Casserly on Suh's Contract: 'If a Guy Was Playing, I Forgot What We Paid Him'
Paying a non-quarterback $114 million over six years with $60 million fully guaranteed, as the Dolphins did this summer with Ndamukong Suh, certainly raised some brows across the NFL.
But as former NFL GM Charley Casserly notes on the Joe Rose Show this morning, "if you're gonna get a defensive lineman in their prime, you're gonna pay a lot of money and overpay" to get a star like Suh.
"You don't get guys at bargains," Casserly said. "The way I look at is this -- you got the guy. And I'll say this, Joe, when I looked at our payroll -- our salary cap -- if a guy was playing, I forgot what we paid him. If he couldn't play, I remembered every nickel, every day we were paying that guy."
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