Joey Porter Jr contract negotiations

This is exactly why it pays for players to wait as long as they can.

I don't know if Porter will get paid more or less than Gonzalez. But it sounds like Gonzalez is going to push the market forward by a fair amount. So Porter will get paid more after the Gonzalez contract than he would have if he took a deal based on the contracts that were on top of the CB leaderboard at the beginning of the offseason.

It's almost always best for good to very good players to wait as long as they can to either (1) reset the market themselves or (2) benefit from another good to very good player resetting the market.

It's almost always better for teams to sign guys early (like we did with Fitz). But the player also has to choose to sign early. I was pretty surprised when Minkah mad that decision. I figured that he would wait (at least close to) as long as possible like Watt has.

Maybe the only player this doesn't work for is Cam. Because the team just knows that Cam will do anything he can to help the team. He doesn't have it in him to put himself before the team (even in negotiations).

 

Christian Gonzalez was there for the taking and we took Broderick Jones.

 

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