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Been saying for a while he's overrated and a terrible drafter but still surprised by this move. They just extended him. Considering also how late they fired him, I think it may be for personal conduct and not on field performance.

Restructuring is also not free money. Restructuring Goff frees up a lot of cap space but you are spreading it out and tacking on void years. You are basically stuck with Goff for the next three years at least. Given he's 31 and probably has several more years of prime, the Lions will be fine with that. Restructuring someone like McNeil I would hesitate. He's a big man coming off a serious knee injury and didn't look good. I'm not sure I want to chain myself to him right now. Sewell and St Brown are pretty safe restructure candidates. Again, there is risk to restructuring.

You cannot restructure contracts in perpetuity.

Sewell you would probably want to restructure next year or the year after. St Brown probably 2029 at which point you may just sign him to an extension.

Exactly, it doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why the Lions have been smart and planning this out for several years in advance. You don't think they don't know the cap will go up? It's why we are starting to see the cap hits for Goff, Sewell and St Brown start to go up.

As it stands, they are $7 million over the cap. That is even after rolling over $20 million. Had they signed someone like Zeitler to the $9 million he got with Tennessee, that would be $16 million they would be over this year. Even these one year deals have future impacts. The easiest right now is to restructure Goff. Lions can create $43 million in cap space. That also means you are committed to Goff for at least the next three years but I think the Lions are fine with that. Releasing Decker gets you another $12 million. Releasing Glasgow gets you another $5 million. That puts you at about $57 million in cap space. Now you got some free agents you may want to re-sign like Robertson, Anzalone, Lopez, Muhammad. Keep in mind that even if you don't extend Gibbs and Campbell, if you pick up their 5th year options, they are do for significant raises. You also want to re-sign Laporta and possibly Branch. Guys like Hutchinson and Sewell and St Brown are in for raises. That cap space will dry up quickly.

The Lions are literally over the cap with a chunk of their roster getting more expensive the next several years plus others they need to extend.

I thought Omar was married to her brother? Are we done with that conspiracy?

Modern day Slovenia is pretty nice. It’s one of the most literate countries in the world so MAGA wouldn’t make it there.

It was a communist country for most of Melania’s time there.

Breaking the bank in free agency means you lose someone like Gibbs, Laporta, Campbell, Branch.

So the veteran QB he mentioned was Culpepper?

I have my doubts he makes it to free agency. Either he signs an extension with Baltimore or gets franchised.

Paye did line up opposite Hutchinson at Michigan.

Anzalone is gone. He’s over 30 and will make too much. They can free up about $40 million by restructuring Goff. He doesn’t appear to be going anywhere in the next three years so there is little risk.

I’ll say worse since Swift only netted a 4th and he was younger and more explosive. Montgomery also doesn’t have a cheap contract. They may not have a trading partner at all.

Kind of wondering if Petzing changes the equation with Montgomery? I would think he would understand at this point he is clearly RB2 but can still be a valuable cog.

Really like Daniel Bellinger as a free agent. He has connections to Kafka, is a good blocker, and has great hands. Makes a lot of sense for TE2.