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Message: [QUOTE="intlzncster, post: 2175935, member: 56"] I don't think it's that out of the question. The idea would be to not franchise JG if you could, by guaranteeing him like only 2 years more of Brady, and trying to work a cap and player friendly long term contract. Basically tell Tom, "listen we'll give you a couple more years, but you gotta restructure at a super cut rate because we need to prepare for the future. If you don't, we have to move on". I'm not sure of the rules on this, but if you could cut Brady after the season, you'd save 8m on the cap [in 2018 and 15m in 2019], and then resign at a vet min. BB is not going to just sacrifice everything because it's Tom. Everyone's got a shelf life. And if Tom wants to play he'd have to agree. Tom isn't playing for money at all right now. He and his wife have more money than god. He's also a team first guy. I'm not saying that would happen, just kicking around scenarios. And look I wouldn't put it past Bill to take a 20m franchise tag on a backup. Guy zigs when everyone else zags. You might have to take a year of tough cap hits, but that's more than worth it for a long term franchise QB. [/QUOTE]