Dwayne Bowe may get tagged again

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

It stops after you get a decent season out of him.

We're 0 games removed from a season where a back injury seriously compromised him for 1/2 the year and eventually shut him down.

I want to see him come back next season and show that it wasn't a permanent injury. I've said it before, but back injuries are worse for O-lineman than anything else they can have. Knees heal, arms/elbows heal. Those back injuries always seem to get worse and worse.

I've seen too many O-Lineman brought down young by bad backs to be comfortable assuming he's sound based on a physical.

Then we're back to my original assertion:

We should try to tag Albert rather than Bowe.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Then we're back to my original assertion:

We should try to tag Albert rather than Bowe.

Agreed. That's where I've been for awhile now. And also, tagging Albert would be about $4 million cheaper than tagging Bowe, which would be money we could frontload into Bowe's deal to make it quasi-guaranteed and sweeten the pot for him a bit.

It makes all the sense in the world to tag Albert and extend Bowe. But like I said, if Bowe makes it absolutely impossible to sign him long-term (it takes 2 to tango), then Bowe is the more critical of the 2 and he's the one you tag.