I was so excited for draft day, I couldn't really sleep.. It starts later at 8am but I was up at 5:30... This was great news to wake up to!
$260m/$185m guaranteed, just a bit over Hurts $255m/$179m. When Jalen signed that, I wondered if it would help this deal, and turns out it did. Hurts became the new target, not Watson. The Browns deal is so out there, it has to be ignored as an outlier. They destroyed their team to get that guy.
He aimed for the highest money possible, didn't get it, but I am so glad he didn't get all mad about it, and stuck with the team. I always thought both sides saw it as "just doing business" and still respected each other.
The way he went about it was different than most players, and fans got extremely bitchy about that. You should see the Ravens subreddit, it's unbearable. At first I would say just let things play out, this is mostly media turning it into a shit show, but it got so bad I just stopped going there. It's just a guy shooting his shot, missing, and still getting a huge deal.
I am over the moon about this!
Looking forward to seeing more moves