Time to give some props to Frank Pollack

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(11-29-2022, 08:12 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: Respectfully we aren’t remotely on the same page. The Browns/Blackburns honor contracts and love Mixon personally. It’s not even a 1/1000 chance he gets cut. They’ve made their investment in the line. They are moving on to sign Higgins, Joe, and Boyd ( another Brown favorite). They will likely try to retain Bates but he wants the money. They covered themself with Dax Hill. They’ve also got Logan Wilson to keep. They won’t do squat in free agency unless it’s to replace a player they didn’t want to lose. All the money is going to keep players.

Not since they started actually signing real players in FA. Just the last 3 years...

They cut Bobby Hart.
They cut Trey Hopkins.
They cut Trey Waynes.
They cut Geno Atkins.
They cut Giovani Bernard.
They cut BJ Finney.
They cut Cordy Glenn.
They cut John Miller.
They cut BW Webb.
They cut Dre Kirkpatrick.
They cut Andy Dalton.

What there's not even a 1/1000 chance is that they sign all of Burrow, Higgins, Boyd to extensions next offseason with Chase also needing one before 2024. Simply isn't feasible while maintaining an NFL-caliber roster for the rest of the team. Even less so while paying Mixon nearly $13m.

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Burrow ~$50-52m/yr
Higgins ~$23-25m/yr
Boyd ~$15-16m/yr
That's $88-93m/yr and I believe the 2023 cap is expected to be about $228m. Then in 2024 Chase is going to get ~$35m/yr (Justin Jefferson will reset the WR market again this coming offseason) and that'll put you at $123-128m/yr. Of course it won't all be equal yearly amounts and instead escalate from lower cap hits to higher ones. It's still way too much when you figure that's just 4 roster spots, 3 of them from the same position, and in 2024 they will be taking up roughly 1/2 of your cap space.