Guess I should just put these here since I was on the record already.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Calling my shot - Jawaan Taylor signs a long-term deal here. We draft another OT in the 1st and the off-season becomes a competition between those 2, Niang and a 'reliable veteran' of the Wylie/Remmers mold (i.e. cheap and experienced) to see who starts, who becomes the primary swing and who sweats out the final cutdown day to see how many OTs we carry into week 1.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Jawaan Taylor is our LT next year...
Makes all the sense in the world.
I'd pay him $17-18 million/season on a deal that is essentially a 3 year deal with 'options' to take it out to 5 on us (He's only 25 right now).
So how do we do this....
5 years, $90 million. Signing bonus of $25 million. Base salaries of $2/$8 and $13 million in years 1-3 (giving him $48 million in the first 3 seasons). Salaries of $18 and $24 million in years 4 and 5.
So:
$25 million bonus
$2, 8, 13, 18, 24 in salaries in years 1-5.
If he makes the transition to LT, that year 4 number is probably still wholly reasonable by then and if he makes it well, year 5 is at least tolerable enough to leverage into a restructure or play on it outright.
If he's stuck at RT you have cap hits for your RT of $7 million, $13 million and $18 million over 3 seasons before you probably cut him loose with a June 1 designation and split that $10 million in dead money over a couple years.
I could live with that. There's a reasonable ceiling and a high floor. Some value baked in if everything goes really well, a makeable escape hatch if it doesn't.
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Now I can either take victory laps or eat shit. Or more likely, obfuscate a lot.
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