Put me in the minority here, I like Bouma plenty, but I'm not a huge fan of this deal. If his performance for the next three years stays at the level it was at last year, the deal looks good. If he regresses though and it looks like we're paying 1.5mil guy 2.2mil, we might really wish we had an extra 700k around to help lock up star players when they come off their ELCs. These type of wait and see deals (which it is IMO) can come back and bite teams. Even though amount of dollars may be relatively small, in a tight cap situation every dollar will matter.
That said, I'm happy for Bouma, hope he is content with the deal and continues to bring a lot of jam to his game to show he is worth what he got, and ideally more.
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