Pending free agent wide receiver Jarvis Landry has told those close to him that he is not optimistic he’ll reach a long-term deal with the Dolphins, according to Adam Beasley of the Miami Herald.
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Landry’s contract status has long been the subject of scrutiny in Miami, but the Dolphins didn’t formally exchange contract offers until December. Miami has yet to counter Landry’s latest ask, which is reportedly in the neighborhood of $14MM annually with $30MM in guarantees. The Dolphins have publicly questioned Landry during negotiations, while Landry has in turn called the talks “disrespectful.”
“He’s a Dolphin, he was drafted here, he’s been productive,” Dolphins executive Mike Tannenbaum said at the Senior Bowl. “[Head coach] Adam [Gase] has used him and he’s produced and he’s gotten better. As the three of us said, we want sustainability. We want to keep as many of our own players, within reason. Draft and develop them. But you can’t keep them all. That’s part of the system that we all live in.”
On the field in 2017, Landry topped his touchdown total from the 2015-16 seasons combined by scoring nine times, but he still didn’t get down the field with any regularity. In fact, his yards per reception was at a career-low of 8.8, down from 12.1 a year ago. Football Outsiders ranked Landry just 59th among 86 qualifiers in DVOA, a metric that grades a receiver on a per-play basis.
As such, league sources tell Beasley that Landry will struggle to reach the $14MM threshold, as that salary range is dominated by outside receivers such as A.J. Green, Davante Adams, and Julio Jones. While Miami does have the option of using the franchise tag on Landry, such a tender would cost more than $16MM.
Come to Foxboro!!! Would be perfect fit with a little less volume but take contract to finish out Brady’s career with him. He will get you paid in few years.
Understand players these days value money over winning not many top players will take a reduced contract with NE to win. He already said he wants the cash NE will not dish it out lets be serious mate..
Hmmm ask Gilmore if they won’t dish out cash. As they proved for a top flight player that can fit the schemes they will. If the coach doesn’t believe Landry would fit Patriots wouldn’t be a player.
And get you a ring
Only if you’re willing to sell out your morals and your values by learning how to cheat to win games! Sure, then go to the Patriots!
Yea! If you have no problem selling out your morals
and values ! This will probably get censored again. Can’t say anything negative about the Pats. Kraft must line more pockets than I thought!
Bears…4 years, crazy money, 11 wins
agree we need him
It doesn’t even matter if we overpay, our receivers are easily the worst in nfl history…we need him and a first round receiver and Meredith healthy, on paper and in dreams that sounds like an actual nfl caliber receiving core with decent upside
I think the Pats are more likely to try to resign Amendola to compliment Edelman… just seems unnecessary to spend even $8mil on Landry when they just simply don’t have to.
I’d love to see my 9ers go get this guy. Garçon, Landry, Goodwin and Taylor would be a nice a pretty damn good set of receivers for Jimmy G to throw to. We got a ton of cap space and I don’t think WR is a huge need but I’d love to see them get this guy or another good WR.
I know there is interest from the Raiders in Landry don’t know if they have talked money but there is an intrest