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Go, Go now! I thought I had it bad in a redraft with Engram, Waller, Henry. I can't get legit offers.
Waller has been excellent, but it's also been just half a season. He's a widely noted former drug addict and as such it makes sense to reward him with a nice bump this season, but then protect the team with a pay-as-you-go deal with top-ten TE annual salary, if he keeps his head straight and performance up. For whatever reason, Waller and his reps took the hand-bird money now (rather than wait until this offseason) and bet on him to keep playing at a high enough level to satisfy the Raiders over the next four years.
I am pretty sure they can offer guaranteed money that would be voided in the event that Waller popped for a substance. And while it has only been 5 games, he's been damn convincing to me. He's an absolute freak. I'd have no problems betting on myself in his shoes or those of his agent.
Are you sure it's guaranteed at the start of each season? OTC shows that it all falls under base salary, which would be paid on a game by game basis, if I understand correctly.
Not 100%, but I thought that any veteran player who is on the roster week 1 has his base salary then guaranteed for that year. My understand was that this is why vets are often cut to end preseason and then re-signed week 2.
He's an addict. I'm pulling for the guy, but that's a life long battle. It's smart of the Raiders to protect themselves. Even if Waller does relapse and #### up, I'm damn sure Mark Davis will try get him the help Waller needs. They won't leave him out to dry completely.
It’s certainly smart to lock him up with no risk. But they could have protected themselves from substance related issues and still given him some guaranteed money.
Yeah, I dunno that it's as black and white as you are making it. Addicts are often people with underlying mental health issues, who are essentially self-medicating. He doesn't need to pop on a drug screen for some of those old demons to resurface and affect his play.
Waller is the only party assuming any risk. That would not be the case had he waited until he had leverage next season. If the Raiders didn’t want to assume any risk, another team would have. Look at what Trey Burton and Cameron Brate got recently; Waller was going to get PAID. Waller put a cap on his pay ceiling and didn’t get much security in return
Definitely agree to disagree, respectfully. I don't see this as a huge win for Waller, but I definitely don't see it as a bad deal either. I think if it were so cut and dry that he'd get some gigantically bigger deal down the line, then he would've waited. Something compelled him to take the bird in hand. I suspect his agent said hey, take the $10 MM now, then play well enough to justify $7MM per annum later. And if you exceed that pay with your performance, we'll just hold out in two years when there are two years left and get you and even bigger, market-adjusted deal at that point, after you've already pocketed $17MM from this deal. If he's playing well enough to exceed the annual pay of this deal, then that means he'll be playing well enough to have significant leverage in a future holdout. IMHO
Love presence of Moreau as dynasty insurance. Picked him up cheap. He looks good and l'll gladly lose 10-15% production in premium for that kind of insurance policy.
As a Raider fan, it's great to have viable targets emerge. As a Waller owner, it's disappointing. It is likely that Waller isn't going to have a big second half of the season. Carr just has other options now.
....he went 7/126/2 three weeks ago and he's still improving. This seems like an overreaction because he's had some down weeks like any other TE.
Well, Rivers got sacked instead. Raiders need to score quickly so SD can abandon their effective run game. That's the only reason for SD to abandon that run game. Gordon is running at will.
Raiders used to move him around to put him in winnable match ups frequently. That has stopped.
Way too premature of a take. The entire Raider receiving corps didn't light up the scoreboard -- no one had more than 43 yards, and the best receiver was Richard who gained all of his yards in the last few series.
Should have been a TD; Carr underthrew the pass. Waller has a clear path to the EZ with a better ball.
Yep. Things just haven't b one our way lately with Waller. I have nothing else so Waller is started every week
Yes drop Waller. He is a wasted roster spot even if he is a top 3 TE with a positional scarcity of a wasteland. Trading does you no good.
