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Originally Posted by The Franchise
Like I said in another thread that had the same trade.
Why and how are the Seahawks paying big contracts to both Clowney AND Jones?
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For starters, you're assuming Seattle "must" pay Clowney. Personal opinion? I wouldn't and I'm not sure they do either. They didn't give up very much for a 1-year rental of a player that severely underperformed.
Clowney is alot of hype most of the time. He's had 9 or more sacks only twice in his 6-year career and never 10 or more. He's okay against the run, but not earth-shattering. I'd rather have Jones. I don't consider it a do both situation at all. They have 2019 1st round pick LJ Collier and they have Rasheem Green, who played pretty decent.
That said, if they do happen to pay Clowney, why would you ever offer significantly more than what Dee Ford got? I wouldn't.
I'd put a ceiling of $15m on year one if for some reason they do something stupid, and if that's the case they likely don't trade for Jones because they have to pay Ifedi, which is probably $10 per, a quarter of their roster is ERFA guys so there goes $4.5m, and they have 5 RFAs of which I see them tendering 4, which is another $8.5m. That ties up $38 of their available $50m in space, which doesn't leave enough for Jones.
What they gave up for the "must sign" Clowney:
LB Barkevious Mingo, who sucks and had a whole 6 tackles this year
LB Jacob Martin who registered an eye-popping 11 tackles on the year playing special teams
A 3rd round pick, and hell we've seen those get cut the same year they are drafted.
The Seahawks aren't on the hook for Clowney in the least.