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Originally Posted by Direckshun
So here's a theory.
Steven Nelson is about to hit free agency in 2019. Chiefs are on the phone, and they're offering 3 years at 8m/year or whatever. Nelson's agent tells him a couple teams will offer him 11m/year.
Nelson is a supremely confident guy but he can't ignore the Marcus Peters situation, can he? Peters' lack of system fit and worse coaching than what he had in Kansas City has probably now cost him tens of millions of dollars on his next contract.
Any chance Nelson looks at that and thinks to himself he could make more money long term by staying a Chief?
Sure he loses about $9m total, comparing a 3 year/$8m per year deal to a 3 year/$11m per year deal another team might offer him.
But!
He'd almost certainly have a shot at a real money contract in 2022, whereas if his play fell off on another team with worse coaching, his big money contract days may be over.
Anybody else think that's a real possibility? I need BossChief in here; this feels like a very BossChief theory.
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Anyone in the NFL who's willing to take less money on his 2nd deal (a 3 yr deal no less) to try to make money in his 3rd deal (at 29 yrs old) is an idiot. I mean a truly unmitigated idiot.
There is no way in hell I would ever recommend that to an NFL player if I were his agent, especially a 'skill' player. You're literally 1 step away from never being relevant again.
On that 2nd deal, you get every thin red guaranteed dime you can and you worry about 3 years from now in 3 years because the odds overwhelmingly suggest that you're going to be of little use to anyone by then anyway.