Ronnie Brown wants long-term deal, but will not hold out

Good stuff!

And, as for Ronnie, depends on what he considers “long term.” I may give him an incentive filled 3-year contract, but that’s about the extent of what I woud look at right now.

all the diva’s are gone. just concentrate on winning.

Adding contractual problems isnt the way to go.. Finish a season and we’ll see what we can do

I’m sure he’ll settle for a solid contract nothing lucrative.

We got one diva back though….B. Marshall!

And to be honest I understand why he wants a long term deal. Especially as brittle as he is. But his character and leadership is a great reason to re sign him. But he needs to not ask more than what he is receiving up to maybe 15% increase. FYI I wouldnt mind get Vincent jackson over here either. I think that would be crazy. yeah yeah I know, no reason to, but it would just be funny if we got him. My goodness. Our running game would disappear, lol

Personally though, I wouldn’t sign him to anything long-term unless he stays healthy this year. But if he does I say pay the man. I hope he retires a dolphin.

The situation as it stands only benefits the FO, signing Ronnie to any other contract is a risk that they can’t take from a smart business standpoint.

First and foremost, Ronnie has never been a solo act. He’s part of a 2-headed monster. He needs a second RB to compliment him and take at least 1/3 of his snaps each game. Just from that fact alone, its difficult to see Miami throwing gobs of cash over a longer period of time at him. (Granted, the 2 back approach is something that a lot of teams now do. But why pay a guy “feature back money” if he is only doing half of the work? You gotta find another guy of equal calibur with maybe different attributes. That said, you’d want to split the difference of the feature back money between the two rather than pay both starters money).

Second is his age but even moreso his injuries. The guy rarely sees injuries that remove him for a game or two…he suffers season-enders. The concern is durability. Nobody is doubting his toughness, but at nearly 30, you have to be concerned that his injury history will catch up sooner rather than later and slow him down.

Miami benefits from having Ronnie play out the year so they can evaluate him. Either way, given Ricky’s age and likely retirement, they have to address RB either way next off-season. Ronnie isn’t a prototype Parsells RB when you are honest about it. There could be an overhaul coming from the RB position next season.

I love Ronnie and would love to see him get a longer term deal, but the facts don’t help him out. His best option at this point is to play the whole season, be as productive and important as always. Doing this will either sway Miami to signing him up for a few more years, or at worst, make him valuable in the free agency market next year.

The only other thing I see Miami doing is maybe a 2 year deal that is front loaded and can be voided if he falls short again this season, or language can also ensure Ronnie getting the deal extended and improved as long as he meets certain expectations. Anything longer and more lucrative would be a show of loyalty by the team, which is admirable, but I suspect that Miami would have made that move long before now if that were the case.

I think us Ronnie fans should just hope for him to have a great season so he can sway the team to want to keep him around.

He is a classy guy. Signing that tender shows a lot of loyalty and faith and MY hope is that the team rewards him for it. I just don’t think it’ll be this off-season.

If he can stay healthy for a full season and produce all season……he’ll get a deal…I’d be willing to guess, that the powers to be want to see how he does this season….I didn’t realize that bascially all the RB’s are unsigned after this season……interesting…maybe that’ll promote some serious production from the majority of them this season…..

It had better be for average type of money. He hasn’t earned Elite money, he hasn’t really even earned Good Money in my opinion. You might over pay for a halfback, but NOT for half a back…..

He’s a team guy, a class act, and a plays with heart….. but that doesn’t earn you a big paycheck.

seems to me some things have changed in the day about RB’s. folks are saying dont give ronnie a contract based on his age and how RB’s hit a wall at 30.. well back when they had a single fitured back who had to take 200 plus carries a game then yes i can see the 30 wall thing. but now in a 2 back featured offense <—-see learned to spell it right ;op. the wall thing dont apply anymore. ricky a prime example of this at 33.

now i do think his injury prone stuff is a major factor on his contract. but just not his age.
so for ronnie IF he can stay off the injury list then i can see them giving him a three or four more year deal.

as my great grand pappy use to say: worrying about what if’s is as useless as tits on a bore hog.