5 hours ago
(5 hours ago)rfaulk34 Wrote: I have an issue if the 'long term deal' is like 4 years, at his current age. Unless they front load it and give themselves an out later, or with much lower cap hits. I'm no NFL FO dude or capologist, but you can't tell me they couldn't do a deal that would give them outs towards the end of the contract. Teams do that all the time, even with much younger players.
The time to do the long term deal was after '23 when they gave him that whopping 1yr 21M "extension". They could have given him a 4 yr extension then, with an out that 4th year, or some kind of shit that other NFL teams come up with to pay their players but give them a chance to get out of paying for non-production.
Bottom line is, they totally ****** up the chance to extend him...once again...at a lower number than they would have to pay right now, if they had done it right after '23.
Agree, 3 year deal at the most now with him getting up there in age.
