Mike Evans and Bucs hit snag

[JetsFanNick12]

https://x.com/mysportsupdate/status/1697459016325054506?s=46&t=udZRhpVkHcvr-i5jcK_PWQ
 

Send em a 3rd rounder and pay him what he wants !

[Bobby816]

4 minutes ago, JetsFanNick12 said:

https://x.com/mysportsupdate/status/1697459016325054506?s=46&t=udZRhpVkHcvr-i5jcK_PWQ
 

Send em a 3rd rounder and pay him what he wants !

I've wanted to do something else at WR most this offseason and have mentioned Evans several times. So obviously I'm for this.

 

But have to be careful with this. He wants one last pay day for multiple years, he's 30 now and has battled some injuries.

He has been a team 1st guy and has moved his money around so TB can try and win SBs. But that's lead now to him getting like 23mill this year bc he's restructured so much the last couple years. That this year they finally have to pay him all that money.

 

I'd offer a mid round pick and sign him to a deal through next season. That's how long we pretty much know we'll for sure have AR. So it's giving Evans that same opportunity he has had for the last few years with Brady now with us. Not really interested in going longer than this year and next year. Not a lot of WRs his size are still playing at a high level at 32-33 years old.

[JiFtheOracle]

Fun fact: Mike Evan is the only player in NFL history to have a 1k receiving yards in his first 8 seasons.

 

[Dunnie]

Two year mtg deal ... buy a couple years of his service then lose him to FA.

Send them either a 3rd or one of our hundred second tier DLinemen 

Edited September 1, 2023 by Dunnie

[GangGreened]

Bucs should tank anyway, Baker and Bowles? Just blow it up now.

[Barton]

The bucs really should trade him. They aren’t going anywhere the next few years. This guy could put the jets over the top. 

[varjet]

2 minutes ago, Barton said:

The bucs really should trade him. They aren’t going anywhere the next few years. This guy could put the jets over the top. 

This is really the classic example of how a contending team picks up a missing piece like a WR.

• Team in the other Conference.
• Team in the other Conference is tanking.
• Contending team has some cap space.
• Contending team still has future draft picks that it has not mortgaged its future for. 

Sign him for two guaranteed years.   Push some cap hit beyond that.  Send the Bucs a third round pick.  Let the Bucs tank this year.  

[CanadaSteve]

You can only make this work for a couple of years while Garrett Wilson is on his rookie deal.  You can't pay two WR's mega dollars, especially one on the wrong side of 30.

 

[Larz]

Much more realistic than Adams and the perfect X

[Bobby816]

2 minutes ago, Larz said:

Much more realistic than Adams and the perfect X

More than 0

[Jethead]

Would be the cherry on top of the sundae.

No way I would give up a 3rd round pick. 5th round maybe, prefer a player, but all the $ he wants.

[Jimmy 2 Times]

1 hour ago, JiF said:

Fun fact: Mike Evan is the only player in NFL history to have a 1k receiving yards in his first 8 seasons.

 

For now…. 

[Jetsfan80]

40 minutes ago, CanadaSteve said:

You can only make this work for a couple of years while Garrett Wilson is on his rookie deal.  You can't pay two WR's mega dollars, especially one on the wrong side of 30.

 

Well we’re in luck then:  We’d only really be looking to acquire him primarily for the next couple years!

[Barry McCockinner]

C'mon JD, you know you want to.

I get that E. Moore and Hopkins didn't fit the player type the jets are building with. That C patch on Evans should be appealing.

This would be an excellent addition.

[Larz]

He can eabod for 3/80 but that obviously could be wild speculation 

 

[Jet Nut]

1 hour ago, JiF said:

Fun fact: Mike Evan is the only player in NFL history to have a 1k receiving yards in his first 8 seasons.

 

Let the CMar legacy continue

[carlito1171]

Make it happen Tanny!! 

[jvill 51]

 

 

[jvill 51]

[BigRy56]

This move would make way too much sense for the Jets

[Jethead]

Would be like adding Neal Young to Crosby, Stills & Nash.

[The Crusher]

1 hour ago, JiF said:

Fun fact: Mike Evan is the only player in NFL history to have a 1k receiving yards in his first 8 seasons.

 

Only because Sauce was still in middle school during those seasons. 

[Sperm Edwards]

21 minutes ago, Jetsfan80 said:

Well we’re in luck then:  We’d only really be looking to acquire him primarily for the next couple years!

He wants Kupp’s extension deal for himself, so that’d be 3 more guaranteed seasons, plus part of a 4th if he gets ~$75MM fully guaranteed:

2023 $13MM (existing contract, becomes guaranteed with an extension). Likely will have the salary number adjusted, but that dollar amount will still be guaranteed however that’s done.

2024-26 (3 year Kupp-like extension) depends on how much salary/pay is structured per season, but it’d be another $60-65MM fully guaranteed in the end. Barring unusual front loading nobody does, that’ll take at least several million into 2026 (contract year 4) when he’ll be 33. Probably a lot more than that in reality, if/when an eventual restructure is done 1-2 years in that lowers the base salary by converting it to bonus that moves half or most of it to dummy/void years tracked onto the end.

[varjet]

Other than the Rodgers trade, where the Jets appeared to give up too much in draft picks to pick up a highly paid QB, JD has been pretty restrained with his moves.  That is reflected in the fact that the Jets still have so much cap space left for a team supposedly “going for it.”

But you can even say the Rodgers trade was a better deal now because of what Rodgers agreed to be paid.  

In most but not necessarily all case, teams competing for a Super Bowl have to “mortgage their future” for the missing pieces.   I think the Jets need to do that, and Mike Evans could be that piece.  

But he is 10 years in.  I would only pay him for 2 years, spread over 3-4.  

[Barry McCockinner]

“It’s truly an unselfish thing,” Douglas said about Rodgers taking a big pay cut. “It’s going to give us great flexibility moving forward and allow us to be aggressive if other opportunities present themselves.

“It’s almost like an unspoken thing, there’s a reason why you’re doing this. It’s going to give us great flexibility moving forward.”

[Barry McCockinner]

24 minutes ago, Sperm Edwards said:

He wants Kupp’s extension deal for himself, so that’d be 3 more guaranteed seasons, plus part of a 4th if he gets ~$75MM fully guaranteed:

2023 $13MM (existing contract, becomes guaranteed with an extension). Likely will have the salary number adjusted, but that dollar amount will still be guaranteed however that’s done.

2024-26 (3 year Kupp-like extension) depends on how much salary/pay is structured per season, but it’d be another $60-65MM fully guaranteed in the end. Barring unusual front loading nobody does, that’ll take at least several million into 2026 (contract year 4) when he’ll be 33. Probably a lot more than that in reality, if/when an eventual restructure is done 1-2 years in that lowers the base salary by converting it to bonus that moves half or most of it to dummy/void years tracked onto the end.

[FlightBoyz]

This is a No brainer for the Jets. Pull the trigger. 

[Larz]

 

[Jetsplayer21]

59 minutes ago, Jethead said:

Would be the cherry on top of the sundae.

No way I would give up a 3rd round pick. 5th round maybe, prefer a player, but all the $ he wants.

They won’t take a 5th rounder alone. Wonder if Zach Wilson has any appeal to them given their qb situation. Not like they are going to be playing for anything. 

[Maynard13]

1 hour ago, Larz said:

He can eabod for 3/80 but that obviously could be wild speculation 

 

3 years 80M. 

Woody to JD: Yeah you sign him to that and I'll break you like a pretzel.

[Barry McCockinner]

1 hour ago, jvill 51 said:

 

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[SAM SAM HE'S OUR MAN]

[jvill 51]

11 minutes ago, Barry McCockinner said:

The most important part of that letter doesn't show up unless you click through to X.

You're right. Edited to include the whole letter.

[TuscanyTile2]

1 hour ago, Jethead said:

Would be like adding Neal Young to Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Neil.  But alone he's better than all 3 of those guys combined.  This is his tribute to AR:

 

 

[Reasonable Jets Fan]

1 hour ago, Larz said:

He can eabod for 3/80 but that obviously could be wild speculation 

 

Holy ****... 27 Mill a year for a 30+ year old WR... NO ******* WAY