Tag or No Tag for Saquon Barkley
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00:00 Tag or no tag for Saquon Barkley.
00:03 Now, if you've been listening to me and reading me,
00:08 you probably know that I have been kind of dug in
00:12 a little bit on tagging Saquon,
00:15 because, you know, Saquon to me
00:20 is probably one of the few players
00:21 that you can consider touchable,
00:24 meaning, you know, he's not somebody,
00:26 he's not like a Dexter Lawrence.
00:28 Dexter Lawrence is untouchable.
00:29 You're not gonna trade him.
00:31 You're not gonna trade an Andrew Thomas.
00:33 Saquon Barkley is a guy I think, you know,
00:36 they would consider moving if the price was right.
00:39 Now, you can't move a guy unless he has a signed contract.
00:43 So my thinking was, okay,
00:46 if you don't get a deal done with him,
00:47 and it's clear that both sides do wanna get a deal done,
00:51 do you put the franchise tag on him?
00:54 And then, you know, continue to see
00:56 if you can get something done,
00:57 at which point if you have a certain date
00:59 that you cut things off, you say, okay,
01:01 we can't get a deal done.
01:02 Saquon, you've got our permission,
01:04 go work out a trade with another team.
01:07 And, you know, if we like it, we'll trade you,
01:09 you'll get your deal, we'll get our comp picks and so forth.
01:13 The one negative to that, obviously,
01:17 is that the Giants are gonna lose
01:18 about $12 million right off the bat
01:20 if they have to put the tag on him.
01:23 They can't really afford to do that
01:27 if they're going to address offensive line,
01:29 if they're gonna get a veteran at cornerback,
01:32 if they're going to sign a veteran quarterback.
01:35 You know, there's a lot that the Giants have to do.
01:37 So to tie up 12 million in the running back
01:42 that may or may not be on this roster,
01:44 the more I think about it, the less sense it makes.
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