This deal might also prevent us from front loading KM's contract, which is due for extension next year. Not sure if this was planned by the front office, but I always thought front loading his contract, the way Chicago did with BW and Kirk Heinrich might give us more cap space 2 or 3 years down the line when lot of our big contracts come off the books. That won't be happening now.
We have Kevin's bird rights, so none of this stuff has any impact on his contract.