Well, I guess that depends on how much cap space we need to sign Clowney. It's really not all that hard to create space if you have to have it. It happens pretty much every year. I also have a hard time thinking that as Clowney is reportedly lowering his asking price, we are becoming less interested and therefore make other moves that prevent us from signing him. I don't know what the numbers are on Mayowa, but I didn't expect they would re-sign Clowney and not add another role player type guy anyway. Now if we go out and sign Griffen after just adding Mayowa, then I think it would signal that Clowney won't come back and show our strategy to be having a bunch of "decent" guys that we can rotate and keep fresh vs building around 1 upper tier player on the DL. That was pretty much our approach in 2013.
Cutting those two starters should be enough to sign Clowney.
Absolute minimum is $1.05 million for a vet. He got 7 sacks and 3 forced fumbles last season and is only 28. You feel 3 million is too much I take it?
Yeah, I understand. I guess my point is if a $3M 1 year signing sabotages our opportunity to sign Clowney, then we have incompetent people managing our cap. Does anyone think Schneider is incompetent?? Maybe all this time shut indoors has people overreacting more than usual.
And if the team wanted to, they could get $8.5M more immediately by cutting Justin Britt. Short of cutting him, an extension could also free up a few million for '20. Cutting KJ Wright, while maybe not ideal, would also return $6.5M. That's an additional $15M instantly with a flick of a mouse if they needed it.
Yes we see things differently. Improving is hard. Don't feel throwing money at Clowney gets us there at all. I don't know if the defense gets better or not, but I lean to it will be better.
Right, thus my comment about the Seahawks could cut starters to sign Clowney if they wanted to go that direction.
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