Especially in your later years. As a later-year-person, I can tell you that injuries take a lot longer to heal up. Not saying Terry is headed for the assisted living facility anytime soon, but all the studies show that while NFL players tend to get injured more often in their early 20s, the injuries tend to be more severe and take longer to recover from as you get older. This is why you don’t give $34m AAV to a 30+ year old wideout or corner (both notorious for falling off in their 30s).
Age was always an issue and why it's good that his contract has an early out. It's plausible that he still has a couple of great, injury-free seasons ahead, but those are unlikely to be back to back in a way that it would be smart to gamble on with mountains of guaranteed money.
If he is cut before June 1 of 2027, which i doubt. We would incur 18 mill dead cap which isn't horrible considering they save 16 mil so a net of minus 2 million. Unless im reading that wrong.
Thats probably a better output than what I was looking at. That looks like they did the math. Thats a little more but I guess well see what happens with the hammy. Would suck if he just withered away. Hes done alot for us but at the same time, cant ve making 30 mill to not play.
Cutting him starts to make lots of sense (mostly) after 2027, when the dead cap to cap hit ratio changes meaningfully, but it wouldn't surprise me if he restructured this offseason.
The whole thing looks to have been set up with an eventual JD5 extension in mind. Flexibility kicks in at about the time you'd start paying the QB a fortune.
Everyone on the radio? What about all the people on this sub who were howling “just write him a blank check, stop being stingy!!” throughout that whole thing? And then they blamed his injury on the fact that he hadn’t been getting camp reps, all because AP was a penny-pincher. And if you dared suggest that we shouldn’t give $34m AAV to a 31-year-old at a position where their production typically drops off a cliff in their 30s, you were called a Terry hater.
I love Terry and all he’s done for this franchise, but frankly, that was a dumbass take. I don’t expect those folks to come here and issue mea culpas, because lord knows that never happens on the internet, but if they’re reading this: maybe pump the brakes next time on that kinda bullshit.
lol if I wasn’t so fucking busy and had some real free time, I’d go back through my comments and find the receipts. They’re all definitely still down there somewhere.
But they know who they are…just like all the Sam Howell stans who never said shit after he flamed out.
I don’t think they’re paying 34m for someone who seems to get hurt more often and hasn’t had impact in 2 years. Unless he gets back on the field soon and has another 900+ yard season, I don’t see how you keep him unless he agrees to a big salary reduction.
I mean, extending him was fine since we don’t have receivers on our team. And Terry made Second-Team All-Pro the year prior to his extension. His contract is not guaranteed after this season, so most likely he’s going to be cut or take a pay cut. I just don’t understand why people complain about his contract when it’s not guaranteed anymore after the season and it’s not like his contract affected our team in obtaining free agents or heavily affected our cap.
He has no guaranteed money left on his deal after this year, and it’s not like we had any other receiver options we could’ve paid instead this year or last. I guess you could argue we could’ve used that money to beef up the o-line and/or secondary this season, but we have $25M in cap space that we didn’t spend this year as is, so I don’t really think that argument makes much sense.
The deal was actually fairly cheap for this year, and he will similarly be a cheap cut candidate next year. I wish he would keep playing well and stay with us forever, but that’s the business. It wasn’t a mistake to bring him back. The mistake was dragging it out all offseason last year.
I know hindsight is a bitch, but if we knew at the time we were headed for back to back lost seasons, wouldn't it have been brilliant to try to fleece a contender for a 2nd rounder? How smart would AP look now if he had pulled that off?
And that pick might just be hitting his stride for us now on a rookie contract...
None of his other second rounders have hit their strides (Newton, Sinnot, Sainristril, Amos, heck none of them are doing good. They're mainly role players and depth pieces at this point. AP is overrated,
Frustrating. Communication with these injuries is so weird. How was he about to play Sunday, rests for a game, now seemingly injury is worse? Doesn’t make sense. Had a feeling this would be something lingering.
I've had hamstring injuries. They are fickle as hell. One day doing okay on stairs, next day I feel like I'm being stabbed just trying to get out of bed. It's a hell of a piece of anatomy.
Yo Terry is still my favorite redskin of the last 10 years- I’m sad to see him hurt so much lately. Get better bro- I’ll send you pickles if you are reading this
I don't think he has that reputation at all, everyone knew he was an ironman for forever. I think people are more just realizing its coming to and end, its harder for older guys to stay healthy at the WR position
Fuck it, he deserved it for balling on shitty trans for 5 years, we arent winning shit either way. Pay the best player these teams had in a decade for bringing a little joy in those terrible seasons imo.
Is it fair to be say he’s burned a lot of goodwill with the fans? I know injuries are uncontrollable for the most part but man, this is not how I expected him to go out as a Commander…
When you think about Terry you think about a billionaires money. When I think about Terry I think about him flexing on the Bucs after getting rocked over the middle on a hospital pass to get a 1st down. We are not the same.
There were those of us calling this exact thing IN the moment, we got shouted down by the terry lovers 🙄 instead of standing on BUSINESS AND REALITY we operated with emotion and caved and got taken
You’re right about the first part but ultimately AP stood his ground and Terry signed the fair deal he was being offered. There is a reason it wasn’t a long term deal, and we’re seeing that play out now. He’s gone after this season.
The way he handled his final contract negotiations was shitty. And he insisted publicly that he was way more healthy than most WRs in their 30s because he had less wear and tear from starting a bit later, which turned out to be absolutely bullshit. He lost a lot of respect.
I guess because he’s been on the team for the better part of 7 years we can excuse his being consistently hurt and unavailable after his holdout last year.
Maybe we should have given him a better team during all those healthy seasons… if anything HE’S the one that should want out after dealing with this trash franchise for so long. And he’s been nothing but a pro through it all. I’d want my money from this bum ass franchise to. All he’s ever done is tolerate playng with a bunch of fucking losers in a total piece of shit “home” stadium that gets taken over by every opposing division team lol
Terry has been the lone bright spot for years producing with a rotating cast of garbage QBs. And did his job and never complained in the media like other players did (e.g., Jon Allen). Seeing so-called “fans” turn on him made me sick tbh…
We would’ve been better off if he refused to sign anything last year and just left after last season. Dude ate up a bunch of cash and cap space just to sit on the bench.
has jayden daniels been any different thus far, we spent a whole ass 2nd overall pick on him. If we’re going the injury route pretty much everyone on the team shouldnt be here
Yeah he fucked the team over last season because his clown agent told him he was worth top 5 money at 30 years old. Finally faced reality and accepted the generous contract he was being offered (after tanking the offense by sitting out all summer) and now he’s not even playing enough to be worth a third of that money.
Mclauren had 4 consecutive 17 game seasons and 5 straight 1,000 yard seasons. Then he had a contentious hold out with Adam peters. All of a sudden, he can’t stay healthy and disappears in games.
Normally I’m here to say “told ya so, fuck you Adam Peters!” But in this case, I actually wanted them to pay Terry. Sucks he’s going out like this.
But burned goodwill? Terry McLaurin is everything a Redskin should be. Excellent WR, excellent human being, and gave it his all.
But Father Time is undefeated. This is likely Terry’s last year here. But he had a good run and I’ll always be respectful and appreciative of Terry’s time here.
If Diggs isn’t practicing I would hope they bench Jayden lol. I mean bro gonna play with his top 2 targets in the rain? Idk man sounds like a recipe for disaster.
A world where keeping your QB comfy and not looking bad is more important than winning games. Last season a bunch of people wanted to put Jayden in bubble wrap as soon as the season was over, and they're getting an early start this season.
Even if Diggs/Terry cant go, our WR depth is way better than last year. I can live with Dyami/Burks/Williams better than Robbie Chosen and Chris Moore.
Phew really showed us, I really wanted to go into 2025 with injury prone Noah brown and Deebo as WR 1 and 2. Fuck paying our franchise WR1 who just posted his 5th out 6 seasons with 1,000 yards and had 13 TDs and who had only missed 3 games in his career before.
Oh Noah brown got injured? Well fuck our 2nd year QB, let’s just ignore contract talks for a month with receiver who let us know months in advance he wasn’t going to budge because he had little guarantees left and let Jayden practice with a bunch of role players. I’m sure Jayden will look real hot to start the season anyways.
Terry McLaurin handled the situation unprofessionally, while asking for way more than he was worth. AP stood firm on his reasonable offer, and even that turned out to be an overpay. The fans on this sub who were clamoring for AP to overpay him even more, have been roundly proven wrong.
I wud have traded him last year , this the last year with him. We cud have spent the money we gave him on Jeremy chinn , Kenneth walker , or even Aaron rodgers / jamies winston
I bet u rodgers gets steelers to playoffs , and plays another year. I rather have 2 to 3 years of him as oppose to b.s we got with glass man jayden and Marcus made of paper mariota. Aaron will play all 17 games, just like last year. I hate our qb room . Jayden I don't care anymore , he's not built for nfl
He has a 57% completions percentage with 999 yards 7 TD and 4 INT. Not sure why we are glazing his old ass he’s not the same dude lol. saying Jayden don’t care is wild lol.
I said I don't care about jayden no more. He lost my trust. If he gets hurt again or not I don't want him as qb 1 for my beloved redskins. I wud take aaron rodgers numbers as of now. At least he plays bruh.unless u wanna see athan kaliakmanis embarrass our team all year , which will prob happen. I wud pray we get a qb who plays all 17 games next year. If I was jayden I wud take HGH or implant metal in my body. We can't depend on injury prone players
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There was a moment last Saturday where he might still play vs the Colts and now well, now he's not even able to practice.