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Originally Posted by GMScud
Here's what I want to know:
We were negotiating with Hall for the past few weeks, but it was my understanding that the stumbling block was the fact that we wanted to give him $12-$14M in guarantees and he wanted $16M. So how in the HELL do we end up giving almost $10M more in guarantees than we were originally offering (and $6.5M more than he was asking for)???
This makes no sense whatsoever to me. Anyone who can explain, that would be great.
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Ive said this is exactly what would happen for weeks. If only the skins had listened to me, lol...
The skins grossly underestimated the market conditions. As free agency approached, teams started re-signing their own players and were paying them much more than anticipated. Then oakland signed Aso to a HUGE, but short term contract and that raised the price. If the skins had just given hall the 16M he wanted weeks ago, they wouldnt have been in this situation. However, they were refusing to budge from their offer of 12M and in the end, got screwed over for it. In the end, we had a choice to make:
1) Overpay for Hall, OR
2) Pay a less talented corner the same money Hall initially wanted.
We chose the latter. I think it was completely foolish to spend this much on Hall and Haynesworth. If we were going to get haynesworth, then we really didnt need a cornerback of halls level, especially when we had Rogers under contract.
But now its done so we might as well live with it. For what its worth, Halls contract is very similar to the one carolina gave Chris Gamble. They are both very similar corners in my opinion, so maybe the price we paid isnt too bad when viewed in that context.
Also, if theres no salary cap in 2010, then it doesnt really matter to me what kind of contracts these guys sign,
as long as we can get all the guys we really needto fit under the cap in 2009.