jake Long is hiiiiiigh as a mother****er.

 

Report: Jake Long wants “at least” $10 million annually

Can't spend that kind of money, regardless of position, when you have as many injuries as Jake has had recently.

 

I wonder if the Dolphins don't spend what they're looking at spending on Long on another free agent Tackle. There are seemingly some worthwhile guys.

 

$10 million with some injury protections stuck in the contract certainly sounds fair to me.

I'm actually encouraged by this rather than discouraged. Joe Thomas got 8 years, $92 million. It was reported before that Jake Long wants to be the best and part of being the best to him is getting paid like the best.

What I find interesting is this idea that you can't allocate that much money to him. What do you think we've been doing? $10 million a year would actually be a pay reduction compared with what he'd been making.

I see nothing wrong with some sort of deal that has an option in it to where you could cut him after one year and he'd have collected $12 million. And if you don't cut him, he gets the $10 million a year he wants.

 

Can you do cartwheels w/o the use of your arms?

 

wonder if Jake moving to the right side would reduce his risk of injury by switching the main physical stressors to the opposite side.

 

Yea 10million a year cap hit really isnt that bad. Looking at some of the other cap hits for OT this would be inline with top ten money. Like what's been said already, build injury protection into the contract and this is good for us

 

Thats exactly how I felt when we drafted him.Left tackles dont win games qbs do.I got killed on this site for suggesting we made a mistake and they said he will solidify the postion for the next 10 years..Guess what people 5 years later and bye bye jake.

 

I can see this coming down to a franchise tag situation.

 

Personally I think that until you know that Ryan Tannehill is that "franchise" guy (whatever that means, nowadays) you want to give him as much help as you can. We don't yet know if he's good enough to deal with a bad left tackle. We were 2-3 in the 5 games played without Jake Long, and the offense scored 15.4 points per game. Not exactly conclusive evidence to the contrary.

Down the road you know that Ryan Tannehill is your version of Russell Wilson, you start looking at how best to fit as much talent on the team as possible, and you've got Jake Long sitting there at left tackle making $10 million a year...OK, maybe we re-visit this and ditch him.

You can do it now, but you'd better franchise him and get something of value for him.

 

It could be 10 million for 3 years. I don't think it has to be 5/6 year contract. At the end of the 3 year deal, he'll be at 30. In line for one more big contract.