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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 762586" data-attributes="member: 7261">Isn't that how all non-incentive based contracts are determined?It is easy to sit here and **** and moan about guys like Matthews and Cobb not living up to their contracts, but that is part of the NFL, guaranteed money and cap.  Once those 2 players signed their names to their contract, they were Green Bay Packers for X years and Y dollars and had they produced beyond their paid amount, like #12 has, I doubt there would be much discussion, other than "how do we convince them to give us a hometeam discount and resign for less than market?"I'm also getting tired of reading we should have cut Cobb/Matthews long ago, look at their contracts and the Packers roster and let me know how that makes sense 1 or 2 years ago.  Could the Packers have traded either player 1 or 2 years ago?  Probably not, guaranteed contracts are a b*tch.There can be as many as 31 other teams interested in signing a player, if you aren't willing to take the downside risk of signing guys, the NFL probably isn't a game you want to be in.</blockquote>

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