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Originally Posted by barrett
This is pragmatic, except you cannot operate on the assumption that you get an 80% salary cap. Bellichek isn't good to give away 20% of his cap and put together a complete team. You have to operate like Watt will be here and then cross your fingers he is. The truth is that we are handicapped for the next 3 seasons or so until he is gone. Too bad that will eat up the window where we could put a team around a cheap rookie contract QB. By the time we get Watt off the books we'll have to pay Watson all of that money. So no shortcut through the cheap QB like Seattle got.
But back to your statement, if you try to plan like Watt won't be there while keeping him on because fans love him, then you are doomed from the start with 80% of a roster. At least if you plan on him playing you aren't doomed until September.
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Speaking of being handicapped by big contracts:
While I like Clowney and recognize his value to the team which probably now is that with or without Watt he is the new Alpha male on the defense, but as Gruden said last night Clowney is possibly on the verge of realizing a bigger payday than any defender including JJ ever got and I wonder about the wisdom of the Texans doing that deal with Clowney especially considering the likely opportunity cost involved ?