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Saban23
course a legit #1 in Watkins.
My fear at this moment is mostly cap related. How do we manage the Aaron Donald situation? I lean towards not giving him the deal yet but he's the best player on the team. How do we handle Trumaine Johnson and his crazy salary? Tavon Austin is way under-performing his contract and now he's hurt. Robert Woods got a nice free-agent deal for him, and quite rich for us. Sammy Watkins will be seeking big money next year. Ogletree is on the horizon of a negotiation, right? Not to mention until otherwise shown we are a 4 win team and still needing more pieces along the O-Line and other units.
How would you navigate this? Capologists, is this as daunting as I describe?
Any contract extension they sign this year is not based on the current cap, it's based on future cap space. And they have PLENTY of cap space in 2018 and even more in 2019. You can structure contracts in such a way that the weight of it falls on 2018, not 2017.
And yes they have enough 2018 space (let alone 2019 space) to write deals for Donald AND Watkins AND Ogletree.
They just do not have cap problems.
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