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If you’re wondering how the Rams can pay all these players and the Raiders couldn’t, or wouldn’t, pay Mack, understand this: The Rams are borrowing dollars from future years. They are all-in on 2018 and are using the credit-card approach. That much is so obvious that the Rams should consider having Visa or American Express sponsor their jerseys. The Rams’ pay scale is not sustainable for more than two years. At some point, and soon, they will be faced with cap consequences and will be forced to get rid of good players and will have zero depth. The Rams know this. But their current situation requires having to sell seats and build a stadium, and they’ve decided to ignore the future for what lies at hand.
Anyone think he knows what he’s talking about?
Actually a better analysis of the Donald contract is that AD conceded things on the annual avg and on the years. He scored big on the bonus and the guaranteed money. It looks to me like AD took a little less on the annual avg. and gave a little on years and took advantage of the bonus and guaranteed money. That's a trade off.
BOTH of those things are direct advantages you get from having a cash rich owner. (Guarantees have to be backed by real cash, and bonuses get paid whole upfront).
What that means is that a cash rich Rams used its resources to lock in a generational talent while the cash poor Raiders could not do that.
In terms of future years? Yeah right. As many people who have actually looked at the cap have said, the Rams have enough cap space to lock in all their current core players by 2021, including Goff, and still have enough left for a couple more big contracts.
So Lombardi as usual is several perusals short of a clue.
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