Seymour
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This started in another thread about Kam and his contract hit we will now be soaking up. In that thread the Wilson contract was brought up and it's effects on the team. In signing Duane Brown they pushed back money from 2017 to 2018 and 19 to the sum of over $6M to sign Brown.
Now we are going to pay up the ying yang to keep Wilson (and others as you will see) because Pete and John swung for the fences and whiffed.
Here is what our core now costs us compared to in 2013 when we won it all.
Wilson was 526K now 2018 $23.8M and 2019 $25.2M (this is up near $9.2M over 2017 cap hit!!)
Sherman was 555K now $13.2M
Earl was $2.0M now $10.4M
Wagner was 585K now $13.6M
Baldwin was 555K now $11.9M.
So here is the point. To field these very same players next season, we go from paying them a total of $4.2M in 2013 to $72.9M in 2018. That is an increase of $68.7M to keep the very same players!
In 2013 we took that and bought the highest paid oline in the NFL, blew some on Percy, and had a top 5 RB in Lynch.
That is how we won, we hit on a couple of drafts, hit top 5 players in their position, and had to pay next to nothing at that time.
Now we are in complete cap hell with Chancellor taking $9.5M, and these contracts that now 2 have pushed back $$ in Baldwin and Wilson to swing for the fences in 2017 and whiffed.
I don't have an answer other then to unload some of those contracts above and get what you can get. What I do know is we need to hit a couple of consecutive drafts to reproduce that success and have at least a few great players playing for cheap or you will not put together a SB winning team IMO. Not here under Pete at least.
Thread is open to all players contracts, what to do from here, and what you think we need to do to get back to the SB and win.
Now we are going to pay up the ying yang to keep Wilson (and others as you will see) because Pete and John swung for the fences and whiffed.
Here is what our core now costs us compared to in 2013 when we won it all.
Wilson was 526K now 2018 $23.8M and 2019 $25.2M (this is up near $9.2M over 2017 cap hit!!)
Sherman was 555K now $13.2M
Earl was $2.0M now $10.4M
Wagner was 585K now $13.6M
Baldwin was 555K now $11.9M.
So here is the point. To field these very same players next season, we go from paying them a total of $4.2M in 2013 to $72.9M in 2018. That is an increase of $68.7M to keep the very same players!
In 2013 we took that and bought the highest paid oline in the NFL, blew some on Percy, and had a top 5 RB in Lynch.
That is how we won, we hit on a couple of drafts, hit top 5 players in their position, and had to pay next to nothing at that time.
Now we are in complete cap hell with Chancellor taking $9.5M, and these contracts that now 2 have pushed back $$ in Baldwin and Wilson to swing for the fences in 2017 and whiffed.
I don't have an answer other then to unload some of those contracts above and get what you can get. What I do know is we need to hit a couple of consecutive drafts to reproduce that success and have at least a few great players playing for cheap or you will not put together a SB winning team IMO. Not here under Pete at least.
Thread is open to all players contracts, what to do from here, and what you think we need to do to get back to the SB and win.