Who do you sign? (With salary projections)

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(02-22-2022, 12:38 AM)Bilbo Saggins Wrote: 72 million let's see here:

Spain - 5
Moses - 8
Scherff - 17
Blyth - 1
Reiter - 1

that's 32 million for revamping the OL leaving 40 million

Bates - 13
Ogunjobi + Tupou + Kerr - 10
Apple - 3
OJ Howard - 4

That leaves 10 million left to play with.  I was very impressed with Uzomah and Hill, I'm just not so sure that 8 million would be good value for either of them.  You could get fancy and try to restructure Hopkins.  I'm probably more bullish on Hopkins than most, maybe cutting him and going after another center is an option.  They could try to tag and trade Bates maybe to the Cardinals for Hudson and a draft pick - I'd probably just keep him.  

I think you have to keep bates for at least one more year, see what he is (regular season vs playoffs). So I’m probably tagging him, and see if he signs a team friendly deal with more Guaranteed money.

My hot take was he was going to be the SB MVP, so I lean on the side of keeping him, but not at the expense of the OL. I think with the cap space we have, we can tag him and kick the can down the road. But he can be the best player on this defense.