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Well, I think it depends on the actual numbers. The way I see this, CAA and France have figured out that you can take advantage of this idea of "Next Man Up" by forcing a 4 year deal. The way teams like to work contracts, and the Cowboys are no different, is to work a deal where you pay big dollars over multiple years and then in the last year of the contract, they restructure and push the remainder of the money on the contract into future cap years. It is beneficial to be able to create this flexibility in your cap so that you can sign guys down the road, while still paying players substantial amounts of money. Yeah, when their careers are over, we carry debt in future cap years but it still seems to work for teams who use this approach. What CAA has figured out is that if you create a contract that forces you to limit the years you can spread it out, you then can force teams into a position where they forgo the Tag, in exchange for more years. What does that do for you? Well, once you get a team in a situation where they have so much money hitting the cap in the last year of a contract, once you have no ability to Tag a player, then you are either forced to have a firesale and gut your team, in order to get under the cap and pay off a contract or, you suffer the loss of a key player on your team with zero compensation. What does that do? It basically creates a situation where the agent and player have all the leverage. The follow on contract that teams ultimately agree to are stupid expensive and that's the end game here. If CAA and Dak can negotiate that deal, where you wave the Tag in exchange for the fifth year, guess what, your going to see another record breaking deal that's going to burn down the entire cap structure for the Cowboys eventually. The numbers will be stupid and we will have no choice but to accept it. That's the real goal for CAA IMO.
I agree that it’d be stupid to waive the right to tag just to buy an extra year on the deal now. I can’t imagine we’d actually do that.