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[Cbus cardsfan]

Who cares if they offered more guaranteed money cousins and his agent made it very clear that they didn’t want a longer-term contract… They wanted no more than three years so they could hit the market again while he is still at a young age in cash and yet again so your speculation is worthless…

No. It supports my theory that the Cards structure of their offers is causing a problem. If your willing to pay Brees 2 years at 30 mill/per why not offer Cousins 3 years at, say 33? He's younger and entering his prime. I'm guessing the Cards didn't want to be the first team to fully guarantee a contract. Which would make little sense to me. It's not like they were going to cut him 2 years into that deal. I guess there's the injury factor but Cousins has not had much of an injury history.

 

[GimmedaBall]

No. It supports my theory that the Cards structure of their offers is causing a problem. If your willing to pay Brees 2 years at 30 mill/per why not offer Cousins 3 years at, say 33? He's younger and entering his prime. I'm guessing the Cards didn't want to be the first team to fully guarantee a contract. Which would make little sense to me. It's not like they were going to cut him 2 years into that deal. I guess there's the injury factor but Cousins has not had much of an injury history.

Good point on the guaranteed money. The Vikes opened that Pandora's Box with Cousins' contract. Now every player will have that expectation when they sign their next deal. It will blow up the way cap money and FA is handled.

In the end, it may well hurt veteran players. Team owners will collude and agree to not go past a certain limit. We may well see guys not getting offers in FA or else getting one or two year contracts with guaranteed money instead of the extended contracts for more money. It will put a premium on drafted players instead of filling out the roster with veteran FA.

If a team needs a WR---go for one in the draft and pay the rookie scale as compared to signing a FA who wants big $$$ in guaranteed money to sign.

 

[cardncubfan]

I really wish more posters would acknowledge this. We all have our favorite players, and we are all dissatisfied from time to time with the players brought in. However, to think that any of us are smarter or have more insight to what is actually happening than the decision makers is just crazy and, in my opinion, delusional. People are complaining simply for the sake of complaining without even a hint of proof of what they are complaining about.

I should add in the context of the discussion that Gambo reported that Sam Bradford took less money to sign with the Cardinals. I don’t know how to copy tweets into posts, but you can read it by clicking here.

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[Gandhi]

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Thank you, CardNCubFan!

 

[tnmike]

Any proof to Bradford’s statement? Any reports he was offered more?

Taking Bradford’s word as gospel seems a little naive.

No thinking he's lying is just stupid

 

[AZCrazy]

Badger left in a huff because he was effectively replaced last year with a guy who's going to be our new star in the coming years on defense.

 

[GimmedaBall]

Badger left in a huff because he was effectively replaced last year with a guy who's going to be our new star in the coming years on defense.

Assume you are seeing Baker as the HB replacement? Baker did not replace HB---in fact, they worked together and complemented each other.

They played totally different positions on D. The only thing that Baker replaces is both he and HB are 'undersized' when it comes to DBs.

Seth Cox has a good commentary on how difficult it is going to be to replace HB in the slot and the role he and Baker played last year.

https://www.revengeofthebirds.com/2...ieu-in-the-slot-budda-baker-arizona-cardinals