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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 857815">You picked up your number from overthecap, I assume, which has not yet worked in the contract reneotiation.  The spotrac $17 mil number is the better one as cited by the Captain.  Of course that's the number now.  By the time we get there another renegotiation may have happened pushing that dead cap number up further.  Rodgers will be entering the 2022 season at age 38.  He keeps saying he'd like to play to 40 or beyond.  QBs are doing that these days.  The formulation is too far in the future to contemplate at this time.Even without another extension, what would $22.6 mil in cap savings buy you in 2022 if you don't have a QB who can win games?  It is extremely hard to find a winning QB.  History is littered with far, far more busts than winners.  There's even a long list of guys with early promise or even early success with no staying power and no Superbowl wins--RGIII, Newton, Kaepernick, Winston, and on and on.  Goff is heading that way.  Will defenses figure out Jackson before he gets the big win?  When his knee gets dinged up and the run threat goes by the boards, where will he be?  At least Flaco had an insane playoff run and the big win before the deep fade.  He was the highest paid QB once upon a time.In short, you won't know what you've got until it is gone.</blockquote>

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