rcaido
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Or the Commanders just got the better offer LOL.Sweats contract has a base of 11.5 mil and cap hit of 6.5 (or something close depending on where you look). It would have required Commanders to eat his entire salary/cap as NYG did for LW. I think it's pretty easy to think this through and see JS was probably driving the truck on these DL trades considering the timing, like dominoes falling. He chose LW and it was probably because NYG were willing to eat the cap hit for this year and WaDC wasn't. This gives JS the flexibility to re-sign LW or not. To get Sweat, he'd have probably had to re-work some other cap space and also extend Sweat to fit in under the cap. It would have required a long-term commitment to Sweat and whoever else he restructured. It's logical to assume JS was the conductor behind it all and got what he wanted.