JennetteMcCurdy wrote:Canadafan wrote:BDM22 wrote:
Cade's cap hold is $35M next year even if we hold out on him, which is just a hair under what he'll make on a max extension anyways. That's part of being the #1 pick. Cap is gone regardless.
Waiting on Maxey's deal helps Philly because his cap hold is only $13M because of how late he was drafted. Totally different situation. No benefit in waiting unless you want the option to let Cade walk for nothing.
Alrighty,so it's set. We can't kick the space down the road. This is the summer to spend....we build around Cade by adding players to our young core with our cap space. Including adding another young player by draft. Or we trade the young guys with our pick to add an impact player thats hopefully as good or better as Cade and then build it out with remaining space....or.... we trade Cade. Tank for Cooper
I like Cade - not as much as Vecenie, but I like him. With that said, if I’m choosing between (1) spending all the money to vault us to 30 wins, or (2) hitting the reset button with a new HOBO and a star-studded draft next year, I’ll go with option 2.
That has been my take too, to trade Cade and whatever other players have value and start over with a draft asset surplus. However, the point is, there is no cap to be had next season by waiting on Cade's extension. Can't kick the can down the road and try again next year. You either trade him immediately or extend him. No benefit in waiting like Philly w/Maxey.
I do think we could get a few 1sts for Cade. I wonder what San Antonio would give. Probably could get a mid-late 1st for Stew. Probably one 1st for a re-signed Fontecchio next year (unless his contract is crazy). I'd probably give the keys to Ivey in that situation, let him improve his value from this year and then shop him by next year's deadline. Happy to ship off Duren as well.
Hang on to Ausar and this year's pick since they're on rookie deals for a while.
Then you start looking at teams trying to duck the tax that might be willing to attach assets to get off of bad contracts (and I'm talking multi-year contracts, not this Joe Harris stuff). Could come out with like 6-7 extra 1st rounders in the end.