Looking at the numbers, was the Graham trade planned all along?

Sad part is I do that too.

I thought the $2.4 did not include the Colston restructure. So, isn't it possible they are still a few million under?

Yeah that's my point. Was this a week of talks? A month?

Many are looking at this as a spur of the moment, knee-jerk decision when this was likely something Loomis has been working on since the season ended. He knew the number to get to and got there but no more.

And from what I remember the number included Colston estimated at $3m savings. But it has been a long day for me so I could be wrong. Either way going to over the cap and putting in Colston as a restructure puts us right at the cap (they have us about $800k over still but have been a little off before, and maybe Colston saved a little more).

Feels like a bit of an overreaction on Seattle's part to that final screwed up Super Bowl play. I'm sure it's not only that, but it seems to me that trading for Jimmy Graham is not the easiest solution to making sure that play never happens again... the guy already on the roster, Lynch, was.

Honestly, I think they wanted to move jimmy before last season. Just think the we/te negotiations struck a nerve with CSP. I have no basis for that other than a hunch.

I love the move.

@Laz, yeah if anything this seems like Seattle trying to fix it's red zone goal line woes. Believe it or not there was a stat that Lynch actually isn't the guy you want to give it to in that spot.

He's great when he gets a head of steam and that line has been huge in opening holes for him (he rarely hit in the backfield). Not enough people give credit to that line. But you can see anytime he gets hit early he is slow to restart even if he does break the tackle. This allows people to swarm him.

And on the goal line there are a lot of people stacked up to hit you early.

@pres pres organization was definitely upset with him for all that shite. He delayed filing on purpose so other teams wouldn't know the resolution and that clouded up negotiations. It basically made him untradable until it was resolved and iirc it was after the draft which killed any reason for us to trade him last year.

Just like us having no trade partners for Galette this year left us stuck with him (and don't be surprised to see him traded after June 1st or early next year), we were stuck with Jimmy because the WR/TE scared away all trade partners.

So maybe this was planned a lot further back than I originally thought. And sending him specifically to Seattle seems like a big frick you.

Basically getting rid of Graham saved us $2m on his number ($9m dead money cut down on the savings) but we still have to pay Unger his salary which is $4.5m so in total the move lost us $2m in cap space.

This was definitely not a salary cap move first, especially for this year(since we lost cap). This was far and away about football first.

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God damn ninjas with y'all god damn short posts. You know I like writing novels.