(03-14-2024, 08:51 AM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote:

(03-14-2024, 06:34 AM)jaglyn Wrote: He bet on himself, and in a way, it paid off

Dude can't get away from betting.  He obviously has a gambling problem. .... lol   - joking aside, he seems like a good guy so one can't blame him.

We essentially traded a 3rd round pick to rent a player for 1 year.   

Baalke Fail

As of right now, we've given out contracts worth a combined $79,750,000 with $44,050,000 in guaranteed money to Gabe, Darby, Savage and Morse.  Ridley got $92M with $50M guaranteed by himself.  McManus also signed for $3.6M with Washington.  I'm sure we're not done in free agency, but we still have outgoing free agents yet to sign elsewhere including Chaisson, Agnew, Quarterman, Smoot, Herndon, Claybrooks, etc as well.  None will get mega deals, but will continue to chip in to the total dollars spent on our former players.  Point is, we may very well be in line for some sort of comp pick next year unless we decide to cut Cam and spend more big money in FA.

EDIT:  Forgot about Duvernay and had a missing 0 on Darby which affected the incoming guaranteed amount.  The corrected figures are that we've given up contracts totaling $88,250,000 with $54,700,000 guaranteed, so that is similar to what Ridley got by himself though slightly less on the guaranteed money for Ridley.  Whether we get a comp pick in 2025 or not may be determined by who else we bring in versus what that list of outgoing guys gets in contracts in the coming weeks.

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