I'm not a fan of some of the proposals being thrown around in this thread. The fact is that he's 32 years old and will never replicate this season's production. Offering contracts based on past performance is a bad way to do business in professional sports as you have to be realistic about where he's going to be on the back end of the deal. I simply don't see how you can offer more than a five year deal to a player that will be 33 years old at the beginning of the deal. It's simply going to handcuff the team when their young guys require getting paid. Personally I would offer a front loaded deal for four years giving him $7 million over the first two seasons dropping to $4.5 so the average cap hit is less than $6 million so the contract isn't an albatross in the last year of the deal.
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