Re: Jimmy Graham demanding 12 million per season?
 

I would be happy with that if it were back loaded and had a lower guaranteed money. First year cap impact should be around 5-6.5 mil then we could cut/restructure in the later years when the dead money would be less detrimental (just like W.Smith).

Re: Jimmy Graham demanding 12 million per season?
 

let him walk...
I don't care if he leads inTD...

Re: Jimmy Graham demanding 12 million per season?
 

So let me get this straight - We're fortunate enough to have the best TE in the game on our team, and some people want to trade him away for a couple of draft picks that may or may not pan out?

This can't be real life.

Re: Jimmy Graham demanding 12 million per season?
 

You couldn't be more on target. Graham is a TD machine and will get better each year. Trade him? Drop him? I don't get it.

Re: Jimmy Graham demanding 12 million per season?
 

With what he is asking I do not see it being anything less than a Gronk contract, E.g. 8 years to stretch it out. Gronk was 55m/ stretched out over 8 years with a 8m signing bonus with a first year cap hit of 5.5m.

Adding 5m and cutting two years off that model will hurt cap..

Re: Jimmy Graham demanding 12 million per season?
 

Well just to be fair they're also eliminating a 12 million cap hit along with him, or rather they're freeing up 12 million of cap space AND getting a couple draft picks.

So you have...

A-Jimmy at 12 million per season (although we know that number will come down)

--OR--

B-Two high draft picks, AND 12 million per season to spend on other free-agents.

An example of option B would be two 1st round picks AND OC Alex Mack AND another CB like Keenan Lewis.

Re: Jimmy Graham demanding 12 million per season?
 

Those are two draft picks that may not pan out. There's also no guarantee we get Mack or another top flight CB. We'd have to compete with other teams for those players as well.

Yeah, I will definitely choose Graham.

Re: Jimmy Graham demanding 12 million per season?
 

We have had the #1 offense for many years before Jimmy, we will continue to have the #1 offense without him.

Jimmy may be priceless to many teams, but he is not priceless to us. We are successful because of the system. He is not worth 10mil per year to us, but I wont argue his market value is less than that.

Re: Jimmy Graham demanding 12 million per season?
 

We would love additional modalities such as the ultimate-blocking-machine and the ultimate-show-up-at-big-games-machine to complement the TD machine.:bng:

Re: Jimmy Graham demanding 12 million per season?
 

Exactly. I wish I would've seen the machine in the playoffs. Or against New England. Or the Jets. Or Carolina. Etc..