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Nah, money wouldn't be a problem, not unless some team gives him a ridiculous overpay. We solved a lot of our long term cap issues by cutting the dead weight last week. Next year we'll likely let go of Von Miller and Dawson Knox. There's always more dead weight to shed. Allen will be extended before long, kicking his can another several years down the road. Etc. Chris Jones just signed a 5 year $158M contract. His cap hit in 2024 is a whopping $7.3M. We can come up with an eye-popping looking number that Armstead's agent sells to him, while in reality keeping his cap hits manageable and progressively increasing them year over year to match up with the normal salary cap increases. This is standard modern NFL cap management. Everything is made up and the points don't matter.

I generally agree but there aren't any big stars on offense available in FA this year. We missed the boat with Hopkins last year, that was definitely a glaring mistake. This year who are we missing the boat with? Calvin Ridley? No thanks for that contract he got. Hollywood Brown? Meh. All I want is a starting caliber WR. I have been on board with Mooney or Samuel or Reynolds. Two of those three remain. If signing Armstead means we can't even sign that caliber of WR, I'm against it. The passing offense needs to be a priority over everything else. But I think we have the means to do both IF Armstead really wants to be in Buffalo.

I think it just comes down to them not trusting Elam. Douglas gives us a very high floor at the position. I was 50/50 on moving on from him or not, I can see both sides of it.

I hear you, but we also gave up 8.5 yards per play against the Chiefs and our DL was nowhere to be found. It sucks that DL is still a need after all the investments, but that's the reality. And this DL draft class royally sucks after the the top few guys. Ideally we would be able to sign Armstead to get a true difference maker on the DL, then sign a mid-tier WR like Curtis Samuel or Josh Reynolds, then draft the best WR available in the 1st round. If we just sign Armstead and don't add to the WR room in free agency I will be disappointed.

I'm just trying to figure out what the plan is with Armstead if we sign him. I thought he played 3-tech for San Fran. So why are we even targeting him? I know DL is a big need but we can't keep spending big money on defense and ignoring the offense in FA.

Alright here's what I just heard on Arik Armstead - we asked him to give us last dibs to match his best offer. But there are ~10 teams in on him.

This is the Athletic reporter for the 49ers:

At the very least he'd make an excellent red zone target. The Chiefs took a cheap one year flyer on JuJu Smith-Schuster after some injury riddled seasons and it paid off for them. I would think Mike Williams would be similarly cheap and he'll know that playing with Josh Allen for a year would potentially boost his next contract.

Wow that is a surprise addition to comp pick bingo. I bet even Beane is pleasantly surprised.

This is a Trent Sherfield level signing. I really hope this isn't the end of our WR free agent shopping.

That article is wrong, he won't cost $19M. https://overthecap.com/fifth-year-option-projections OTC is estimating $13,387,000 because he didn't meet the requirements for any of the higher tiers. At that price you definitely pick up the option. He's arguably the best run stopping EDGE in the league and is still very young with a lot of upside as a pass rusher.

This is the first one I've seen reported: He's seen as a low 2nd round prospect.

Mahomes throws a slant to, uh, Isaiah McKenzie who runs 60 yards for a go ahead TD with 1 minute remaining. Sounds about right.

This is less than what we're paying Taylor Rapp this year... I really don't understand why Beane rushed to re-sign a depth safety. In a very team-friendly market we could have afforded to wait.

Why would we sign a starting LB? That would have been a terrible use of resources.

Yeah and I was hoping the likes of Rapp and Lewis and Morrow would be filled in by those cheap draft picks, not veteran contracts. Obviously the entire depth of the roster isn't going to be just rookies but can't these sorts of signings wait until we know what our draft class looks like?

This is where I don't understand the plan. We're prioritizing signings that have no business being prioritized. And we are apparently already almost out of cap space if Spotrac is to be believed. Do we have anything left to materially improve the offense?

Coming out in the draft the question on him was "is he a LB or a safety?" Four years later that question still hasn't been answered.

Hopefully a late round rookie or UDFA pushes him off the roster. Players 49-53 on the roster need to be on late round/UDFA rookie contracts, not veteran contracts. If we brought him in to compete nothing wrong with that.

Sure football is fun, but have you ever considered that life is meaningless and we all return to dust

Ugh I think we could have afforded that for sure, not a crazy overpay. Curtis Samuel and Josh Reynolds are still on the board.

I feel a lot better about the deal after seeing the numbers. $3.9M cap hit this year, and we can cut him next year for $3M in dead cap (or keep him for $6M), then void years of $2M and $1M in 2026 and 2027. His market must have been much worse than expected. To be honest I never understood the initial contract projections of $10M+ per year. He is best served as a backup/rotational EDGE.

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