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Originally Posted by Weitz
Considering most pundits think he will be signed by the end of July 2017 there will be zero offer sheets. Not to mention.. Are there any teams that can (and are willing) to add that sort of salary straight up?
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Do you have a source on this punditry? Haven't heard a single person say they think it will get done a year in advance and don't see why it would.
The difference in this negotiation, maybe different from any other RFA negotiation to ever take place, is that McDavid decides what his contract looks like, top to bottom, no questions asked. There are not two sides here. So if McDavid wants 8x12, then he gets it. If he wants minimum term x maximum $, he gets it.
So what does he (and his team of people telling him what's good) want? I don't know, I have my suspicions, but I don't know. Do you know? Do the pundits know?
My suspicions say there's not a lot of loyalty here yet so why leave money on the table? The obvious answer is to build a winner, but really what leaving money on the table means is Chia has an easier time dealing with all the dead money on the team. If I'm Connor and agent, and I see the 20 odd million poorly spent dollars, I have serious reservations on essentially paying an Eberle out of my own salary.