JP and BMitch go through some of the Commanders biggest in-house free agents, trying to decide which one's Washington should prioritize bringing back.
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00:00No, we, we were saying we thought chin might be a seven, $8 million player at a, at a safety
00:05position. That's not exactly the most high, highly paid on a football field. Well, the damn cap just
00:12went up another 20 mil chin might be a $10 million player now. Yeah. $9 million player. And you're
00:19probably guaranteeing money on a second year of that deal to get that done. So let's just round
00:25numbers. This thing say they want 10 of these pending free agents back. Right. Um, some,
00:33somebody that's not on fans minds, a guy like Cornelius Lucas, who has some real value,
00:40right? He can help you in a lot of different ways. He made almost three mil last year. Yeah.
00:46He'll probably make more this year. So to, to get Luke back in the building might cost you $4
00:50million. Okay. Now you want chin and Luke that is two players, one starter, one versatile backup.
00:58That's two players. You're at 12 mil of this 80 that everybody's so excited about.
01:02But see, that's the thing, Jay. It's just like the people that are excited, don't understand
01:08this stuff at all. They just think that they don't want to spend any money, but they think you have
01:13all the money to get everybody you want. When ultimately, once you go get a person that that
01:18begins to drop real quickly. And then if you want the guys that are going to, uh, command big money,
01:25then it leaves even quicker. So that's why, you know, a lot of times I hear people talking,
01:31I just don't respond because they don't have a clue what they're speaking on.
01:38Let's conservatively say it's 10 guys and conservatively.
01:45You sign them. They each roughly make five mil a year. Now you're able to structure this
01:50differently. Some of that money is signing bonuses. So it doesn't directly affect the cap.
01:54Some of it, you're able to spread out over X amount of years. Like they're going to be smart.
01:59If they sign 10 guys at an average of five mil, that doesn't mean that's 50 mil of their cap space
02:05gone, but you do have to take into account. They have a ton of pending free agents and they're
02:11going to try to bring some of them back. And I think of the 80 million, 70 million,
02:17whatever that figure is, and it seems to be fungible, whatever that figure is.
02:23What do you think B a third of it is going to be spent resigning their own guys? At least a third
02:30of it. It might be closer to 40%. Yeah. I don't know that it's half, but like people, you know,
02:36we open the phone lines up and they're like, Oh, you got to bring Wagner. Deami Brown's got upside
02:41Zacher. It's Jeremy Chin. Um, they want everybody, but they don't want to spend any
02:45money. You ever noticed that? That's what this is, man. What you got to do. That's why I don't
02:50care who comes on. I don't care if it's reporter. I don't care if it's her fans. They always want
02:56something, but they don't want to pay any money. That's not how it works. Doug, you know, like
03:03people don't even think about this. You know, you know, that punters are making four or five,
03:07six mil. Yeah. Washington has one of the best ones. You got to keep trust to me. That's a no
03:12brainer. You're going to pay trust $5 million next year. Just try to keep track of all this.
03:19When we talk about how much cap space there is. And I had, I saw a guy reply to me talking about
03:25the receiver. Oh gosh. I wish I could. I wish I could find it, but he wanted them to get Higgins
03:32and trade for Tyreek. And I'm like, okay. And you got to redo Terry's deal, right?
03:36And I bet you, I bet you, he don't want to pay top dollar for none of them though.
03:41He wants all of them. He don't want to pay top dollar for none of them. And then we'll be pissed
03:45off when you can't stop the run next year. This is not monopoly people. This is real money and
03:55you have to be able to make it work. And as I say all the time, you can't have just young or just
04:01old and you can't have just top dollar or just low dollar. You got to manipulate it a little bit
04:07so you can have a team that when somebody is building up, but they're not making top dollar,
04:12somebody else is starting to go out. So you just keep it rolling for you.
04:16Got to figure this thing out. Yeah, man. It's a, it's a complicated thing. And I just think
04:21it's important to point out to, to our listeners and the commander's fans that I think,
04:28you know, look to us for analysis B that yes, there's a lot of money, but they have a lot of
04:34guys they have to bring back. A lot of guys have to bring back and they, they know where
04:38they will spend money and where they will not.