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Did you know Matt Kalil will still be counting against our cap NEXT season?

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2 minutes ago, Sam Mills Fan said:

Even though he last played a game for us in December 2017, we won't be fully free from him until March 2021. His dead money will account for almost 5% of our cap *next* season.

Other than Sean Gilbert, probably our worst contract decision ever.

   it’s posted damn near daily. At this point, who doesn’t know. It’s been discussed since the day he signed that ridiculous thing. 
 

   

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1 minute ago, thefuzz said:

I don't think this was our worst contract ever, I'm not saying it's not, but I think some others were worse.

 

  It’s the worst I’ve ever seen. At least other players that got FA Bust contracts usually did something to deserve it. Kalil was a bottom 5 LT, if he was even healthy enough to play. What convinced anyone that he would suddenly get better? 

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2 minutes ago, Toomers said:

  It’s the worst I’ve ever seen. At least other players that got FA Bust contracts usually did something to deserve it. Kalil was a bottom 5 LT, if he was even healthy enough to play. What convinced anyone that he would suddenly get better? 

You and I have gone around about this contract, but didn't it really come out to 2 years for 25M at the end of the day?

I mean, it's bad....real bad as the guy couldn't play football, but when I think of the worst contracts, I think of Anderson, Beason, DWill, etc...

Beason and DWill were good players, but those deals were terribly constructed, IIRC?

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1 minute ago, thefuzz said:

You and I have gone around about this contract, but didn't it really come out to 2 years for 25M at the end of the day?

I mean, it's bad....real bad as the guy couldn't play football, but when I think of the worst contracts, I think of Anderson, Beason, DWill, etc...

Beason and DWill were good players, but those deals were terribly constructed, IIRC?

 Beacon is a very comparable deal. But even he can blame injury and earned it that amount with high level Of play. Kalil quit after one year. One! And forced us to put an injured DW out there.
 

  And Anderson and Williams also played well before their deals that were much cheaper. And still played years after. 
 

  25M for one year of awful LT play. Find me anything that matches that. 
 

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8 minutes ago, thefuzz said:

You and I have gone around about this contract, but didn't it really come out to 2 years for 25M at the end of the day?

I mean, it's bad....real bad as the guy couldn't play football, but when I think of the worst contracts, I think of Anderson, Beason, DWill, etc...

Beason and DWill were good players, but those deals were terribly constructed, IIRC?

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