Demarcus Ware signed his deal in 2009 for 7 years and 78 million. Now I don't know anything about the guaranteed money or any of that but it seems father time worked his end on the money per year basis but all in all it looks (so far) like a fair deal for both sides.
as good as clay is that's to much..i know some will disagree being he's the only real threat on defense but man. Hopefully his hamstrings hold up.
Ya know, it's one more example of where the salary spread has been heading...stagnant cap, rookie contracts cheaper under the new CBA scale, rookie savings migrating to the elite players, the middle range players at, say, 29 years of age and up, getting squeezed.
A few teams, like Baltimore, are seeing a lot of value among those cheap "middle aged" players. Even SF has brought in some cheap vets with value with the money they saved not re-signing Goldson. I think there is wisdom here. The whole "don't sign guys hitting 30 years old" makes sense if you have to give them a 5 year deal. It does not make a lot of sense when you can pick these guys up on 1, 2, 3 years or without much in guarantees.
It doesn't look quite so bad if we subtract the amount Hawk is paying out of his pocket.31 mil in guarantees definitely says he's elite imo haha.
as good as clay is that's to much..i know some will disagree being he's the only real threat on defense but man. Hopefully his hamstrings hold up.
Would you have been excited if we would have signed Peppers for 6 years/$84M which is what the Bears gave him? I'm sure you would've been.
That contract had $42M guaranteed compared to $31M for Clay. Peppers was 30, Clay is 27.
I don't think this contract is unreasonable at all.
Rodell would rather let Matthews walk and pay a retread 8-10 mil.Hmmm....just speculating here but maybe the CM/AR contracts are part of the reason why TT has not over spent on the retreads from 31 other teams this off season! Prudent management of the salary cap will allow GB the opportunity to lock up a couple of the best players in the league. Of course doling out this much cash is always a gamble but at least we know what we are paying for!
Rodell would rather let Matthews walk and pay a retread 8-10 mil.
Oh Lord haha. Yea that's what i said.
Pretty muchNo, he said that because you normally talk about the big time free agents that are beyond years or to costly for us...that was his joke.....i think anyways....
what? that makes no sense sir. I could care less about Peppers or what the Bears gave him, we are talking about Clay Matthews. Thank you tho.
The point is if we signed an elite pass rusher in free agency, you would have been thrilled.
But because it's our own guy it's not as exciting to you and you think we're overpaying.
Annt wrong, getting HELP for Matthews would've been exciting. Why? Because the defense needs it.