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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Gonna lose Jones next year in all probability anyway.
So here's something I think few are considering - the QB market is INSANE. Since Mahomes signed his deal people have said "hey, we'll just keep kicking the can and in 5 years when that cap number hits $50 million we'll just renegotiate...."
What if we....didn't. Because I've got a sneaking suspicion that if we stop kicking that can and just let that deal stand as written, it'll be a screaming bargain now until it expires. And then we're under pressure to come back to the table as QBs contracts start to push north of $50+ million in annual guarantees.
We can consider that sort of thing if we DON'T go balls to the wall trying to retain Hill. Or if we move on from Jones when it's pretty obvious that he's not worth a $27 cap charge.
We just have to be much MUCH smarter in how we're doing things. And this is, in many ways, a positive sign. We've seen it all off-season. We were in on Smith until his market got stupid and we pulled the chute. Then it got more stupid somehow. We sat down with Hill and tried to get something done but when he decided he wanted to set records, we said no mas.
We got JuJu on dick in guarantees. We got Reid at 60% what Mathieu was demanding.
Now I do wish we'd have gone ahead and re-signed Ward now, but I don't think this was Veach's plan when a decision point came on Ward.
This all demonstrates that Veach is past his "hold the paddle up until you win" approach of the last 4 years. And that approach was disastrous long-term.
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I get it and we all agree the way Veach went about it early on was the right decision because Pat was on a cheap rookie contract so they went all in to win it all.
I just don't believe in trading away generational\HOF players in their prime like this. That is why I agreed with whoever posted about the Colts keeping Manning, Harrison and James together and you fill in the pieces around them.
Listening to Petro right now and he is asking with Hill's cap space we sign Ronald Jones, Clowney and Marquez Valdes-Scantling and how good would that be.
