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Re: Did We Shoot Ourselves In The Foot??
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Originally Posted by firstdown
Maybe someone can help me with this. Why are we going to pay the remaining 5 mil of his signing bonus. I understand it was a signing bonus but he wants out of his contract not us. I understanding the cap hit regardless of if we pay him I just don't understand why we are paying it.
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Because we were contractually obliged to. Why didn't we fight it? Because it isn't a big free agency selling point to race like mad to avoid paying players already on the roster.
Put it another way. We can get another $5 million. We can't get back our reputation if we screw someone out of $5 million.
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There's nowhere to go but up. Or down. I guess we could stay where we are, too.
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