re: Anybody else think we might not resign Nick Fairley???

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I look at the Patriots who never do it and they have five rings with a QB equal to ours in talen

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The Patriots do sometimes handout big contracts to their blue-chip players. But not all of them, or even half. Many times they release them. But the best of them they do keep. However, the difference for us is that the Patriots are much better at talent acquisition so they are in more of a position to do this than we are.

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7-8 million a year is right at the edge I'd be uncomfortable with. 6.5 a year is where I hope we land. Over 8 million I say we let him walk we have two good young guys with onyamama looking solid at times and still a raw player.

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I might have agreed with your numbers in 2013 or so. The rising cap makes that an impossible number. There is no way that Fairley will sign a 6.5M/year deal. That is very low. As long as the cap continues to rise as much as it is every year, the average value of contracts will rise. We have to be more open about this when we consider what we are spending. We all feel we overpaid for Fleener last year, but realistically it was a market value contract and 2 years from now it will be chump change compared to what will be being handed out. Fairley getting 8-10M is what it is going to take, and 8-10M in 2017 is 5-7M a few years ago.