Below The Belt: Jake Ferguson's new deal

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00:00jake ferguson has signed a four-year 52 million dollar deal that's 13 million annually which is

00:19the seventh highest paid tight end on average in the nfl and i think this is absolutely a

00:26a jalen smith lyle collins type strategy of just hey we'd love to get a deal done if this deal makes

00:33sense for us so does the timing because now we can just say oh look i mean we've we've got to get

00:38you done but that should factor in zero to handing out contracts in terms of yeah you're it's you're

00:46faking they're faking try to fake pressure leverage like they he has leverage you have leverage too

00:53you don't need to fake the leverage oh yeah i'm not i'm not saying it's it's a strategy that's

00:57works or is correct i'm saying i think they are absolutely approaching this with the idea of

01:01that's one of the things they can do is they can say well look we just had to give jake first and

01:0513 million instead of just saying we'll replace with a cheaper tight end a rookie tight end like

01:08that's money that's on the books now right that we have to worry about my thing is like that tactic

01:13doesn't work on the top line guys their money is their money they're getting their money regardless

01:21you know that works on there's a jake first no i think i think it's an october i think it's an

01:26overall strategy and i'm not saying it's gonna work or that it's a good one but i think it isn't

01:30it's that's one part of it the other part of it is we'll introduce doubt that do we even want you

01:35here we'll do this we'll do that now we're gonna now you're gonna start feeling like well if i really

01:39want to be here i think they think i think the cowboys think michael wants to be here regardless

01:46and i think they think yeah he is brand seven he doesn't understand these things and so he knows

01:50more than anybody else he puts extra value in being a cowboy he knows that more than anybody

01:54all these players we've tried to sell the idea of like the value of being a cowboy that it hasn't

01:58worked to like get a discount this is the guy we might be able to lean on for