Derek Carr won’t take a pay cut for 2025 but willing to restructure to help the cap

Elvis said

You and I are on the same page on all of this. The big fear is the dumb deals. I feel like we used to sign a few cheap mid tier higher upside / backups on other teams type players every year and now it seems like they find it more important to get bigger names (looking at you Derek Carr and Chase Young) that make too much and had under performed on their last teams. As though we could get more out of the players those teams couldn't get. There haven't been a lot of examples of that working, but the few that have (Brees, Vilma, DD) makes them keep trying.

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I agree on the Carr deal but I don't have a big issue on teh Young deal. I would have preferred no void year (I think there is one), but it's not a huge contract and I think it was worth hoping to see the upside on a one year deal at a position that is so vital and where they have zero potential solutions. My real fear is that they are going to turn around and give Young a largeish multi-year contract now.

The bigger issue to me is void years on the contracts of older players and I love Ak, but I'm still not sure giving him that new deal was the right move if I remove emotion from the deal.