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Old 12-10-2012, 11:00 AM   #10365
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Originally Posted by dirk digler View Post
yeah I am reading about 100 million. Do you honestly think cheap ass David Glass is going to fork out $100 million over 5 years to one player? That would be almost half of his $57 million dollar payroll lol
The payroll just went over $80MM. Even if we believe that $70MM is the breakeven, that'll go to $95MM in 2014 when the new Fox, TBS, and ESPN contracts kick in.

Committing 20% of your payroll to one player is a lot, but we've done it before. The years are more frightening than the AAV.
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