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A second year played who has never played a meaningful NFL game is not the same as someone who has played a full season (assuming he stays healthy) with solid quality.
You don't generally get that player to be/remain your backup unless he was not scheduled to be an UFA...and even then on another team that player if unhappy with his financial lot in life might threaten a holdout unless he gets a better deal (like say Garcia did...leaving Philly for Tampa and then threatening a holdout this season because he wanted another raise comensurate with his overflowing self esteem).
When we let Damon Huard go it was not because we didn't like him as a viable backup, it was because he wanted $1.5M per in a long term deal. That was in 2003 when the cap was still double digits. Today the cap is substantially higher, but THAT player is routinely getting $3M plus incentives to sign with a team devoid a franchise QB or backing up a floundering youngster or injury prone pro bowler who will afford him some opportunity to start and perhaps even overtake him.
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