It's all numbers, The front office just doesn't want to pay top dollar but by not doing it they end up paying more because the next guy always gets more. The salary cap goes up, player salaries go up always. Just sign the guys, get it done, try to include some team friendly things on the back-end so you can get out of the contract. 3-4 years guaranteed isn't the end of the world for the level of players we are looking at.
the whole thing does not make sense.
1. they should have figured out whether dak and cooper are worth the $. with the giants, Commanders and dolphins, that was the best low-risk opportunity to get them a try-out without zeke. to be honest, i am more pissed at jerry about this than the overpay.
2. there is no large contract for other rb this year. highly highly unlikely. i highly doubt the sd rb will get 10m/year.
3. we are talking about 2 years + 40 million most likely - that is probably 5 years. it is highly unlikely that zeke's prime is going to last another 5 seasons. they overpaid by at least 1 season. no one knows the final structure, but that is probably at least 13 million. obviously that is more than what goodell penalized us for.