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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
I imagine Houston and his agent know that's not reasonable. I'm guessing he's threatening to test the open market to drive up his value. I imagine he and his agent know he's not going to stay on his current contract.
Right now he doesn't have much guaranteed new money left. So paying off that demand isn't that unreasonable.
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You can (and would) cut him next year rather than pay him $19 m and only have $1.5 m dead cap. As for this year, it won't have anything to do with his market value, which would be pretty high, but not $21 m. Might be a couple or 3 years at $15? Just a guess.
I have no issues with any posturing right now; both sides are going to play hardball, it's just business.
I'm sure Houston's agent has figured out what we did, that it's cheaper to keep him at his current cap number than it is to cut him and pay Dee Ford.