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its not the amount, its how it is dispursed. Watson could get it all gauranteed and have it dispursed differently and be more cap effiicient... hence the standardization. His pay would grow every year, and never impact the team's planning or overall cap.

that explains the freeing of all the cap space.

I've mentioned this before in many other threads... wherever DW lands... his contract will be restructured and extended. The current contract was a deperation contract by the Texans. DW can still get the same amount of money and not have such a cap impact. I believe DW may be the first qb to take on a standarized contract.

I was literally just now typing this, haha.

If they want him, why would we give up more than just TB? For team with a lot of cap space, its not a burden to take on TB....

Patriots have a shitload of money free, and TB is not that expensive for a starter. Also, its basically a one year deal.

roughly 40% (21) - so we have PLENTY of spending room.

are you suggesting we would use 130 million in one off season to fill the roster and not extend DJ in the process?

the Robby anderson piece makes no sense... why would they trade for a player with one year left on his contract? This isnt the NBA....

right now we have 130 million of free cap space when DJ's contract comes up for extension....

its all fun and games. no harm done.

How is that extremely high if that is the norm? Do we have a metric for what is regular amount of touches from college to pro? What you just shared is that the best backs in the league have gotten the ball their entire career around the same amount of times. If we don't have anything to measure them against, how can we give them a value of volume? You'd think scouts and coaches would be like "oh man he touched the ball too many times in college, he will break down. Dont draft him" - with this logic.

I had no idea we were after a franchise QB.... great post. very informative. please do again.

If we didnt give him that contract, we would have had to be balancing Watson, Moton, and CMC this offseason. Plus the idea that CMC may not want to stay here and move on because of the transition of the franchise. Which would then impact the potential of Watson wantying to come here. You can tell the story any way you see fit, but in the end there are too many what ifs, and zero certainty.

He actually doesnt have EXREMELY high mileage, he has only touched the ball 1002 times over the last 4 years (avg. 250). He and Alvin Kamara both are at the 1000 mark over the four years. That is actually on par with performing running backs. Even if you include injury years or bench years you get the following numbers: Here are other back at the 1k mark: Fournette - 933 at 4 years (233 per season) Hunt - 848 touches at 4 years - includes suspension- (212 per season) Chubb - 750 touches at 3 years (250 touches per season) Montgomery - 568 touches at 2 years (284 per season) Jacobs - 568 touches at two years (284 per season) Aaron Jones - 700 touch at 3 years (233 per season) Dalvin Cook - 913 at 4 years (228 per season) Chris Carson - 760 at 3 years (253 per season) The following back have more than 1200 touches over the last four years: Zeke - 1300 touches at 4 years (325 per season) Derrick Henry - 1258 at 4 years (314 per season) Now the argument here isnt that CMC would have had more mileage or been overused... the argument here is that you are stating that CMC has EXTEMELY HIGH mileage, when in fact he is at the same point as most at the position who have played over the last 4 years. In this case.. he just has normal mileage for a player in his position.

CMC most likely won’t be part of the deal. The Texans won’t want to get ANOTHER rb in a trade. the 2 1st 2 2nd 2 defensive player theme will most likely stay. Fitts has been hyping donte Jackson intentionally lately. I expect him to be one piece, and most likely be someone we don’t want to trade as fans as the other. Fingers crossed for Shaq, hah.

Walk me through how this pipe dream plays out....

It’s fair to say about 12 teams are going to be interested... pulling the trigger to empty their roster and trade all of their resources is going to be the real test to see how interested they really are.

BBC has a whole new meaning

The attractiveness is the talented players on the roster that won’t be involved in the trade, and the massive amount of cap space we are about have over the next year. Of the 6 tradable players... at most only 2 of them wil be involved in the deal. The cap space we are creating isn’t just to take on DW’s contract but the potential of picking up two more key players as well... and don’t forget the veterans that will be affordable during the roster trimmings that occur bc of the reduced cap. this roster literally could be flipped over night into a contender, and DW would be the first domino to fall.

Market doesn’t matter now that we are a digitally driven world. We have access to everything at our finger tips.

What was it?

Two firsts and match the contract and Dak has to agree to come here over Dallas. I personally think this is what WFT is planning to do.

I think we are going to make a run at Watson or Prescott

https://nypost.com/2021/02/18/jets-could-have-a-deshaun-watson-problem-as-impatience-grows/ Interesting points here.