Longs contract is top 6-10 each year, right about where he plays or better when healthy, add to that that he is a drafted Bear with good locker room presence. He is safe at least until after 2020. Sims is a guy you won't remember was a Bear 5 yrs from now. Huge difference.
Long hasn't played like a top 10 guard since 2015. They extended his contract and he's been injured/bad ever since.
Cutting Long and Sims this off-season will lead to 13m cap free'd in 2019. That's a huge amount, hardly nickles and dimes.
Yes that's correct, I math'd wrong
5.5+6=13 Whats your point?
Or he restructures with a pay cut and Novak hangs himself with a Long jersey.
5.5m will get you the entirety of a rookie contract, and that's spread over 4 years.
Who is the bad overpaid player you speak of? You have a view of Long based on something other than his game play when healthy, maybe he blocked you on Twitter or made fun of your gaming acumen on Twitch, but it is incorrect. He is a above average to very good G, even after all his injuries right now. Healthy Kyle Long in no way gets cut this next offseason, and most likely not next. Sorry to spring that on you.
Dude just had about 96 surgeries. He's as "healthy" as he'll ever be, and newsflash, he's been well below average this season.
