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Originally Posted by RunKC
Dorsey paid Tamba when he was old and busted. He gave him a 3 year contract extension and Tamba made 1 tackle for that contract. That was our return 
I don’t think we need to discuss Eric Berry and his paralyzing contract that we will still be paying to this day. Pretty sure we owe that guy $8 million alone next season.
It’s about as bad as Frank Clark if you consider that both Tamba and Berry were only on the field (off and on) for about 10 of a projected 144 games for the life of those two contracts combined. |
Hali was a mistake; a panic move born of Houston's injury. Ultimately the biggest problem with that one was the weird timing of it, but it's also probably its most obvious explanation. They set a few million dollars in cap space on fire by allowing those 'voidable years' to lapse just a few days prior to reaching an extension. There was no reason not to roll those in and push that cap space out a bit. It would've made little difference long-term (would've washed by year 3) but if they'd have had any intention of re-signing him, they'd have never let that happen. But the lack of progress on Houston's knee screwed them up.
The Hali deal is admittedly not great - hate seeing a panic move like that - but nothing approaching Clark. At least the Hali deal was a result of injury; the Clark deal was hubris. In fact, the Hali deal doesn't even get to Hitchens level and Hitchens is like 4th on Veach's hit list in
two seasons. All told it was a 2 year, $14 million extension that they got a mediocre season out of (2016) and a lost season in 2017. I mean....is that any worse than Okafor's deal? And most seem to think that Okafor's deal is a GOOD one for Veach.
You're REALLY gonna put Berry on Dorsey? Most folks seem to think that Dorsey holding the line on Berry and refusing to capitulate to Berry's representatives ridiculous demands ended up pissing Clark off and contributed to Dorsey's firing. Absolutely not - there is no way you hold Eric Berry against John Dorsey. Dorsey desperately tried to avoid that trainwreck until Clark got himself involved and ****ed everything up. That's pretty much a matter of public record at this point. No way - that was 100% Clark Hunt.