Analysis: What should Lamar Jackson do now? Here’s one suggestion.
“It’s pretty crazy to me that no one is even talking to him,” said one general manager, whose team does not need a quarterback and who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to create problems with other organizations. “The Falcons. The Jets. The Colts. None of them. Aaron Rodgers has a better market than him, right? Carolina gives up all of that to move up to [the first draft pick] without even talking to him.
, putting more pressure on the Ravens and pushing back on the narrative that teams should refrain from trying to sign him to an offer sheet that Baltimore owner Steve Bisciotti will simply match. The agents suggested variations on a theme to nudge the process along — or at least to expose teams for pretending Jackson isn’t part of the quarterback marketplace by creating paper trails and data points.
It would be far more difficult for franchises to blow off a big-time agent who will represent future big-time free agents and first-round picks than to dismiss Jackson and his mother, even if they are still asking for record guarantees. If nothing else, there would be documentation about which teams completely ignored such overtures, which quickly dismissed them — and why.
“If I reach out to all 31 teams,” as another agent put it, “with this player as my client and I can’t get a meeting for him, I think that speaks for itself.”Multiple agents suggested they would use the post-Washington Kirk Cousins template as a guide in seeking an offer sheet: a three-year, fully guaranteed deal — in Jackson’s case, worth $50 million per year, plus incentives, with no-trade and no-franchise-tag clauses attached.
Given how sideways things have gotten between these sides, such a deal wouldn’t be perfect for the team or the player. But it’s a relatively small price to avoid 17 weeks of Tyler Huntley or Anthony Brown at quarterback, it would keep the Ravens viable, and maybe — just maybe — it could build a bridge to a long-term solution.
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