02-04-2026, 03:15 PM
(02-04-2026, 03:08 PM)RoyTarpleysGhost Wrote: Never been this hyped about financial flexibility.
The more I think about it, the more I'm smiling.
Even in our best case, hopeful ATL deals, the flexibility was to come from expirings and being a non-tax team NEXT season. It's finally locking in for me that they got under the tax line NOW. They won't pay tax THIS season, which makes ideas like using that TPE to take a bad contract in exchange for receiving actual good draft capital (just an example) pretty viable. Basically, any way it's possible to improve their circumstances gets the green light, starting this summer.
Truly, this is worth something. I think this deal might be better than the ATL deal we talked about for the past two months. I'm not sure AJ Johnson will be anything, and I certainly don't like him as much as Risacher, but...he's super athletic, can handle and is a GUARD! I like him just as much if not more than Newell, for example. And, they got 5 picks out of this. Crap picks, maybe, but there are 5 of them.
I'm liking this deal more and more.
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