2023 Cap Discussion

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Originally Posted by htismaqe

What he's saying is that ALL contracts (pretty much) have balloon years at the end.

Therefore it doesn't matter if you look at actual AAV or include the ballon years instead. Because it's not about absolute dollar value, it's about cost relative to other players at his position.

But in reality a player can have a extremely high AAV and not even get close to that. It's like when Taysom Hill signed that 4 year 140mil contract and people acted like his $35M AAV was real. Teams/players can make the AAV whatever they want. So why even talk about that and pretend it's real? Let's talk about the real numbers.