| BakoSaint |
03-02-2022 12:56 PM |
Tom Brady played to age 44. Will Andrus Peat surpass his longevity due to cap management?
Andrus Peat just had his disaster contract restructured for the second consecutive year, to save money on the cap once again by converting present salary and bonuses to prorated salary and bonuses. Peat is already an aging injury prone inconsistent liability. But our answer is to make him more uncuttable by increasing the dead money a cut would create, always taking the easy short term approach over the long term good, and effectively making his contract guaranteed for life like the NBA because the prorated cap hit to cut him makes it too costly to avoid paying his unguaranteed inflated future salaries. But with this tactic, Peat's cap number in the final year of his contract will likely reach $30 million or so, and we will likely be way over the cap that year due to this tactic of solving each years cap crisis by creating next years cap crisis with restructuring. The light at the end of the tunnel is constantly being walled in by our cap management strategies, as we are always 2 years or so from a clean cap, but we restructure so much that we end up the most over the cap in the league after 2 years. So, before Peat's contract expires in 2025, I forsee a restructuring that includes an extension to spread the cap hit over additional years, and during that extension I forsee additional restructurings forcing an eventual additional extension.
Does anyone see an end to Andrus Peats run as a Saint? If the priority is always the current years cap number it will always make sense to restructure and periodically extend his contract even if he is not a starter or reliable contributor on the field. The only limit I see is not Peat's age. 44 is no obstacle. Brady can be beat. The only obstacle I see is that Loomis is in his mid 60's. If Loomis remains as GM another 10 years and signs Peat to a 5 year extension just before he retires, that could get Peat to 43 years old as a Saint. If Loomis hangs on a little longer than that, Peat will have Bradys number.
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