Here's a thought....  Prior to this extension, Poz had a salary of $7.5m per season over the next 2 years.  Someone trading for him would be taking on the remaining 2 year deal and the high salary.  If Caldwell had wanted to trade him, Poz's value in a trade would likely have been minimal to nothing, due to a short overpriced deal.  

 

In this extension, the Jags lengthened the deal by a year and converted future base salary into bonus money today (presumably).  A team wanting to trade for Poz's services, would now more highly value a trade as there is now 3 years remaining on Poz's inherited contract and the base salaries going forward would be less.  There is a possibility Caldwell did the extension in order to set up trade value for Poz.  Hmmmmmm.   

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