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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 824518">This is not Ball.  Ball has marching orders unless you think he's actually making personnel decisions.  He may be the guy laying out the June 1 option numbers and the like but that's not the overall thrust.If you wind the clock back a few years you'd find a lot of Packer contracts were not backloaded or minimally so.  Many of the multi-year deals had a pretty even spread of cap cost over the years.  Rodgers last contract is indicative.  As the pressure to win mounted,  more contracts had cap backloaded.Now we're backloading everything with cap costs nearly doubling from year 1 to year 2 in these contracts.Ball was working contracts when they had a flattish spread; he's working contracts now with heavy backload.  He's clearly not the variable.  It's not Ball saying, "lets sign these 4 guys" or put an offer in for Bell if that rumor is even true.There is a blueprint in place that says "win now" more than a balance.  Whether that was set by Gutekunst or Murphy or both I could not say.  Murphy must be approving of it.  But the message to Ball is, "this is what we're doing, make it fit" or "this is what we want to do, how can it fit?"</blockquote>

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