I laughed too hard at this postSammy Haggar as the Dolphins GM - I can't pay 55...
I laughed too hard at this postSammy Haggar as the Dolphins GM - I can't pay 55...
I came very close to posting this exact clip in this thread earlier today.
This is my schtick. Stay off my lawn.
Fine. Then take this and be on your way.
Its amazing how many pages you can eliminate when you ignore the right people.
Tua-Haters
VS.
Tua-Stans
50 pages here we come!!!!!
Just going to leave the beneath for some on here to contemplate. Quite accurate.
Just going to leave the beneath for some on here to contemplate. Quite accurate.
Theres a few things going on in this post, first it is missing the hospital of injuries we incurred over the season and how that affected all sorts of facets of the team.I don't hate on him, but there has been a point in each of the last two seasons where he was on pace for more than 35+ TDs. He was, in fact, leading the league in TD passes going into the second half of the season last year. As you can clearly see, he ended up with 29 TD passes. It's less about where he ended the season and more about how he had to take a complete detour in order to end up there as opposed to leading the league in the category.
And of course, in the end, it's all about winning the games. His team went from leading the division to being the wild card, and then to being a first round exit.
I simply expect even better from him, and at $55M/year we should all expect playoff wins. He's a very good QB we should hope to keep, but is keeping him going to hurt the rest of the roster?
Those are some very solid points. One thing I would add to the point about freeing up dead cap space is that a Tua extension would seemingly reduce the margin for error in payroll management. Tua becomes a 50M risk (not a knock on him but just a fact) while the rest of the roster must be managed that much more successfully in order to maintain the same quality throughout.Theres a few things going on in this post, first it is missing the hospital of injuries we incurred over the season and how that affected all sorts of facets of the team.
Second is the salary concept. Right now, this year, Tua is what, a 25mm cap hit? Max cap hit would be about 50mm per year on an expensive contract? This year we are swallowing roughly 30mm in dead cap because of "still" Byron Jones, soon to be Xavien Howard, Baker and a couple others. Next year Jones' 10mm comes off the books freeing up 10mm with no changes in roster. The following year, Howard's will come off. Point being, we already kind of have Tua's cap space baked in for the next couple years with our huge running dead caps falling off. We can keep the caliber of roster we are currently deploying while facing no real steep cap hits we are not already incurring.
Absolutely!Those are some very solid points. One thing I would add to the point about freeing up dead cap space is that a Tua extension would seemingly reduce the margin for error in payroll management. Tua becomes a 50M risk (not a knock on him but just a fact) while the rest of the roster must be managed that much more successfully in order to maintain the same quality throughout.
I'd like to say that there will almost always be a Byron Jones and a Xavien Howard. A good baseball comparison of a guy who wasn't dead salary, became dead salary, and then returned to being productive is the controversial Marcell Ozuna (Braves). He's a perfect illustration of how a really productive guy becomes dead weight but really is a productive player -- dead salary is an unavoidable fact of investing in athletes.
I don't see any way around it, though. We didn't draft a QB, and there's not really a young-ish option on the depth chart that I think we would be grooming to replace the current starter. Therefore, locking up Tua makes more sense.
Why do people sound like they want tua to get the most money possible? Are people fans of tua or the team? If you are a fan of the team, you should want them to retain the player for the least amount of money possible. That means more money to add talent to the roster in other places, and a better team. Yet I get the sense there are many that are rooting for Tua over team?