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[ItsGoTime]

I think this is all fair.  The Detroit miscalculation is certainly an area of potential criticism.  The other thing I’d add is as early as December, I found reports that Jalen’s number was $80mm over 4 years.  If that was already the number in December, was there ever really a chance he would take $55mm once that was out there. 

I just don’t see it.  I do see an emotional response to not even being asked and an even more emotional response to the reason why being the team was looking to move me.  But, if he was not likely to take the $55mm at any point past the summer of 21, then whether or not that should have been offered is another potential area of criticism.  Even as a really good backup (which is what he was at the time) $13.7mm as an average doesn’t seem unreasonable.  But, as you say, none of us have any idea whether JB would have accepted even that offer.

We’ll never really know because it was never offered, rumor has it.