A message of Positivity, from Mr. Jason Whitlock

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Originally Posted by KC Fish

Umm.... WTF are you talking about regarding his contract? "Set up where we could go in another direction after next season."? What does that even mean? I get the feeling you are completely talking out your ass here. Cassel's contract pays the most over the first 3 years.

What are you talking about? Please tell me how his contract was set up to favor the second year? I'm quite curious to hear this. Please explain the inner workings of Cassel's contract for me...

And if the Chiefs would have franchised him, they would have had to pay him even more than they did this year with the contract he signed.

Originally Posted by BigRock

How so?

If LaConfora is right and Cassel's making $15M this year, we can take the $5M base salary AP says he's making and add $10M in bonus money to it.

AP says he's making $11.25M in bonuses his first two years, so that leaves $1.25M leftover in bonuses for 2010. And they say he's making $11.75M in base next year. That's $13M in total.

$15M in year one and $13M in year two is $28M.

The only thing I can see that doesn't add up is that LaCanfora says Cassel would make $40.5M in the first three years, which would be $12.5M in year three. AP's figures say he's making a base salary of $4.75M, which would mean a bonus of $7.75M. But they only list his year-three bonus as $7.5M, which ends up being 250K short. That could just be a typo or something, though.



That's fine, but whether or not they cut him, we should at least acknowledge that his contract does indeed appear to be structured where he CAN be cut after two years. In fact, it's slightly cheaper having him under this deal than it would have been to keep him on a yearly basis for two years.

As I've said since the deal was announced, unless someone actually thinks they would have traded a 2nd round pick and gotten rid of Cassel after one season, I don't know how anyone can complain about the contract they signed him to.

here you go, i had this exact same argument with OTWP and bigrock said it better than i could