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The Athletic reports that Marty Hurney will stay on as GM, and is negotiating contracts for Bradberry and Boston


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Just now, Smithers said:

Hurney has not handed out a bad contract since returning.  Just stop it with this nonsense. 
 

Paradis is a bust, but most teams would have paid him what we did considering his tape.  

The Short restructure was brutal. Part of the Paradis evaluation was the injury situation. We gambled and lost. I'm not super upset about that one, but that Short restructure...

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Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

The Short restructure was brutal. Part of the Paradis evaluation was the injury situation. We gambled and lost. I'm not super upset about that one, but that Short restructure...

Short was a pro bowler coming off a down year when the entire team crapped the bed.  He would have got that same contract on the open market.  And our defense got noticeably worse once short got hurt.  

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Just now, Smithers said:

Short was a pro bowler coming off a down year when the entire team crapped the bed.  He would have got that same contract on the open market.  And our defense got noticeably worse once short got hurt.  

Do you understand what happened? He wasn't a free agent. He was under contract. A contract inked by Gettleman. Hurney took that contract and converted base salary to bonus creating more guaranteed money in the deal and greatly reducing our cap flexibility to create additional cap space immediately. This is a big part of how he created such a cap mess in his first tenure.

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3 minutes ago, mjligon said:

and his on field performance will show we overpaid

If that’s the case than we overpaid for Luke as well.  The entire defense was bad this season.  Shaq did his part and played hard.  He was 100 times better than Eric Reid, who some people think should be making double what he is.

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