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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Well people can shut up about trading him now.
I thought we had $3,000 cap space, how is this possible ? Capgate ?
And I assume this frees up enough space that we can keep Chandler Jones too.
Well it's a tad bit risky. Hopefully his early play from last year was due to recovering from cancer. Aside from the Chargers game after the bad start he held up well for the most part.im surprised we don't have more people decrying how terrible Solder is. Great deal for the Pats and Solder
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#Patriots give Nate Solder $20M fully guaranteed at signing & can’t franchise tag him after. Highest % of guarantee for a top 5 veteran OT
Jeff Howe @jeffphowe 59s seconds ago
Solder got a $12.5 million signing bonus and $20 million is guaranteed at signing.
Jeff Howe @jeffphowe 5s5 seconds ago
Solder's base salary in 2015 is now $1.438 million.
I could have been clearer but I was really just referring to right now. We certainly have a squeeze coming in the next few years but those decisions should come this off-season or next.How would it do anything like that?
At best, we can go with @DaBruinz's suggestion that it may have lowered his cap hit for 2015, but even if true, it would be minimal.
Either way you look at it, It added nice sums to the 2016 and 2017 seasons, which may actually make it more difficult to keep Jones. We'll have to see how it works out, but It definitely didn't free up future money, that's for sure.
I understand that those decisions have to be made.I could have been clearer but I was really just referring to right now. We certainly have a squeeze coming in the next few years but those decisions should come this off-season or next.
I was really just reacting to the talk of trading Jones 5 days before week 1 because we were 3,000 under the cap. I assumed BB had a plan and was not about to fall into the same trap he did with Lawyer Milloy.