Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Come on. This is your take?
He's looking longer term and much more money. He also had an injured calf. He will play in game #1. Ready to go. He's not a free agent. We just did him a solid. To make him more happy. Maybe he will sign longer term with us because he's slightly more happy. Or somewhere else for a longer deal and more money. He did what he could in a non contract year. Honestly Jennings is kind of the winner. He was not a FA, just did a deal and still they gave him more with incentives. He will making bigger money after the year is out and he hits true free agency.
I'm not saying anything of that
I'm saying that after the reports saying that we was demanding +20M per season with the mighty Drew Rosenhaus as his agent and using his calf as an excuse to holdin he just came to practice for a raise of 3.5M.
It's clear that the team won this from a financial standpoint (duh!) but now he missed TC and pre-season only to settle for a minimal raise.
Deebo, Bosa and Aiyuk were almost non-factors on the field after their negotiations because all the practice they missed but at least they got the bag but now Jennings also is gonna be almost a non-factor at least for the first half of the season hurting the team......and he only got 3.5M and he still is gonna be a free agent and we know he isn't going to replicate his production of last year hurting his chances of getting a big contract next season.
The team won this negotiation from a financial standpoint but both the team and Jennings lost from an on-field production standpoint.