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Bill Barnwell: what Gettleman should do

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11 minutes ago, Saca312 said:

Yeah, cutting him means cutting the best blocking RB in the league. The only guy CLOSE to being an okay-NFL blocking back right now is Fournette, and even he has bad form that'll take a few years to edge out.

Stewart is more vital than you think. 

I like Stewart. I just like the cap space more than I like him. He is past his prime and nobody can argue that. He'd have to have one of his best years of his career this season to make his cap hit worth it.  More than likely we can't expect much improvement from him. 

Then the people who argue we should keep him even if we draft fournette may not be considering the fact we'd be carrying Stewart at a franchise level cap hit for RB and he wouldn't even be our workhorse anymore. 

The value simply isn't there.

Gettleman has chose to blame salary cap hell the past 4 season's and has ripped the band aid off much better players than him for less money. Now that we have completed the journey to curing all of the horrible contracts (assuming we end this one). No reason to hold onto him simply because we don't have a sure fire successor right now. 

Almost all would agree that this season will be his last with us if he makes it that far. The draft sets Gettleman up in the perfect way to replace Stewart, with strong potential of getting someone who could very well have a better career than Stewart has had with us. If he doesn't do it next year then its just one more hole he has to play catch up on to replace with his back against the wall.  

If we are lucky enough to draft Fournette then I would want him to assume the starring role right away. I wouldn't want to pay Stewart to be the third highest paid back to split carries at best and provide us the same results he did last year. One of my beefs with Gman is drafting players who don't make enough of an immediate impact in the first round the last 2 years. Shaq made some impact as a rookie and Butler virtually made none (I understand he missed time to injury). Now its time to get immediate dividend's on our 1st round pick. 

I keep hearing the we have 50 million in cap space but soon enough Gettleman will caution and remind everyone much of that money will need to go to his boys he personally acquired with expiring rookie deals.  Some may have to be overpaid a tad based on value to secure their services. So I am ok with over paying Short for instance to keep him long term, because that makes sense. Stewart, however is not that great of a threat as a rusher anymore and will be getting over paid for 1 year and that's it. 

2016 was our year to push all of our chips in to  make the super bowl push. Instead we let Norman walk over money we didn't use last year. But guess what we rolled it over into this year and is a big reason why we have so much cap room right now. So we can roll Stewart's savings into the 18 offseason, and keep it rolling by only over paying young core guys vs past their prime guys in their final year. Everyone else needs to be a good value and fit to compensate for the big deals it takes to retain our stars and hopefully recruit another teams star occasionally. 

 

 

 

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I've kind of been a proponent of keeping Stewart, because I feel like we have enough holes we don't need to create new ones by releasing good players.  Also with some of our protection issues I'm nor sure if Cam needs another thing to worry about.

if you actually look at the cap numbers though you can make an argument the other way though.  

If you factor in the voidable year the $8.3m number is actually low.

let me explain;

JS has a 2017 cap hit of $8.25

2018 is a voidable year that carries a dead money cap hit of $1.5m

In reality his one year of service will cost $9.75m in cap cost, whereas cutting him now would cost $3.5m.

So the question becomes, do you want Stewart for one year or an extra $6.25m in cap room over the next 2 years?

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