BF004 wrote: ↑21 Oct 2020 09:41
So lot of JJ Watt talk hitting the twitter sphere.
I would love to add him, as I mentioned before and was ridiculed by guys like yoho.
I would be like $9-10 million to add him this year, depending on when we might add him.
That is about impossible to take on, so we could either have Houston eat some of his salary (they don't have much cap at all either) and would increase our needed compensation. However, Houston would still save a good $5 million and get draft compensation for him.
Or we could restructure and extend his deal, making it very palatable this year and next year, kicking that can down the road, which really wouldn't prevent us from signing on some of our FA's to some extent. Might be hard to add 3rd and 4th years for him where those cap hit are gunna be real big, not knowing if he body can make it that long.
But in terms of pushing in some chips for the next 1-3 years while we have Aaron, this is exactly the kind of move we should be thinking about.
I honestly couldn't even ball park what a 4 year (3½) deal might look like for JJ at this point in his career. Not sure if he is still worth that 17 per price tag, or higher, or if like 10 is more reasonable. Also no idea what he might consider to come to Green Bay. GB is weird because like no FA's willingly want to come here short of top dollar, except for the very very select few, who might be willing to do crazy things to come to GB.
I feel like financially it could be a bit of a push, given we could save 8.5 million from Preston next offseason, which would pretty much guarantee his exit IMO. So it certainly could be done. We could just wait till the offseason to get him for 'free' if the Texans do release him. Wouldn't hurt us in comp pick but then would no guarantee we would ever have a chance to get him.
I guess I would offer something like up to a 4th for Watt, redo his deal, lower his remaing base salary this year from 9 million to like 1 million, give him abouta $20 million signing bonus over 4 years (including this year), another vet min base salary next year, giving him cap hits of about 6 million this year and next, the 8.5 million savings from Preston would offset that to some extent. Then fill out the base salaries and roster bonuses for 2022 and 2023 to make both sides happy. Maybe around like 15 million in 2022 and 18 million in 2023. On paper that would look like a 4 year (3½ year) deal for about 50 million dollars. Which is really is more like 14.3 million per, rather than 12.5 million per since he would get the full bonus this year for half the season.
Anything much richer than that and I'm probably out, but never say never.
