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Originally Posted by In58men
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It's 'risk averse' to the extent that the signing bonus is low and he could be easily cut.
But his AAV in base salary over the next 5 seasons of that deal is nearly $7 million/season. The Chiefs would be insane to carry that kind of base salary on their books for a backup TE and frankly the Bucs aren't real smart to have it on the books themselves.
His '19 salary has already fully guaranteed at $7 million. For an injury prone TE who was baaaaaad last season, that's just way too rich. There's simply no financial upside baked into that deal as the Chiefs would almost certainly have to approach him to restructure immediately. In which case, let the Bucs cut him soon enough and approach him in FA then, when his leverage is reduced.
That's a very bad, very short sighted idea by someone who is of the 'have cap, must spend' mindset despite our ability to roll cap space over and use it a hell of a lot more productively than torching it on a TE2.