The biggest double-tech contract numbers at the door of the NFL free agency weren’t hard to come by on Sunday, with quarterback Tessum Hill being signed by the New Orleans Saints on a guard – but in complete opposition – to a four-year, 140 million contract extension. Key words in that sentence: Absolutely votes.
In most cases of NFL agreement, it translates the line number as “completely meaningless”. In terms of what the extension suggests, this is not one of those cases.
There are many important signs of a hill extension.
What’s real about the M 140M extension of Tess Hill?
First and foremost, numbers: a complete million 140 million extension is not a real number. It’s a method used to further Hill’s current pay-cap hits and reduce its calculations this year. If you are an NFL player. Paying no attention to last week, you are familiar with teams cutting new deals with players and using volatile years to move their money further into the future, when more caps are available, becoming a maneuver this year when epidemic-related revenue Due to the shortage, the salary income for 2021 has reached 2 182.5 million. All you need to know about Hill’s deal is that the expansion years are void at the end of the 2021 season, which means he’s officially on a one-year contract.
Mathematics: On the hill.1 the cap charge was 16.159 million which has now come down to 8.41 million, the saints have saved 7.749 million on the cap this season. It saves 74.7749 million cap charges that will not be counted this year will be pushed in 2022 – until Hill signs a new extension.
All of this is important for two reasons. First, Hill still counts a lot against the hat, even if it spans two years, which should be an indication that the Saints still see him as a potential quarterback in 2021 and beyond. And second, the fact that he will count against next season’s cap whether or not he’s on the team then should inspire the Saints to start working on extensions during the 2021 season if he starts quarterback. And play well.
Is James Winston still a factor in the New Orleans?
Hill only appears to be in the running for the post next season for retired Drew Bryce, but his money and contract structure have already suggested he is a favorite for the job, especially if the team has yet to re-sign Jamis. Winston. That doesn’t mean Winston won’t be part of the Saints’ quarterback runoff in 2021. It simply makes it clear that New Orleans Hill wants to be part of that derby and the rest of its cap charge puts it already in a state of “start” level.
Speaking of factoring Winston in the picture, a source close to the quarterback told Yahoo Sports on Sunday night that he wants to stay in New Orleans and sees Saints and head coach Sean Payton as his ideal situation to get his starting job, not to mention a long-term deal. . If Winston is unexpectedly offered a starting job in 2021, it is likely to appear at this point whether it will eventually come down. The nice scenario is that Winston makes a deal to pay a lower base salary to boost his income, even if he wins an early job with an early season. The catch is that Winston could be offered a similar deal elsewhere, although he doesn’t have a year of acquaintance already in New Orleans.
Don’t expect Russell Wilson or Deshaun Watson to be candidates
Buffalo, New Orleans seems to be heading towards the point where we all doubt the Breeze retirement event: with the quarterback competition between Hill and Winston, but Hill is just the beginning ahead of the 2021 payroll effects. In an ideal situation, the Saints would see that one of those players would be eligible for a long-term expansion, which would be set in motion late in the 2021 season, using the franchise tag to make Saints Hill or even lock down. Winston if such an extension cannot be reached.
Lost in all of this is the evaporation of a “fictional” scenario that was never going to happen, which would have traded the saints for either the Seattle Seahawks ‘Russell Wilson’ or the Houston Texans ’Deshoun Watson. Not only would the Saints have had to enter the years of their roster or dramatically hammer future cap for such a signature, the franchise would also have had to hand over significant assets, including some key pieces of the current roster.
Hill’s cap-related extension kills any shot that happens, a more significant signal sent by the Phantom extension that sounded a lot louder but really the same quarterback scene we all expected.
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