Lavonte David remains a Super Bowl champ - re-signs for 5 years/$25M ($20M gtd); the last three years voidable

[bucsfan333]

 

[Forge]

That's a steal

[djw4bucs]

Apparently only 3.5 mil cap hit this year, someone in our front office is a genius 

[bucsfan333]

2 minutes ago, djw4bucs said:

Apparently only 3.5 mil cap hit this year, someone in our front office is a genius 

Mike Greenberg is good at his job.

[SBLIII]

2 minutes ago, djw4bucs said:

Apparently only 3.5 mil cap hit this year, someone in our front office is a genius 

Rick Stroud on Twitter: "Bucs creatively added 3 extra void years which makes his salary cap number around $3.5 mil this year" / Twitter

[bucsfan333]

Just gotta get Shaq signed and we're doing alright.

[mountainpd]

Great piece of business and good to see he took a home team discount after last year.

Barrett to go and then they are Super Bowl favourites.

[Broncofan]

Just now, djw4bucs said:

Apparently only 3.5 mil cap hit this year, someone in our front office is a genius 

It's not team-specific genius - it's just going to be the MO for most deals this year, because of the insane gap between the 2021 cap & 2022-23 cap numbers.   Remember that the 2021 cap pre-Covid was supposed to be 210M+ or so.   The new 188M number (up from 175M) is because of the one-time Covid stadium attendance $ losses - all recouped in 2021.     2022's cap was estimated to be 220M pre-new TV $.   That's the likely floor, and the actual number is likely a LOT higher.  So it makes sense for teams to backload heavily this year.

I know it was mentioned a few weeks ago that Tampa doesn't backload deals - but restructures and backloaded deals are going to be the norm this year, because of the crazy gap between 2021 & 2022-23 caps.    There's pretty much no reason not to do it - because the gap between 2021 & 2022 makes it smart business.   Keep your best guys, and you're still in good shape for 2022+.   This isn't the cap-hell backload & restructure-fest that teams have done with little to no regard for the future.  The actual cap structure with 2021 & 2022-23 encourages this.

I said before that Tampa GM Licht would go this way to keep the key core guys for 2021+ - given the cap savings for 2021 with David, and Godwin locked in, it would be a shocker to see Barrett go anywhere else.  

[FinSting]

Wherever Brady goes, players sign for less than market value to stay with him. 

[SkippyX]

1 minute ago, FinSting said:

Wherever Brady goes, players sign for less than market value to stay with him. 

So does Brady

[bucsfan333]

1 minute ago, SkippyX said:

So does Brady

Brady's already reportedly restructuring his contract to free up more cap space.

[SBLIII]

8 minutes ago, FinSting said:

Wherever Brady goes, players sign for less than market value to stay with him. 

yeah because they know they have about a 50% chance of going to the SB and 30% chance of winning it. I would return too.

[RaidersAreOne]

14 minutes ago, bucsfan333 said:

Just gotta get Shaq signed and we're doing alright.

You guys are repeating. Really what's your teams weakness if Shaq is brought back? Father time?

[bucsfan333]

Just now, RaidersAreOne said:

You guys are repeating. Really what's your teams weakness if Shaq is brought back? Father time?

It'd be pretty cool if we did. But quite a bit is gonna happen between now and next season.

[Emerica]

7 minutes ago, RaidersAreOne said:

You guys are repeating. Really what's your teams weakness if Shaq is brought back? Father time?

Lol how bout we wait a little bit