Draft Successors Pay Predecessors

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One of my main contentions in the past was our allegiance to our vets. When DG started to run things, he went to the extreme but still had a plan in place. It is extremely hard to follow the path of the one before and that is why we are where we are. 

1. TD: We drafted Shaq as successor, but we in August we extended Davis. While looking at the numbers by themselves, it wasn't a bad deal for both sides. But in total TD has a Cap of $7.7m when we have his replacement. 

2. Olsen: We had him under contract but decided to add $2m of incentives. This was a good move by Hurney by not adding additional money. If I put negatives I will also talk about positives. 

3. Capt Munnerlyn: We signed him a year after we drafted 3 CBs and got 1 more in the draft. He signed for 4 years $17.5m and has a cap hit of around $4m. 

4. Ryan Kalil: He has a cap hit of $9.9m and has had a history of injuries the past 2 years. While there is a definite drop of performance, Larsen played well and only costs us $630,000. 

5. Trai Turner: This is a scary deal because we backloaded the hell out of this deal. We went from $3.9 in 2017 and it goes all the way up to $14.5 in 2021. 

6. Gano: Don't know the details on his contract, but we drafted his replacement that was much cheaper but didn't move on from our vet predecessor. 

Overall, we drafted a lot of guys to replace our vets but keep paying them. Some were decisions that we had to make like Turner but there were many that we made out of fear and that fear is why we are where we are right now.