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Originally Posted by oldman
He'll be 31 by the time the season starts. No matter how good he is/WAS, you don't back up the Brink's truck for a 31 year old WR. He's owed (base salary) $34.365M over the next 2 years. Now if he makes that base salary into a 3 year deal and we have to give up ONLY a 4th, groovy. Anything else is paying for a name and that's foolish.
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But we also have to understand that you pay more sometimes for the flexibility to get out when you want to. A short term deal at $20m per year is way less damaging than $15m/year over 5 years where you get stuck with dead cap. Overpaying doesn’t bother me too much. The chiefs have been very successful over the years at doing this, then flipping to a draft pick as soon as they could. Remember that before there was a Travis kelce and Chris jones, we overpaid for guys like fasano and Devito. Damien Wilson was a quick but useful stopgap even if overpaid until we found Bolton and gay organically.