I fully understand that not signing Jones or Pierce, leaves us in a huge hole this year, but I am not so sure I am happy signing them to long term deals at the prices being thrown around at the moment is a good thing for the Colts to be doing either.
Pierce is a great 2nd receiver, who deserves a contract in the region of $15-20m based on what he has already produced. Could he become something more, sure, that's possible, but I don't want to be saddled with a similar contract to what Pittman has already, should he fail to morph into a No. 1 guy, which is what the contract being muted says he should be. The figures bounded around, say he should be one of the top 5 receivers in the league, and he certainly isn't anywhere near that at the moment and is it realistic to think that he will become that?
Jones was brilliant in the first half of the year, but he then suffered one of the most serious injuries a player could have. Are we willing to pay him top 5-10 QB money, when he has only achieved that sort of play for 8 games in his career. I am not sure he deserves that, even if he was fully healthy.
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