Originally Posted by
ctchiefsfan
That is EXACTLY the worry. They all know we want to get rid of his cap hit. But the flip side to that coin is that there are several teams out there that either suck or are sort of a 6-10 to maybe 9-7 type team but haven't got anything but a loser at QB and have lots of picks and lots of cap space...Cleveland and Buffalo come immediately come to mind. So they have the treasure and they NEED to get to get a damned good QB and QBs like Alex don't grow on trees. Unless I'm mistaken he had the highest rating of any QB this season...yes, even higher than Brady.
So there *should* be several teams out there that want and need Alex and have the picks and cash to buy him. And yeah...they pretty much know that if they don't trade for him we'll cut him just for the cap space, but then they will wind up in a cap space bidding war where they might wind up having to offer $90 million or more over 3 years with probably $55 million guaranteed to get him. That's a big risk to take on a guy that will be 34 at the start of next season.
Being logical, nobody really wants him for just the 1 year he has left on his contract. And Alex doesn't really want to become a free Agent coming off 1 season with a 2cond or 3rd tier team and now being 35 in 2019. Alex wants 1 more BIG CONTRACT. So you trade for Alex and then ask him to renegotiate for a 3 year deal with maybe $40-$45 million guaranteed with only a $12 million cap hit in 2018. Alex would probably take it because it get's him an extra $20-$25 million in guaranteed money. BOOM! You've just locked in a damned good QB for 3 years with the ability to toss him after 2 years if he doesn't work out and only having to eat maybe $8-$15 million in dead money.
So there is really no way of telling what--if anything--we can get for him, but I think we have a very good chance of getting some good value for him. Not what we'd like but good value none-the-less.
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