Pray tell how much of the core players are free agents? I'll answer from what I see: not many. Pretty much just pay Hollywood and then upgrade the roster. Also helps to have six top 100 picks.
Not even that much. Bryce Young got four year, $37 million. You could back load the contract too, to make the contract even more palatable short term.
Depends on whether there is competition to trade for KM.
OTC has it down at $69 million.
How much value did an older WR with a big cap number have? Especially with how Hopkins was acting and his reputation for not being a player who often participated in practice?
That's weird, because I've heard contracts are public knowledge after.they are filed with NFL and NFLPA...it's how Florio dissects them, like an attorney.
The overall details, but not the finer details. Agents have access to them, but the general public only gets to read/hear snippets of what is posted by agents.
Pretty stacked free agent class too.
Agreed, but you have to have contingency plans. The way things are playing out, the Cardinals have a ton of flexibility. They would have lost flexibility if they had foolishly signed some free agents this year during a lost season.
Maybe that argument gets lost… because the same exact people made the exact same argument last year when we also pretty much punted on FA.
Well it doesn't take a sharp mind to see the difference. When your starting QB is going to be out a significant amount of team on an already perceived bad team, why spend? You can roll over the money.
We couldn’t get our own players to re-sign here. There were several arguments that you can’t sign players who don’t want to come here. I don’t see that significantly changing. We will once again be one of the worse teams in the NFL.
Not only that, but if we do end up pretty terrible, players will likely look at the fact that despite an entire regime change…. the Cardinals were terrible. A terrible season with a new GM probably doesn’t help sell a narrative that things are different here now.
