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

ELLIASJWILLIAMS said
What you're saying you hope they do is exactly what they did last year. They signed a bunch of mid tier higher upside backups and the only "name" guy was Chase Young but they didn't give him a dumb contract. They even stand to get a 3rd round pick if he walks. Not sure why you refuse to give them credit for how they handled last year when it's exactly what you're requesting they do in 2025 (and likely what they'll do)

I meah check it out for yourself. Last years FA class was as low profile as it gets. Young was the 46th highest paid DE, rougly a #2 level contract. Loomis, the guy everyone loves to hate right now was apart of the decision making you're saying they need to do moving forward lol.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...-free-agency-tracker-offseason-moves-signings

Not many of those guys were high upside, mostly projected special teamers. I did think Gay and Amadi played fairly well for what we signed them for. But far too many bad signings like Cedric Wilson and Jamal Williams for my taste. Granted I guess I'm asking a lot from the same people who drafted Davenport, Foskey, and Payton Turner. And Young was only 46th in salary, we paid $13 million for him in total compensation and because of void years $9 million of that will be dead money in 2025.