We might be broke soon

You've severely overpaid Raymond and Ras.

What has Ras shown you that he deserves an 8 year deal? He's close to GR material at this point.

They won't play young guys now I doubt they play 7 rookies next year

Overpaying Raymond for that added term would be phenomenal for the team. Unless another pandemic occurs, the cap is going to rise dramatically.

Here we go again....

Raymond hasn't shown he's worth even close to $7M a year....the term (and the cap) is completely irrelevant until he does. In fact, if we're stuck to a $7M player for 8 years playing like a $4M-5M player, that wouldn't be good.

Here we go again....

It's a bet. Realistically, past two years Faymond looks like a 4-5M guy, I agree. However, is the cap going to stay 83.5M forever?
Are 4-5M guys going to stay "4-5M guys"? No and no. It is a bet that Raymond gets better, with the plus side of a very good contract with the downside of we overpay him by 1-2M now, but will likely be right around the going rate of his caliber.