blargo Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Looks like Clay got the transition tag Adam Schefter ✔ @AdamSchefter Follow A transition tag sighting! Dolphins placed transition tag on TE Charles Clay, per a league source. TE transition tag is $7.071 million.
dave mcbride Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 @AlbertBreer: The transition tag for Dolphins TE Charles Clay (@AdamSchefter 1st reported) is officially filed. @AlbertBreer: Transition tags have been used sparsely since the Steve Hutchinson/poison pill deal. Matching rights, no comp. Clay's tender is $7.071M. Damn. He would have been a good addition.
YoloinOhio Posted March 2, 2015 Author Posted March 2, 2015 Damn. He would have been a good addition.bills can make an offer
dave mcbride Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 bills can make an offer Even if they do, they're not gonna win. The Dolphins want to keep him, and they will.
Jamie Nails Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Might be worth an offer: Drive up the price on a division rival or land him if they don't match and take a player from a division rival. 7 mill per seems high though.
eball Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Even if they do, they're not gonna win. The Dolphins want to keep him, and they will. Can teams get creative and put terms in their offers the tagging team won't (or can't) match, or did the league do away with poison pills?
Deranged Rhino Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Can teams get creative and put terms in their offers the tagging team won't (or can't) match, or did the league do away with poison pills? Doesn't matter if they did away with them or not, as Belichick likes to say, "if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying".
LeviF Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Can teams get creative and put terms in their offers the tagging team won't (or can't) match, or did the league do away with poison pills? Did away with them in 2011, I think.
The Crowing Rooster Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 @AroundTheNFL: Report: Bills "taking a hard look at" TE Charles Clay http://t.co/hEkOgAJKBW Report: Charles Clay on Buffalo Bills' radar the dolphin just tran taged him
YoloinOhio Posted March 2, 2015 Author Posted March 2, 2015 7 mil is a lot for him. I like his versatility but he doesn't really excel in any one facet. Bills will probably target someone else.,
WhitewalkerInPhilly Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 My only consolation is that's a **** ton of cash to keep him, which digs them even deeper into cap hell. He might be their only receiver.
YoloinOhio Posted March 2, 2015 Author Posted March 2, 2015 (edited) Seems like the Fish panicked @pecrawleynfl: If Bills pursue and match for Clay, his $7M would make him Buffalo's third-highest paid player in 2015. http://t.co/0SXRk3Xnom My only consolation is that's a **** ton of cash to keep him, which digs them even deeper into cap hell. He might be their only receiver.Landry And Wallace if they can't trade him Edited March 2, 2015 by YoloinOhio
NoSaint Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 i mean, i feel like a lot of people outlined that itd probably be around 7m to get him, but it took people seeing it officially to sway the opinion? while you cant do a poison pill, the bills could structure it heavy up front to really hurt the dolphins (think big salary low signing bonus to maximize year one cap hit)
WhitewalkerInPhilly Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Landry And Wallace if they can't trade him Are you particularly frightened of Landry? Wallace is good, but not elite. I honestly cannot think of any team that would pay him almost ten million dollars this year. I would be more than happy to have him be the albatross around their necks. And that still doesn't answer how they are going to afford to pay their draft picks. At this point, most likely it's going to be cutting a very good veteran player to give themselves some breathing room. Hey, I'm looking for positives.
YoloinOhio Posted March 2, 2015 Author Posted March 2, 2015 Even if they do, they're not gonna win. The Dolphins want to keep him, and they will.Can they match a huge offer? I know they have cut a few guys, but they are not in good shape cap wise and still need to sign Odrick (plus Revis, of course)
eball Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 i mean, i feel like a lot of people outlined that itd probably be around 7m to get him, but it took people seeing it officially to sway the opinion? while you cant do a poison pill, the bills could structure it heavy up front to really hurt the dolphins (think big salary low signing bonus to maximize year one cap hit) I hear ya...
purple haze Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 (edited) Even if they do, they're not gonna win. The Dolphins want to keep him, and they will. Bills don't have to sign him for 7 mil/year. Dolphins have only committed to 1 year at 7mil. That doesn't mean they want to pay, say 6 million per year over the course of a 24 million contract. Bills offer 4 years/ 24 million, Dolphins might not match. The killer is the up to one week the Phins would get to match. Edited March 2, 2015 by purple haze
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