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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
We 'easily got out of' Watkins by overpaying him for another season. We 'easily got out of' Hitchens by extending him to a deal it will still hurt to walk away from.
The point is that we've been able to 'easily get out of' some of those deals by absorbing fairly substantial dead cap hits or extending guys to deals that we simply won't be able to do with any frequency going forward.
And that's part of what's made the degree of difficulty lesser for him. While his competition in the division is dragging along $20+ million mediocrity in Rivers and Carr, he's got the biggest swinging dick on the planet at 1/4 of that AND a few HoF caliber talents that were on the roster he took over who are were also below market due to pre-existing contracts or circumstances not of Veach's making.
This job hasn't been a difficult one. Now that's not to take away from the job he's done - but he has had it far easier than most.
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He inherited a great offense. But that was a legit defense in the playoffs and he built it under extraordinary circumstances. And as good as our offense was we needed that defense big time in the playoffs. That wasn't generational talents like mahomes or Reid. It was barely Dorsey. Veach gets to own that one.