The Baltimore Ravens have an opportunity to place the franchise tag on Joe Flacco this offseason. Every time the Ravens use the franchise tag on a player, that player usually signs a major contract by the end of the offseason. Terrell Suggs in 2009, Haloti Ngata in 2011 and Ray Rice in 2012 are proof of that prediction having a strong chance of becoming a reality in 2013. What will the Joe Flacco contract extension look like?
Flacco’s agent may be hyping him as an elite quarterback, but we all know he isn’t that type of quarterback. His agent will be looking for a Ben Roethlisberger/Eli Manning/Drew Brees type of deal which is upwards of 100 million dollars for eight years.… Read more
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