Quote:Idzik, Caldwell, doesn't matter. That's a great deal and I know you were bashing them for the deal before knowing the details.


I feel like you were taking an backhanded shot at Caldwell there?

What? I never bashed anything. I just said there was no reward in one year deals like Amukamara's and only low reward in other short term deals (yes, low risk also to be fair). I said with our cap room giving him a long term reasonable AAV deal, like say 5 years 40 mil, would give us medium risk and very high reward...a good calculated measure given our cap situation. 

 

Turns out if the option is picked up it's exactly 5 for 40 haha. I couldn't have dreamed that there would be essentially an opt out after 1 year, as a deal structured like this has never happened before that we can recall. Somehow we got the absolute best of both worlds. 

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