Not to mention there's no QB or pass rusher available for that kind of contract right now anyway. So that money isn't going towards either.
Being able to walk away from AB relatively scot-free 3 years from now and paying him a decent chunk of change before then is the exact reason we went to all that trouble to clear cap space in the first place. We just had one of the more unwatchable years in recent history, and it was all to say "too rich for my blood?" Really?