Cheers, I thought we couldn't spread the bonus.
IMHO this is completely untrue. The primary goal of the modern athlete is to maximize earnings. The money is so high a player would be foolish to prioritize anything else. The problems start after they achieve their primary goal. How much do you really care about the secondary goal of team success? As it turns out many do not care much at all. The examples are endless. There are just as many examples of players who care about winning and legacy. The key is to identify who is going to still care about football after they get paid. The likelihood that a player will still care about football after getting paid is indirectly proportional to the amount they get paid. At this point I believe that it is indisputable.
The void Year money will stay in place 2025, 2026 etc as long as he gets an extension. It only gets added in 2024 if he’s cut or traded
The argument is that QBs are overpaid relative to the cap and other players on the team. Football truly is a team sport and good arguments could be made that nobody should be paid more than anyone else. None of them can do their jobs without a lot of help from their teammates.
In before this goes down hill like intended.
So what, who cares. It is one of those topics that will vary as we all know.
All are way overpaid, and rather if one feels it hurts the team or not in the end they are all overpaid.
Cheers again. So the problem is still going to be that the 'cheaper' early years are going to be eaten up by paying the Prorated Bonus (2024) and Void Bonus (especially in 2025).
Hurts still has tremendous up side potential, he has shown improvement year after year. He is also only 24. In addition, regardless of who he plays for, he is hard not to like. Dak, ummmm., not so much. He doesn't show improvement and he is not getting any younger. The only thing Dak has in common with Hurts is his competitiveness. And when it comes to placing importance on winning and not personal financial wealth, Hurts wins in that category as well.
Yeah exactly. So you went bargain cheap first few years on first deal, spreading the “saved” money over a 5 year proration period. Then you’ll do the same thing with the next deal, but the bargain cheap first few years will be sitting on top of that prorated money from the previous contract. It can’t be like 2021-2023 anymore, but you’ll still try and keep it lower than the contract average annual value.
He's 11.5% this year.
Assuming a 15% increase for next year he will be at 23.3%. Guess we better win now.
If he doesn't completely crap the bed, I'm guessing he gets an extension after this season. His cap hit will depend on how they structure it.
true but smith had won the rushing title 2 years in a row, and helped his team get to and win a SB.
Apparently the Cowboys think, or at least thought, he's that good, which is what matters in a contract negotiation. No player is going to say he thinks he's only good enough to get 60% of what the market will bear, so why would we expect Dak to?
like I said, Smith was just an example. there are 100s of others. and yes, 13.6M back in 1990s. are you comparing money then to money now? seriously? how much did aikman make? that was dumb.
this is complete untrue. the primary goal of most modern athlete's is to win championships. Mahomes got a 450M contract. did he not want to win a championship? Rodgers got the biggest contract at the time he signed and was highest paid until hurts, does rodgers not want to win a championship? Michael Jordan got paid. he was relentless about winning rings. and I can list literally 100s of athletes......
Dak's cap hit the past two years was 17M and 19M. less than 10% of the cap...you jumped two years into the future to make a case for past and present..... at the time Eli signed people claimed Giants are doomed, yet they won two championships. cap goes up. you are struggling with cap management concepts.
With QBs, especially on shorter deals, I always figure its 2 and 3 that are player friendly and the 4th where they take a discount because they want to win before the end.
......jumped two years into the future??? Well you cant just ignore the future CAP, especially when your argument is "well he was cheap for the last two years".
Yep guess it all depends on the length. Normally the end of the 2nd contract takes the player to their early 30s so market may not necessairly be what they want anyway.
