Are we being realistic with Free Agency expectations?

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(02-18-2022, 11:55 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Hobson is full of beans.  But so are the fans who say we should have spent $16 million on Thuney last year when we ended up with less than $6 million in cap space.  We could have manipulated the contract so that we could have had less than a $6 million cap hit last year, but then we would be looking at replacing 6 starers plus Hill and a bunch of other players for about $30 million.

Sure but there's also a chance that if they had made that signing they wouldn't have to worry about how to fill back up the roster until after their Super Bowl Parade.

I'm not heartbroken about not getting Thuney, though. There's approximately 0 chance he would have declined to sign with the Chiefs after they offered him 5yr/$80m ($32m guaranteed at signing). That's top of the market money AND a team that had hosted 3 straight AFC Championships/been to 2 SBs in those 3 years. 

Players might turn down money looking for rings, and players might turn down rings looking for money... nobody is turning down getting both.

I was more heartbroken about not getting Corey Linsley. Also using the exact contract he got from the Chargers, it would have cost about $2.5m more in cap space in 2021 and $5.6m more in 2022... so that's not bad at all.