Andrew Brandt
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Maybe later.
I mean, I'm looking at, I didn't even know about this, guys.
I didn't know he had a surgery in January.
So to me, this is a trade that's made after a couple more months of rehab.
Yeah, you never know.
I mean, I think there's also a lot of questions I get all past couple days about,
are the raid Raiders now taking on this $30 million that they have back and get out of any of these deals they've signed?
I mean, listen, people figure out a way around the cap.
It, it happens.
So I think people get too caught up in like, Oh my God, what are we going to do now?
They understand it.
If you make a trade in the NFL, it's subject to physical.
If you're trading a guy who's had surgery a month ago,
It's got to be something the Raiders thought was a risk.
And I'm sure in the conversations between DaCosta and the Raiders, like, tell me about the knee.
And the reason he flew out to Baltimore, you know, other than to celebrate, this was something that had to be looked at.
The pure cap restructure is a paper transaction.
If a restructure includes a pay cut, then you're having a different discussion, and I've done a lot of both.