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I'll bet he gets a chance too if that's all we do. I'm hoping it's not.

FGump reminded me about something earlier that has me leaning towards "that's all we can expect."

Once they use that tpMLE, they're hard capped at the 2nd apron, which isn't a problem, as I believe (assuming they spend the entire exception on their target) it leaves them with enough for ONE, full-season minimum, and their roster will be full, basically. So, there's some wiggle room (though not much) to work out of some of the injury jams that popped up last year should they find themselves in that position again. 

But, if they were to make a trade that aggregates multiple players outgoing for one incoming, they'd then have to assign cap holds to roster spots and that wiggle room evaporates instantly, provided they could even make the roster cap legal to begin with. I haven't done the math, I only have a loose, general understanding of the situation, so someone correct me if I'm wrong here. 

I think all that means that if the plan is to use that tpMLE, any trade would have to one-for-one, two-for-two, etc, and pretty much dollar for dollar...OR, they'd have to take back less money than they send out (hence Gump's suggestion of sending out one of those bottom three guys for "air"), which fewer and fewer teams are able to accommodate, before even getting into whether or not any team would want to do that. At that point, you're almost certainly attaching future draft capital to get it done, and none of us seem interested in doing that. 

So, that takes us back to where we started: Is there a one-for-one that involves Daniel Gafford or PJW that Harrison would do? Or, a two-for-two that involves BOTH? I'm growing more and more skeptical that he's looking at those options, though I certainly would.

I think we're going to see DLo get a job, and then Hardy/Williams duke it out for time behind him. DLo, Christie and Thompson will all have established roles, but I'd bet some of Thompson's will be at the 3, so I really feel like they'll need one of Williams or Hardy (possibly BOTH) to play well in order for this season to work.