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RockRam
If $20 + mil is the market, then it's the market. As much as it makes me cringe. And you either pay it or not.
I hear people on this board make the claim that sure, the Rams can pay it and not have any effect on their ability to sign other players. Well, that simply defies the laws of math.

People making the claim about Donald, like me, aren't saying what you apparently think they are AND we are very aware of the math. RR, old friend, you;'re just fighting there with your own misread.

The Rams have the cap space NOW, before any adjustments such as cuts, to sign Donald, Joyner, and Watkins. There are math based and cap aware reasons for saying that.

For one, no contract simply gets divided evenly from year to year. No one with a Rams contract that averages 20 M a year gets doled out 20 M each and every year. This is a very important fact about Rams contract structures. With extensions especially, they tend to put the biggest hit in the SECOND year of the contract.

That's what happened with Quinn for example. He signed an extension in 2014. That deal averaged around 14.25 M a year. But no single year was actually 14.25 M AND the the biggest cap hit year was 2015, not 2014 (it was 16.7+ M). The following years on that deal are in the 10, 11, and 13 M range.

That means something very important in these discussions. It means that the Rams tend to use future cap space to do big extensions and big contracts. So if they do that with Donald, it means that they can park the largest cap hit in 2019 instead of 2018. That takes some pressure off of the 2018 cap and makes a deal more easily doable.

So that's one thing.

Another is that absolutely no one ever said that signing Donald would have NO effect. Speaking for myself, I said that they can sign Donald, Joyner, and Watkins this year based on the cap space they have, and they can do it without cutting anyone (which doesn't mean they won't cut anyone...it;s not a prediction). That's just true. Based on the math.

BUT I ALSO said that that means that if they do it that way then they probably can't buy any high market FAs.

I think you got all that mixed up somehow and turned it into things no one said. No one is ignoring the math. We're doing the math. In my case anyway, the math is the prime basis for what I'm saying about signing Donald.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/21/2018 03:46AM by zn.