Popeyejones":2jlhiq3h said:Brahn":2jlhiq3h said:Wouldn't the Hawks be in a better situation considering they could just franchise Wilson 2 times like you theorized the Niners doing? Neither team will do that but if anything the Hawks could push the QB salary 1 year farther then the Niners could. The Niners are already currently paying Kaep more then the Hawks pay Wilson based on draft position.
Sorry, I'm realizing my post was unclear. Two points of clarification:
1) Conventional wisdom is that the Hawks will have to deal with paying Wilson what he deserves a year after the 9ers have to deal with paying Kaep what he deserves* because Wilson was drafted a year after. My post was a thought experiment about if they might have to deal with it in the same year, rather than it being staggered. Not suggesting this IS what will happen, just thinking through the thought experiment of if there is a scenario in which it could happen.
2) I'm talking about letting either guy play out his contract and then franchising him for one year, not franchising either of them for two years.
This post could get really long from this point forward, or be summed up in three sentences. I'm going with the three sentence version.![]()
Sentence 1 & 2: Politically it's considerably harder to use the franchise tag for players that there aren't questions about, and for players that are unarguably worth a long term contract. It's what the Saints and Packers had to deal with for Brees and Rodgers, and what the Saints are now dealing with for Graham.
Sentence 2 : Because there are less questions about Wilson's game and because he won the Super Bowl, it will be politically harder for the Hawks to franchise Wilson than for the 9ers to franchise Kaepernick, meaning a scenario is possible in which both teams will have to deal with paying their quarterbacks at around the same time (basically sometime between after the Super Bowl and Week 8 of the year after the next).
Hope that makes more sense.![]()
*Not debating what the differential, if any, in what they'll get is, although as of right now I think we have to assume Wilson will get more due to the reaons in "sentence 2."
Fair enough.
On the outside or better then not chance of Harbaugh moving to HC a new team. Do you see a scenario where the Niners move on from Kaep with a new staff in place? I know a lot of it would be based on how well he performs next year. Lets say he has the same year as this year, do you think the new staff would view him as the franchise QB?