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Originally Posted by O.city
Guys seem to legitimately love being here. I could see a guy like Schwartz taking a good bit less to stay.
They just love Andy.
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Fisher seems the most likely loss.
As an established LT w/ a long track record of credible play (and at least one championship) on the open market at 31 yrs old, he can probably get a deal that pays him something along the lines of $19 million/season for 3 seasons or so.
His cap hit here will be around $15 million over the next 2 seasons and there's 2 years to find his replacement (not to mention Niang still as a possibility).
Mathieu is gonna be a little long in the tooth by then as well and realistically his deal will need to be re-done for 2021. They're not gonna have him on the cap at $20 million next season. So are they going to want to extend him for ages 30 and 31 to get that hit reduced in 2021? Or will they just thank him for his service, eat about $4 million in dead cap and have a cleaner ledger for 2022?
I'll go on record as saying my guess is that they move on from Mathieu after this season and let Fisher walk as a FA to make room to extend Charvarius while absorbing the increases in the cap for Mahomes, Hill, Clark and Jones.