Packers, Finley leaning towards long-term deal, agent says

[Pugger]

Tag value for O-line is projected to be $9.4 million. Would they really want to pay Wells that much?

What do the other O linemen make?

[woodbuck27]

Tag value for O-line is projected to be $9.4 million. Would they really want to pay Wells that much?

Go back to 2004. What became of our OL immediately after that loss of talent to FA?

Now we are looking at a center and not two talented guards. How much do you value Wells over Finley is another consideration all together.

[Joemailman]

What do the other O linemen make?

Not that much. http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/green-bay-packers/

[Brandon494]

Look..this guy has unbelievable talent and a 2 cent head. Snake met him drinking...just a punk...and the tally goes to 2 gals I know he's cheated on his wife with in the past two years. I can handle T.O. in his prime, but at least T.O. was elite on the field. Let him go..Ya..we wanna save the tag for Flynn for a trade for draft picks...bet we sign Finley and he sucks after the money else we'd have locked him up.

Dude give me a break, you don't know any girls that hooked up with Finley. Sounds to me that he brushed off a drunk fan at the bar and someone took it the wrong way.

[Zool]

Dude give me a break, you don't know any girls that hooked up with Finley. Sounds to me that he brushed off a drunk fan at the bar and someone took it the wrong way.

You can't know that. I bet people probably said the exact same thing about Favre back in the mid 90's.

Finley needs lasic or something. He doesn't see the ball well. The ball the did catch on the first drive, he was late getting his hands to the ball.

[denverYooper]

You can't know that. I bet people probably said the exact same thing about Favre back in the mid 90's.
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While not perfectly knowable, I'd definitely bet on black here.

[ND72]

I've been as much of a anti-Finley guy lately as anyone, but I fully realize how important Finley can be for us...plus, he's what, 24 years old? can't let a guy who is still developing at 24 years old and is already as much a threat as he is walk. Maybe a full off season with Rodgers will help...maybe some marriage counciling with Rodgers would help.

[Smidgeon]

The difference being that Gronk and Graham can make the catch.

They should show him two contracts - the "real" contract and another one as if he had caught the balls he dropped this season. Maybe leaving money on the table would motivate him to improve his performance.

Finley can too. He just had an off year. His catch rate last year was phenomenal until he went down.

[Upnorth]

I say give him a very high potential contract but with half or more of the value being incentive based. Give him the oppertunity to be the highest paid TE in the league, but to do that he would need a 95% catch rate, 1200 yrds and 14 tds. I say give him a social media clause.

[ND72]

I say give him a very high potential contract but with half or more of the value being incentive based. Give him the oppertunity to be the highest paid TE in the league, but to do that he would need a 95% catch rate, 1200 yrds and 14 tds. I say give him a social media clause.

BINGO

[Teamcheez1]

I'm willing to sign him to a very good contract in the hopes he will become a superstar like Antonio Gates or Tony Gonzalez.

I just hope he's not the next Kellen Winslow.

[Joemailman]

I say give him a very high potential contract but with half or more of the value being incentive based. Give him the oppertunity to be the highest paid TE in the league, but to do that he would need a 95% catch rate, 1200 yrds and 14 tds. I say give him a social media clause.

The danger with a contract like that is that he becomes too interested in his own personal statistics. In order for a receiver to get gaudy statistics, he has to be thrown to a lot. I could see a guy like Finley getting disgruntled if he's not getting enough balls thrown to him to achieve those stats.

[Smidgeon]

The danger with a contract like that is that he becomes too interested in his own personal statistics. In order for a receiver to get gaudy statistics, he has to be thrown to a lot. I could see a guy like Finley getting disgruntled if he's not getting enough balls thrown to him to achieve those stats.

Good point. However, if he's producing, he'll get the ball thrown his way. Conversely, you could incentivize towards catch rate and number of offensive snaps (as a percentage) combined with offensive production while he's on the field. It'd be a really convoluted way (read: impractical so it won't happen) way of using incentives, but at least that way it'd be tailored to his skills and field effect.

[mraynrand]

I say give him a social media clause.

he gets a bonus if he doesn't tweet from his igloo?

[ThunderDan]

I suspect the reason the Packers don't want to franchise him anymore is that he didn't play well enough to command that kind of dough. This is one where Ted was probably fortunate for not extending him during the season.

Exactly, you don't tag a player with the drops.

TT and Finely's agent will work out a contract before they need to tag him. 4 years $18M.