Brian Waters signed a 6 year contract extention in 2006
 

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansas...s/13760069.htm

Waters signs six-year extension
Chiefs guard makes deal without agent

By ELIZABETH MERRILL
The Kansas City Star

In this time of uncertainty for the Chiefs’ offensive line, one thing is certain — Brian Waters will be in Kansas City for a while.

Waters, a two-time Pro Bowl guard, has agreed to a six-year contract extension. Chiefs president/general manager Carl Peterson said Tuesday that the deal was quietly struck in November, with no agents and apparently little haggling.

Waters fired his agent roughly a year ago, and when he missed offseason workouts last summer, it was speculated that he was staying away because of contract issues. It turns out he saved a big hunk of money by negotiating on his own, though the Chiefs, per team policy, declined to give terms of the deal.

“I think it’s only smart to retain your own best players first, and then if you have the money and the cap dollars (remaining) to go after free agents,” Peterson said. “You don’t want those guys to ever get to the last year of their contract for fear that you might lose them to free agency.

“It gives us continuity for the future of the offensive line.”

Waters, who was cut by Dallas as a rookie in 1999, was picked up roughly six months later by Kansas City and blossomed into one of the NFL’s elite at left guard. He made his first Pro Bowl in 2004, and the Chiefs have had the league’s No. 1 offense the last two seasons.

Waters is the link between the line’s decorated past and its future. With 11-time Pro Bowl guard Will Shields pondering retirement, and Pro Bowl tackle Willie Roaf approaching his final years, Waters will be called upon to help bring along the younger linemen.

Shields is expected to make a decision sometime after the Pro Bowl.

Hell ya

Great news.

hell ya

Yeah!

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Great news.

Heaven yes.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/images/icons/icon14.gif to The Meanest getting paid.

Fantastic News!!



I wonder if Carl screwed him over on the contract. :)

Sweet news indeed. And an off topic ? here. Is that Bloc Party in your sig Zach?

Indeed it is.

Ahhh...
 

YES!!

great news.....

props to CP for getting that done under the radar...

One of my favorite Chiefs.

Now if only CP could find a way to make Shields and Roaf younger.

Outstanding!
 

Next: Roaf, T-Rich, and Shields.

Hear that, Rosenwhore?

Can I get a HELL YEAH?

Hell Yeah, now if we can get some depth for the LT position for when Mr. Roaf isn't there and a couple more youngin's on the O-line.... We should be set again for a while....


:toast: to Carl...

Yes!

This is a decent start to the offseason. Now get TRich back in here.

That is excellent news. Thats a great start for this offseason.

Now Carl...see what you can do about the Roaf-Shields situation, and some legit Depth behind Roaf.

Great start to the offseason...

fuck yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This deal was inked back in November. Carl still hasn't done jack this offseason [/hater].

This happened in November?! Damn, if only I had paid 100 bucks to get the scoop from Athan...

SMART MOVE!

So if it was done in November could we have used some of our unused 2005 Cap space to absord some of the bonus?

Sweet news...

Carl will soon be announcing his new policy of handing out extensions to any Chiefs player who fires their agent.

Waters' new contract is out on NLFPA.com. Looks like he did pretty good for himself...

2006 - $500,000
2007 - $500,100
2008 - $500,200
2009 - $500,300
2010 - $500,400
2011 - $500,500

Len Pasquarelli is reporting a signing bonus of $600.

I would say that this is a pretty cap-friendly deal the first two years, but we may need to re-structure after that.

Maybe they just updated it...

2006 545000.00
2007 670000.00
2008 2085000.00
2009 3600000.00
2010 4400000.00
2011 5400000.00

Awesome news.

Glad to hear he re-signed with the Chiefs. I was concerned by this, but the FO did a good job of addressing this so he wouldn't become a FA. Props.

Clearly, CP and Hunt don't care about winning. Dammit, Carl! :cuss:

:)

Now CP needs to lock up LJ's contract, resign T-Rich and restructure Tony G's contract.

“I think it’s only smart to retain your own best players first, and then if you have the money and the cap dollars (remaining) to go after free agents,” Peterson said. “You don’t want those guys to ever get to the last year of their contract for fear that you might lose them to free agency."

Awesome, I guess that means Siavii is next!!!

Great job CP!!

I'll guarentee they did exactly that. See, under the CBA, any contract (or contract extension) can't prorate a signing bonus more than 3 seasons past that last capped year. That means a big signing bonus would still have big cap hit b/c it would only be split over 4 years.

Now, if you soak up existing cap room by giving a 2005 roster bonus with the extension, you can take that off the 05 cap.

I expect a structure that includes a 05 roster bonus, AND a signing bonus that is relatively small, so that his 06 cap number is actually VERY reasonable.

well deserved! awesome news!

Gotta love a player that cuts out the agent.

Good deal.

I think Tim Grunhardt never used an agent either.

Hell, in the affirmative! That is positive news, indeed.

:clap: :toast:

Bye bye!

Same to you I would assume.

I about stroked out when I saw this at the top of the page.

Dumbass.

Wow. My neg rep carries a lot of weight, lol. Look at that pretty red bar you have now.

I helped.

worst first post ever


can we go back to the lockout?

Thread scared the hell out of me.

Well someone made a multi to do this shit for sheer reaction.

Soooo not cool.

He gets my first neg rep! F***in jerk off!

Kudos to Brian for wanting to be a Chief for practically his whole career. I'm glad and proud of what he's done and am happy to have him locked up (at least til he starts to suck).

Sent him down even a couple more dots myself. What a shitty thread bump.

This is actually a pretty good joke, as far as nuthooks-deserving bumps go.

LMAO :drool:

ROFL

This may be better then the bump of the thread.

Welcome to the Planet erick!

Next, Eddie Drummond will be coming in for a tryout as a punt returner....

Thanks alpha! Wow I did not start the tread and I get nuthooks! Well that sucks

people need to stop doing these bullshit bumps


gochiefs is the one who started it ... naturally

Must be the gang of six! It to bad you can not post on someone else tread and not get smased.

ROFL

That doesn't even make sense.

Nut mult?

It do to.

LOL I thought that too!

Nut is trolling now?

This is all win.

At first I was going to neg rep Erick (Nut) for the bump, then I came across this little gem and decided the bump was worth it.

SR Will be along shortly to explain who's mult this is...

Hey Erick... You're having intermittent issues with your "H" key, btw...

I was joking.

No, you weren't.

I would've bumped this thread without a mult if I had come across it first.