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Originally Posted by O.city
Why would he take 17 mil a year when the tag pays 19.5?
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If he could get $36 million in guarantees over the first 2 years, it's not necessarily a no-brainer, but it's awfully defensible.
Risk $4 million (presuming he was looking to get $40 million in those first 2) to lock in an additional $16? That's probably worth considering.
I suspect he's looking at the 2/$44 million that Johnson got in his first 2 years as a baseline, though. Johnson's deal, at $19 million per, looks pretty nice. But it's frontloaded with lower salaries in years 3 and 4. He actually gets $44 million in total cash and guarantees in the first 2 seasons. And I suspect that's where the "Sneed wants $22 million/yr" stuff is coming from.
He wants a deal on par with Johnson's at the beginning of the contract. I don't think he has any real argument to surpass that contract, but maybe he's digging in on the structure over the first 2 seasons.