2017 Cap Space

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(06-02-2017, 12:48 PM)Au165 Wrote: Eiffert...

(06-02-2017, 02:23 PM)Au165 Wrote: No, you structure a deal that if he stays healthy reflects his ability and if not you pay him as a slightly above average starting TE.  This allows him to be paid if he is healthy and if not he make decent money for the games he plays. The recent Gronk extension is the blue print for Eiffert.

An Eifert deal right now makes 0 financial sense. He can't stay healthy and is only making $4.8m in 2017. If he stays healthy for once and does what we know he can do, why would you give him $9-11m/yr (and risk him getting hurt again) when you can franchise tag him (it was $9.8m for this year) and then franchise tag him again.

So you could either... have him play year-by-year and essentially have him on a $4.8m/$~10m/$12m "three year deal" where you can bail out any year. Or you could extend him and pray you don't waste a ton of money when he gets hurt again.

One of those two makes a lot more sense. You can have him for his age 27, 28, and 29 years for essentially $26.8m, which is a lot cheaper than any contract he will be willing to sign right now, while also retaining the ability to not pay him in 2018 if he gets hurt again in 2017, or not pay in 2019 if he gets hurt in 2018. Then he'll turn 30 and hit FA.