Is Sensabaugh's base salary guaranteed for 2013?

[supercowboy8]

Originally Posted by xwalker

12/9/2011: Gerald Sensabaugh signs a 5-extension worth 22.5M with a 4M signing bonus and 8M in total guarantees.

Spotrac is not always accurate. You can find the original report around the internet. Here is on article that reported the extension:
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/12...five-year.html


Here is the breakdown of the extension. It does not include the salary that he was already making in 2011 which was 2.5M. Everything in bold is guaranteed.

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Yea that was added to his 2011 which made it a total 6 year 25 million which you still count the year the extensions was started. Your looking at it wrong as a new deal, but since it was an extension you have to count 2011 since it was a 6 year 25 million contract
They just added 5 year 22.5 to the 2011 contract, which makes it called an extension so you count 2011.

[xwalker]

Originally Posted by supercowboy8

Yea that was added to his 2011 which made it a total 6 year 25 million which you still count the year the extensions was started. Your looking at it wrong as a new deal, but since it was an extension you have to count 2011 since it was a 6 year 25 million contract
They just added 5 year 22.5 to the 2011 contract, which makes it called an extension so you count 2011.

I have no idea what you're talking about. Why are we "counting" years?

It was a 5 year extension to an existing 1 year contract.

The extension was 5 years, 8M guaranteed with 4M as a signing bonus.

The original contract was 1 year, 2.5M. The 2.5M was guaranteed when the 2011 season started.

The total is a 6 year contract with 2.5M in year one and 22.5M in the 5 year extension.

The numbers on spotrac are wrong. They don't even add up. They lost $750,000 somewhere.

[Common Sense]

In that case, I find it highly ironic that Jerry Jones considers Rob Ryan's defensive scheming "fundamentally unsound" yet sees nothing wrong with structuring contracts so that it costs $3M to keep a player or cut him. Seems like Jerry's forgetting about a fullback out in the flat somewhere.

[AbeBeta]

Originally Posted by Common Sense

In that case, I find it highly ironic that Jerry Jones considers Rob Ryan's defensive scheming "fundamentally unsound" yet sees nothing wrong with structuring contracts so that it costs $3M to keep a player or cut him. Seems like Jerry's forgetting about a fullback out in the flat somewhere.

That's the basic structure of most contracts. Nearly everything written is a three year deal in practice with it costing you $$ to release a guy before the third year, and you breaking even or coming out ahead after that.

So what you are saying is that every long term contract in the NFL is fundamentally unsound.