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Originally Posted by suzzer99
So you'd rather a multi-year contract for a mediocre possession receiver?  |
You're aware that term is nothing more than an accounting measure on NFL contracts, right?
Yes, that's absolutely what I'd have preferred.
Give him a 3 year deal for, I dunno, $30 million w/ $9 million of it as a signing bonus. presumptively he's going to what that $10 million in cash this year so you give him a base salary this year of $1 million to go with the signing bonus of $9 million. You pro-rate the bonus and now this year's cap hit becomes $4 million.
Additionally you now have 2 more years to cover $20 million in salary. Year 2 has a base salary of $8 million, year 3 a base of $12 million.
So if this year he's not any good, you go ahead and cut him and accelerate the remaining $6 million onto the cap and boom - same spot you would've been on the 1 year deal. Meanwhile if he actually proves to be valuable here, you now have 'team options' at $8 million (with an $11 million cap hit) next season and then $12 million (with a $15 million cap hit or $3 million in dead money and a $12 million savings) in year 3.
Yes. Absolutely I'd prefer that structure to this one. The year 1 cap hit is better, the year 2 cap situation is identical and in the process you've created 2 potentially 'value added' seasons to the back end of the deal.
Give me one single reason why a 1 year deal is preferable to that structure.