Chiefs and Jones agree to new deal

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

What if there’s a more reasonable, Chiefs-sized bonus, like $25 or 30M?

That’s where I think we see this land. That 95m over the first three years is going to include 10-12 million in cap charges against the last two years…

Gotta make for some pretty stout cap hits in years 1-2-3 in that case.

I mean a $30 million signing bonus would require salaries of $17.5, $22.5 and $25 million over the first 3 years.

So $23.5, $28.5 and $31 million in those seasons.

I kinda like my approach better. More risk but more short-term flexibility.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Gotta make for some pretty stout cap hits in years 1-2-3 in that case.

I mean a $30 million signing bonus would require salaries of $17.5, $22.5 and $25 million over the first 3 years.

So $23.5, $28.5 and $31 million in those seasons.

I kinda like my approach better. More risk but more short-term flexibility.

I like the flexibility but have a hard time believing the Chiefs wrote a bonus that big. More likely it is reasonably sized now with another restructure point next year or the year after.

If you bonus our $30M at signing, and then another $12M in 2025, and then another $9M in 2026, you bonus out $51M and defer $24M in bonus proration to the last two years.

Six/one half dozen/another.