Quoting: Wqrrior
and Chevy... and Fletcher....
Pearson, Lowry, Laughton all are in a different tier and all met the niche of that market.
I get the meme, but Hartman isn't exactly at that level. Nonetheless, this is a pretty nice contract. I wasn't expecting him to get a pay cut.
Chevy is great at giving contracts. Give one bad contract on that team, other than the ones given to older guys mainly to show loyalty which is very necessary for a small market that doesn’t attract free agents like Winnipeg. Ie not wheeler and little, though one could argue that those contracts won’t (or wouldn’t have in the case of little) be very bad until the last 1-2 years.
As for Lowry, it’s a steal. The jets play him to shutdown the other teams top lines every game, which allows the jets to play their top 6 more freely. He also plays big, which isn’t something the jets have a lot of. Not to mention, he’s a great voice for the team. He would have easily gotten over 4M on the open market imo and the jets got him on a serious steal of a contract. Take this with a grain of salt but when Friedman said that when he reported that both the jets and lowry’s camp were getting close on a contract, he was called by multiple execs of teams asking if it was done and he said yes. That’s shows just how valuable he is. Imo, without him, the jets aren’t exactly in a good spot. Not to mention it’s a steal of a contract anyway.
As for his other contracts, scheifele, Connor, ehelrs, hellebuyck... To say chevy is bad at contract negotiations is very false, in fact he is one of the best in the league tbh.