Sauce($20.1 million), Garrett ($16.8M), and JJ ($13.4M). So we are not offering any long term deals at this point.
They had until next week to make a decision on this, so it was for sure going to happen As far as Sauce goes, the Texans already set the market with Stingley. This should be easy. Same position, drafted 1 spot before him. The Jets should offer Sauce the very same deal! 3 years/$90 mill but the extension has the 5th year option built in. So, they have Stingley for 5 years. His rookie contract in 25, the 5th year option in 26 (~$20mil) and then the 3 years/90mil
I still feel like Sauce is a perfect trade piece. He wasn't trending up the last year and didn't seem worth top dollar. If he could tackle - maybe.
There could be some teams that would splurge for him. Selling lower than he could have gotten last offseason is probably a better idea than keeping him for one more season and losing him to FA.
I think the player is a good player…not putting too much stock in last year’s performance when the coaching staff was disintegrated and blown up…I think the entire team lost focus and it showed. I think with good coaching he should be back to being a pro-bowl / all-pro type player again … yes he’s not the most physical guy but in today’s league, if you have a corner that can shut down guys, you keep him. I’m glad we are exercising the options on all three guys…the only one I’m a bit worried about honestly is JJ coming off an Achilles…that injury will take time to heal enough for a player who relies on an explosive get-off…he may not be back to what he was this year
I’d like to see what Sauce can do in a man to man defense. He played Richard Sherman’s position in the cover 3 and can’t tackle/doesn’t attack the ball coming forward at all. He was good at it, but he wasn’t an X-factor like Sherman because it was a poor fit to make him affect games. You don’t have to tackle as much in man to man coverage and you can attack the ball in the air going backwards.
