Mike Hilton makes a statement

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(10-21-2021, 11:11 PM)pokin Wrote: The thing I don't understand is how do we come out ahead this year if we didn't end up spending all of the savings we got by only paying him 2.4M this year?  The Brown family comes out ahead by saving money but the team isn't any better off if they just roll that savings to next years cap.  If we are consistently 10-15 million under the cap year after year so we can roll it into next year's cap number all that means is that every year we are spending 10-15 million less on the team than we could be spending.

We would have the exact same team on the field right now if we had given Bates an extension.  We would just be paying more for it.

I don't like to leave money on the table but most NFL teams do the same thing.