He's playing for his next contract. Bombing or outright refusing to play because he's butthurt would be the dumbest thing ever.

Baker is who he is. He is not going to miraculously become an excellent QB. There is a reason they would be interested in improving their QB position. He couldn't get them further with a stacked team than he did.

It's the Browns and he's a QB. He doesn't have to be excellent.

They've got a solid roster. If he can just recapture that 2020 magic, the city of Cleveland will love him, he goes out the hero, and some garbage team will sign him to a huge contract. Hell, look at that bum Carson Wentz.

I keep hearing about Baker going to Seattle

there is talk that a full year suspension pushes his contract numbers back a year. it turns into a six year deal.

Where? I've never seen that before. So does Ridley tick a year as well?

Bullshit. They gave up a ton of draft capital they couldn't afford to lose and got nothing for it. How is that a blessing?

Faker is a lost cause

Now punish owners like Kraft

LMAO Good Lord.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Browns have restructured the contract of QB Deshaun Watson, converting $44.79M of his 2024 base salary into a signing bonus and creating $35.832M in cap space, per source. <br><br>Cleveland now has over $62M in cap space, the most in the entire NFL. <a href="https://t.co/KC9hLWQDT8">pic.twitter.com/KC9hLWQDT8</a></p>&mdash; Field Yates (@FieldYates) <a href="https://twitter.com/FieldYates/status/1829126529479033188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

For what. Aiyuk?

That's a lot of coin butthole massages.

I don't understand the timing of this. Are they going to trade for Aiyuk or some other high priced malcontent? Otherwise, since they already had cap space this year wouldn't they be better not restructuring and taking that $44M cap hit this season? If I understand correctly they now will be spreading the $44M cap hit over the remainder of the contract. Seems like that just wastes cap space in future years?

A treasure chest for the Cleveland masseuses, obviously.

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.4e4316b9...pid=ImgRaw&r=0

Wasn't it reported that they were offering not only Amari Cooper but TWO second round picks for Aiyuk to the 9ers? Who else could it be that would demand such a cap hit in their first year with the Browns?