and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Inside or Matthew Coller here and even though I have done my very very best to talk about T.J. Hawkins' contract and Justin Jefferson's contract

situations. I am no contract expert, so what we do here on the show is we find

one and we know one that is PFFs Brad Spielberg

what is going on Brad how are you?

I'm doing great and hopefully sound better to the people thank you to yourself

for fixing my mic situation so I'm feeling fantastic.

Yeah well you know it's not as easy as you think all this beautiful setup I mean we make we

make hard look easy you know that's that's what we do here in podcasting. Now I actually

you just had to turn down the game is it was really that simple. But it could

speak of complicated contracts am I right? So the interesting thing about T.J. Hockinson's contract

other than his hold-in which got everyone laughing about different ailments that

he was coming up with throughout.

Just the flesh wound though, he's okay

and he'll be good to go when the season starts.

But the contract was sort of touted

as he wants to reset the tight end market he wants to be the highest paid tight end and it appears that that is the case per average annual value

but average annual value doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot to how the front office can operate with other players and other contracts.

So explain how we should actually view

T.J. Hawkins' contracts.

Yeah, you know, in some ways you could argue he did reset the market in others

like you're talking about. The way it is structured, the way the cash is paid out,

you could set the team won in certain aspects.

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