Bye bye DK its just a matter of time now.
You're right, because it's
always just a matter of time. The average career for a player in the NFL is about 3.3 years. And even Jerry Rice's exceptionally long career was 20 seasons, 16 of which were with the team that drafted him.
Of course, that's not what you meant, and if we address your actual intent, you were dead wrong. Metcalf is now signed through 2025. OK, I can see that the final year is set up in a way that both sides will have incentives to extend the contract if Metcalf has been good in the 2022, 2023, and 2024 seasons or end the relationship if he hasn't. Still, the Seahawks have Metcalf for at least three seasons.
I get the argument that a longer-term contract is a way to potentially save money, but it might not be if you look at the money as a fraction of cap space rather than in absolute dollar amounts. Yes, top WR salaries just took a big jump, and we can expect some of the best to push the ceiling further in the next few years, but the salary cap is also expected to grow a lot in the near future. Also, as others have pointed out, it's not 100% clear that Metcalf will be a top-ten receiver. In the end, I think this is a good contract in risk-management terms.
What I don't get is the gleeful "(b)ye-bye, DK. It's just a matter of time now" (I edited the text to avoid filling it with "(
sic)," but I believe I kept the meaning and tone intact) in
@Chawker's post. You sound like the 49ers fans who troll other Seahawks fan sites I've frequented in the past. Are you rooting
against the Seahawks? Why such pleasure when you incorrectly believed the Seahawks would be losing Metcalf to another team soon?
. Going into next years draft with 3 first rounders and 2 second rounders would be a nice way to get that next QB and fill in the holes we don‘t address with young talent from this years draft.
