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(04-30-2020, 06:17 PM)BengalsBong Wrote: I agree pay Mixon he is going to earn 1.4 million I think is what I heard he is worth a lot more. Even if you do not want to give him a big contract this year and want to wait till next year you still got to throw him a bone. Offer him a 4 million raise to 5.4 million and tell him that he will get a new contract next year. He is a big durable guy I do not think he will worry about not being healthy for his contract next year.

Giving a guy a straight up raise with no extra control is a terrible precedent to make that can lead to no good. Every single player in their contract year is going to expect to get some extra money too.

William Jackson, Carl Lawson, and Auden Tate will probably all want raises too, because why shouldn't they? They're on rookie contracts that are in contract years and are being underpaid compared to what the open market would pay them, too.

Good teams take advantage of when their players are making less to assemble good teams. It saw Seattle win a SB and be a stupid decision to not run the ball away from a 2nd one. If they went and started just giving everyone raises in their contract years because they were decent players, that team would have fallen apart in an instant.

Also on the topic of collusion, pretty much every other owner will hate you for it because it sets a precedent.