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Eine Analyse der Cox extension (hoho) aus Eagles Sicht
Ich verlinke mal die mMn wichtigsten Aussagen:
Ich verlinke mal die mMn wichtigsten Aussagen:
“You’re going to see a different composition of the roster. I don’t see Jason Peters surviving past this year. He’s going to have to have a great year to survive. Connor Barwin already doesn’t seem like a fit with the change of scheme. Ryan Mathews continues not to be able to stay healthy. And [Sam] Bradford, you assume, is going to be traded or cut. So if you cut those four guys it’s going to create a ton of cap room. You can get $7.75 from Barwin, $9.2 from Peters, if Mathews is injury-prone, that’s $4 million. And if you had to cut Bradford as opposed to trading him, that’s $13.5 million.”
If the Eagles trade Bradford, the cap relief jumps to $17.5 million. There is a potential savings of between $34.5 million and $38.5 million, then, if the team decides to part with the names Corry mentioned. They’re some pretty big names, which helps drive home the level of risk involved in the game of resource allocation and the importance of getting it right. But it shows that even though the dollars spent this offseason are staggering, there are ways to make it work.
“Nothing’s changed. They’re still smart with the cap. Anytime you can get your core players locked up sooner rather than later is beneficial provided they don’t get hurt. Look at J.J. Watt in Houston now: he’s locked up through the 2021 season and I’m sure he’s looking at these guys — because Fletcher Cox makes more than he does now — and is going, ‘Something’s not right about this.’ And there will be deals that hit the marketplace [that will trump this one], like whenever Muhammad Wilkerson gets paid, it’s going to be more than Fletcher Cox; you’ve gotta assume that whenever Kawann Short signs a deal it’s going to be in the same neighborhood; then guys like Khalil Mack are going to blow this deal out of the water.”
“You can’t do a deal with Carson Wentz until after the 2018 season at the earliest [because of the CBA],” he said, “and you have the fifth-year option so you may not do it until after 2019. You can afford to carry Cox at a pretty high cap number because you’re not going to have a quarterback at a high cap number.”