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I believe they'll also be paying the repeater tax. If they extend PJW at the max they can offer and fill out the roster with minimums plus their 1st round pick, they could be looking at a $100M tax bill.

Yes, if they are over the tax line in 2026-27, they will be hit with repeater tax. 

But it wouldn't be THAT big of a bill, I don't think. Using your givens, it's more like 40M in total tax (which includes repeater penalty). Not a check I'd want to write, but ...

On that subject -- the fact they will almost certainly get hit with that repeater penalty in 2026-27 is another consequence of the Grimes trade. (That deal is the gift that keeps on giving!) If they hadn't done that, they would have stayed under the tax line last season, and the soonest they could incur repeater tax would have been 2028-29. 

Their extra tax and salary for Martin - for an injured player who has only been wasted salary clogging the payroll - has a good shot by itself of costing Dumont an unnecessary $75-80M or so by then. THAT is the sort of needless blunder an owner can understand and be pissed about (if he's smart enough to figure it out), enough to fire someone.