5_Golden_Rings":3kj0bogp said:
2019 what they'd have to pay these guys:
Donald: (calculated market value: ~19.5 million)
Cooks: ~14.8 million
Suh: ~14.2 million
Joyner: ~10.6 million
Peters: ~10 million
Talib: ~8 million
Gurley: ~10 million
Three starting offensive linemen tallying: ~10 million minimum
Sam Shields: whatever his market value will be it will be higher than they'll be willing to pay
However many role players, such as Tavon Austin, they want to keep. Ignoring them, they're already looking at, based on the above: Roughly 100 million dollars for 11 players.
They are not going to be able to keep this team together. One to two seasons maximum. and then they'll have to pray that Goff can take a step up and be the reason the team wins rather than merely a contributor.
Two things:
(1) Ignoring Tavon Austin isn't some kind of caveat. You're ignoring Austin because not even his mother believes he's going to get to see that contract through.
(2) Roughly 100 million for 11 players sounds crazy, but next year they already have roughly 100 million in free cap room, so you're basically saying that they can keep their team together if they want to.
And once you start factoring in that the dollar value on contracts often gets backloaded and that that the cap is going up by 10 million per year or so (if that continues, by the time these guys are really breaking the bank on their next deals the cap will be WELL north of 200 million) it's totally possible.
It's like how 9ers fans constantly insisted that the Seahawks couldn't keep their team together because 9ers fans didn't really understand how operating during a rising cap era is really different than during a flat cap era.
TBF the Seahawks are currently breaking up their team, but that's not because they HAVE TO, they're doing it because they want to, and for reasons that don't really have much to do with the salary cap.