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(04-30-2020, 06:27 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Giving a guy a straight up raise with no extra control is a terrible precedent to make that can lead to no good. Every single player in their contract year is going to expect to get some extra money too.

William Jackson, Carl Lawson, and Auden Tate will probably all want raises too, because why shouldn't they? They're on rookie contracts that are in contract years and are being underpaid compared to what the open market would pay them, too.

Good teams take advantage of when their players are making less to assemble good teams. It saw Seattle win a SB and be a stupid decision to not run the ball away from a 2nd one. If they went and started just giving everyone raises in their contract years because they were decent players, that team would have fallen apart in an instant.

Also on the topic of collusion, pretty much every other owner will hate you for it because it sets a precedent. 

Because none of those guys have been making the impact Mixon has year by year. Mixon's only year he didnt run for over 1,000 yards was his rookie year that he was under 200 carries. If Lawson was a 10 sack guy every year or Tate was an 800 plus yard guy every year and Jackson was getting 4 or 5 picks a year or shutting guys down like he did his first year then they could all ask for a bit of an increase too. If the players production is high then he can get a bit of a raise 5 million is not a lot for a RB like Joe Mixon and take into account he is a RB and his career does not last nearly as long as a WR ,CB or a rushing end that is in a rotation.