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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 602555" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p>IMO captainWIMM’s suggestion that Cullen Jenkins is a much better example.</p><p></p><p>There were extenuating circumstances regarding Wahle and Rivera. Thompson had just been hired as GM and he found a team with salary cap problems and a roster in need of repair. Wahle’s contract contained a poison pill which gave Wahle all the leverage in negotiations: He was due a $6M roster bonus and his salary for 2005 was $5M. So he would have cost the Packers $11M in cash and cap. According to espn.com, the cap that year was $85.5M. In order to keep Wahle, they would have had to guarantee him $11M or more on an extended deal and how could Thompson fix the cap and begin re-making the roster with that kind of money and cap space invested in an OG?</p><p></p><p>From everything I read and heard back then, I believed Thompson intended to keep Marco Rivera. When Marco hit FA, he was 33 years old and still playing well. Jerry Jones offered him a $20M, 5-year contract with a $9M signing bonus. Again considering the circumstances it would have been foolish for Thompson to match that offer. BTW, Marco did not do well in Dallas but it wasn’t his fault. He injured his back before the season and had surgery. He still played all but the last two games of the 2005 season when a neck injury ended his career. After injuring his back, he offered to tear up his deal with Dallas and return the $9M signing bonus. Jones refused but that made me respect Marco all the more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 602555, member: 4300"] IMO captainWIMM’s suggestion that Cullen Jenkins is a much better example. There were extenuating circumstances regarding Wahle and Rivera. Thompson had just been hired as GM and he found a team with salary cap problems and a roster in need of repair. Wahle’s contract contained a poison pill which gave Wahle all the leverage in negotiations: He was due a $6M roster bonus and his salary for 2005 was $5M. So he would have cost the Packers $11M in cash and cap. According to espn.com, the cap that year was $85.5M. In order to keep Wahle, they would have had to guarantee him $11M or more on an extended deal and how could Thompson fix the cap and begin re-making the roster with that kind of money and cap space invested in an OG? From everything I read and heard back then, I believed Thompson intended to keep Marco Rivera. When Marco hit FA, he was 33 years old and still playing well. Jerry Jones offered him a $20M, 5-year contract with a $9M signing bonus. Again considering the circumstances it would have been foolish for Thompson to match that offer. BTW, Marco did not do well in Dallas but it wasn’t his fault. He injured his back before the season and had surgery. He still played all but the last two games of the 2005 season when a neck injury ended his career. After injuring his back, he offered to tear up his deal with Dallas and return the $9M signing bonus. Jones refused but that made me respect Marco all the more. [/QUOTE]
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