Jaguars plan to offer Center Alex Mack 5 year deal

[The Franchise]

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter 10m

By Friday, Jacksonville will sign Cleveland's transition-tagged C Alex Mack to a 5-year offer sheet the Browns will have five days to match.

Alex Mack's 5-year deal with Jacksonville will be designed to make it as difficult as possible for the Browns to match, per sources.

Sources close to Alex Mack say he wants to play this contract in Jacksonville, not Cleveland, which opted not to give him long-term deal.

[OldSchool]

Jesus . . . way to cripple your franchise. I could see spending that kind of coin on a LT, but a Center? Mack is a great player, but that's way too much for that position.

[BossChief]

Stupid and ineffective teams do stupid things.

KC, Jacksonville and Cleveland always go through the revolving door of spending high picks and lots of money on offensive linemen...only to eventually replace them with high picks and big money.

Jacksonville traded away Eugene Monroe for peanuts and drafted Joeckel and tried to give Alex Mack a silly contract even though they have NOTHING in terms of skill position players.

The Chiefs let Albert walk and are replacing him with the first overall pick. Last year we had 2 first rounders, 2 second rounders and 2 third rounders on the OL and let a first and third rounder walk for nothing and will most likely replace them with more premium picks.

Cleveland has spent multiple firsts on their OL and have NOTHING in terms of QB or RB to block for...and would have jettisoned Gordon if someone would have let them. Their top two caps hits are Joe Thomas and Alex Mack, totaling 22 million in cap space. That's just beyond stupid.

Look no further as to why these 3 teams are some of the most futile in the NFL.

[Molitoth]

LOLOLOLOL

Wow some franchises are incredibly stupid.

[The Franchise]

Dumb thing is....is he gets like $18 million guaranteed over the next 2 years and then he can void the contract.....AND he has a no trade clause.

[mcaj22]

not that i wish injury on anyone but if he gets hurt they have a 9 million dollar center sitting at home and still have to play a scrub anyway.

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by Cochise

Jacksonville got better as the season went on last year. They were .500 in the second half of the season, granted against weak competition, but I think Bradley has them headed in the right direction. Their play was improving.

I see them the same if not worse. Actually worse. They beat houston twice, Tennessee and cleveland. Not sure if RB is an improvement, could be. WR is iffy with the flakiness. I see them being the worse team next year.

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Dumb thing is....is he gets like $18 million guaranteed over the next 2 years and then he can void the contract.....AND he has a no trade clause.

And the contract says he cannot be franchised or transitioned tagged.

So if he voids it, does that mess with the bonus? if not that is 13 million a year.

[bowener]

So wait... Cleveland matched the offer?

[Sassy Squatch]

Originally Posted by bowener

So wait... Cleveland matched the offer?

Yeah