02-05-2020, 07:09 PM
(02-05-2020, 06:18 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: The only conversation Mixon is in with the elite backs I named is the conversation that goes "Is Joe Mixon as good as these guys?" "No." conversation over. LolSo what is your plan? Let all the top players walk and draft their replacements? You probably OK giving a player who hasn't played a game in year and a half more money than Mixon and Burrow make together. Or maybe keep Dalton for 18 mil also so he can hold a clipboard.
No matter what, Mixon is playing for $1.7m this year. Just because you want to spread out the cap hits to make it seem like you're proposing to pay him less, it doesn't change the fact you're proposing to give him $40m more for only 3 years more. That is paying $13.3m/yr. For a RB.
Except the equation isn't just Burrow + Mixon vs Dalton + Mixon.... it's actually Burrow + Overpaid Mixon vs Burrow + Mixon + *INSERT TOP TIER FA OL HERE*.
I'll take the same players plus the top tier FA OL, thank you.
Also worth of note, here's two RBs after 3 years:
RB A: 667 carries/2,757 yards(4.1 YPC)/29 TD
RB B: 693 carries/2,931 yards(4.2 YPC)/17 TD
RB A is Jeremy Hill, RB B is Joe Mixon. Nobody would have proposed giving Jeremy Hill 3yr/$40m extension after 3 years.
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If you really think Mixon is an elite RB, let him play his 4th year at $1.7m and prove it. You're already proposing paying him 3yr/$40m and making him the 4th highest paid RB in the league. What's the worst that could happen if he is somehow indeed the rare breed of RB that deserves paid in 2020? You have to offer him a few more million a year? That's a way better result than giving the guy $40m only to find out you paid Jeremy Hill 2.0 and you've already committed yourself to giving him a signing bonus and put dead cap restrictions on yourself if you need to cut him.
