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Originally Posted by RunKC
We can easily afford Berry. He's only $11 million average.
we need to go to expendable players like JC and Colquitt and tell them to restructure to help us win or go get your $$ elsewhere.
If Berry doesn't take a $11 million/yr $29+million gauranteed, then Dorsey needs to slip that out to the media for PR purposes. Not now obviously, but in a year if Berry signs somewhere else.
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Oh....it's easy, eh?
So let's say he has a cap hit at $11 million next year. It's not realistic to expect much better than that if the AAV is in that ballpark and you're guaranteeing $25-30 million over 5 years. So that only takes us from presently being $8 million over to $19 million over in 2017 - eh, pocket change, right?
Just cut Charles, Colquitt and Mauga - done...oh wait, that only clears $14 million. So we're still $5 million over AND we haven't paid Poe. Oh, and we haven't paid for draft picks either. If we're lucky we can get Fisher bought out of his 5th year option but he's still holding some leverage there. If you sign him long-term, he's probably still holding a $5 million cap hit next season. That shaves off just enough to keep Berry and probably make us legal after draft picks, but doesn't leave enough for Poe.
Stop being idiots about this. No, not one single thing about this will be 'easy'. If you re-sign Berry, it's damn sure going to come at a cost. At best, you can get a few older players to restructure now in exchange for guaranteeing them money we wouldn't have wanted to pay them in their decline years, thus hamstringing future flexibility when it comes time to get Smith's replacement or extend Peters. The bill WILL be paid. It's always paid.