And get locked in even further witha guy who didn't come close to earning his keep in year one of that deal? No thanks. I'm already looking at the 'out year' on the Lawrence deal, not looking to get locked in even deeper.
Do you forget that's how we ended up wasting tens of millions of dollars with Crawford?
And all of these offensive linemen have now become questionable bets. Smith and Martin with back and various other injuries, and Ferederick with the unknown of his Guillain-Barre.
I'm not comfortable reworking any of their contracts and getting further locked in with a team that ultimately went 8-8 last year.
Actions like that are based on being comfortable with players you know and fear of change. And they've never worked out in the past.
I'm encouraged about Tyron's improved health last year, but he's 29 with recurring back problems. Martin is 29 too. Frederick 28. They all have health issues now.
It's sad to think it, but even without the health issues, by age alone you don't want to extend them. GB took two years out of what should have been Frederick's prime. He may still peak, but he'll join Martin and Frederick on their glide paths to retirement soon enough. They may all play well a lot more years, but improvements will be from getting healthy, not fundamentally better.
Lawrence, Zeke, and Jaylon are all young enough but underperforming. I wouldn't extend any of them.
Jaylon in particular looks like a disaster. If you haven't seen him get stonewalled by a heavy bag at the Pro Bowl, you missed seeing a guy who's left leg just can't push. And his contract is guaranteed *for injury* through *2022*, while he looks plenty injured to me right now.
The guys we could push money out on - Collins.
Cooper and Dak will get minimum contracts for 2020 and huge signing bonuses. They're young enough and healthy enough to do it with. They're the big contract coming, but we don't really need to make space for them out of the current contracts. They're the guys we'll be carrying lots of new dead cap on.