(02-01-2018, 11:30 PM)nhiverson Wrote:

(02-01-2018, 11:23 PM)Eric1 Wrote: You keep looking at it as if it's simply just one year. Yes, if it was simply one year, 10-12 million isn't a huge difference. 10-12m over 4-5 years really begins to add up and hurts you in every other area of the roster in the long run.

So now is where you'd come in and say that the salary cap keeps increasing so that wont matter. Yes the salary cap does keep increasing, as does the min salary paid to players each year. 1-2 years from now the salary cap will be higher, correct. But so will the cost of Ramsey and Ngakoue and every other player in the NFL.

We still would have to pay bortles 25+ mil next year if we stay with him. Cousins/fa qb or Bortles not much  in salary after this year.

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I am fine with sticking with Bortles for another year but I'd like them to bring in a diff backup and draft one also.

Not true if he wants to stay here and the popular opinion is that he's terrible anyways. You don't let Bortles hit the market, you run zero risk of other teams driving up the price.

Everybody knows Cousins is hitting the market, so his price is going to driven up ten folds.

Also another reason why I've been a fan of locking up Bortles on a 3-4 year extension right now at $17-20m. He has already said he wants to stay here, there's going to be zero influence from outside people to drive up his price and we're not having to shell out an extra $5-10m over the next couple seasons.

Draft a QB somewhere in the first 4 rounds and go from there. If Bortles flops after this season, his contract is easy to get out of and you move on.

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