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Originally Posted by O.city
They're not tagging him next year at 33.5 million dollars, so unless he just sits out and brings that number down, it's kind of not worth talking about.
I would venture to say they think of him more of a guy that's not your normal DE and ages differently, but we shall see.
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I honestly don't get your logic on being so sure about Veach not tagging Jones even at $33.5M BUT also thinking that Veach should pay him $30+ million.
What do you think next years cap hit will be if Veach gives him $30M average?
I think we all would agree that if Veach does in fact reach a new deal with Jones that this years cap hit will go down from the $28.291 million it is ATM.
Veach seems to like cheap 1st years on new contracts but lets say the new deal only brings it down to say $20M instead of $28M to give Veach and the front office some breathing room.
$30M avg over lets say a 3 year deal is $90M with what about $60M in guarentees. If you take a $20M hit this year that means next year when you think it would be crazy for Veach to tag Jones for $33.5M but ok to give him a contract worth $30M average..his cap hit should be around that exact $33.5M number if not more.
I'm sure this is also one of the factors Veach is looking at and realizes why give him that $30M contract when worst case he could tag him for about the same cap hit in 2024 and look for a trade partner or just let him play on it.