Time to extend Jason Campbell?

no need to lock jc up yet, and definetly noy doughty

Jason Campbell is under contract for two more seasons, 2008 and 2009. His base salaries those years are $1.2 million and $800K respectively.

Deciding whether or not to extend him largely depends upon your opinion of him. Is he your franchise QB of the future or not?

I'd think right now he'd garner a deal similar to the one Derek Anderson just got from the Browns. He got 3 years, $24 million, with $13 million of it guaranteed. Campbell seems like a guy with a ton of promise who you can trust to lead your team, but he hasn't shown enough to commit to him for the long term. Hence the Derek Anderson comparison - a three year deal would seem to fit. I think that's a solid comparison in terms of value.

That said, we couldn't afford that contract on our cap right now. $24 million over 3 years, even if backloaded, is going to eat up too much space this coming season for us to still fit our rookies under the cap. So we'd probably have to wait until 2009 anyway.

But the Browns made that move because Anderson was a pending free agent. Since Campbell's under contract, and given our cap situation, it makes more sense to me that we let him play under his current contract this year. Then in 2009 we'll have one more season on which to judge, and at that point we can make the decision to extend him or move on.

im with schneed on this. we need to see more out of Campbell before we lock up any more money in him. and with him already under contract for the next 2 seasons, at a good cap figure, lets make him earn his money

Don't count on JC gettin re-signed before the new coaching staff has a chance to see what he does in a real game? This is one of the times when the FO and the coaching staff has to come together to evaluate which direction we want to go as a team. I realize there aren't many franchise QB's out there to choose from but maybe Jim Zorn doesn't see JC as the perfect fit for his system, which Gibbs did view him as, just yet.

The poor guy always has a new offense to run. Give him a year in Zorn's offense, and let him decide.

NFL contracts escalate from year to year, so the only way it make sense to do a deal in a year before you have to is if you can trade the player his guaranteed security for a few more years at a reasonable price.

If we could get Campbell to extend his deal by two years, at say 9 million dollars total, this would be a great deal for us. But there's no reason to pay him like a Franchise QB until this time next season.

he'd probably want to wait since there's more upside to him getting PAID by waiting and showing he's improved.

Might as well wait...if he sucks, then we are stuck with a bigger contract, if he does well, then he'll want even more money and possibly even sit out to get it. You sign him to an extended contract when he deserves it. While he played decent last year, he didn't earn an extension. I have no problem signing him to a large extension when he performs well and when he deserves it. None of us will.

He's gotta show some improvement. With a new coach, a new passing game and some rookie wr's, he's going to need more time. Not yet.

He's gotta show some improvement. With a new coach, a new passing game and some rookie wr's, he's going to need more time. Not yet.

well said. This year theres too many ?'s not enough answers.