Originally posted by random49er:
Originally posted by tankle104:
The first three years of Lawrence deal is super low Cap hits (less than $24M a year). Jumps to $35 in 2027 and $47M in 2028. All extremely affordable, especially with how much the caps expected to go up over that time span. Then after 2028, they have an out with 0 dead cap. It's not a terrible deal. I think he's over paid but not a terrible deal
I think it goes without saying,...but with the way the money is pushed out, you do see it as a team-friendly deal (since money is pushed out until 2032), correct?
I just want to know the markers to look out for with Brock's deal.
I personally think so, AB would be a better source for that. He knows way more about this than I do. But this is my understanding:
When you have a longer contract, like mahommes does, it gives the team a ton of flexibility to move money around, convert some to signing bonus, create void years, stretch signing bonus over 5 or so years. It can also be reworked, which can help the player get proper market value and then that can create mechanisms to where the team can continue to spread the money out over further time. Things like option bonuses help with how they can account for the money over a time period too (it's become a lot more popular in recent years - Hurts did a triple bonus structure and Lawrence just did a quintuple bonus structure.)
team friendly to me is more of giving the structure in a contract that gives the organization flexibility to help with the salary cap. Brock could probably run a super hard bargain regarding guaranteed money, and I don't think we could blame him, but that makes it a little harder on the cap. Like watsons fully guaranteed contract - the Browns have like 5-6 straight years of $60M+ cap hits just for Watson. Which is hindering them because he blows. It's mainly why he's even considered for the starting role right now and they can't afford an adequate replacement.
He could also take a little less than he can demand, but I don't think that's likely. So our best bet would be to get a longer deal and see what the signing bonus and guaranteed money is.
[ Edited by tankle104 on Jun 15, 2024 at 9:29 PM ]