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Originally Posted by FRPLG
Actually no...like I said above any bonus already paid to a player counts only against the team that paid it. Looking at Arringtons bonus numbers...it looks like he was supposed to get a 4.5 RB next seaon...not sure if the 6.5 counts that or what. Lets simply eliminate that and look at the plain ole signing bonus which isprorated out oevr the rest on the contract(not four years but the entire length of the contract up to 7 years I believe). It adds up to somewhere in the nighborhood of 10 mil. This ahs laready been paid to lavar so it counts against us only. It would excelarte foward to whatever year we traded him in. IE:he aint going nowhere. Not even for Randy Moss and Daunte Culpepper.
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I'm with you here, believe it or not. I didn't mean to lure anyone to thinking that the signing bonus is 'traded'. I only said the bonus is guaranteed and the contract term (money not guaranteed) is traded. The players' union and the NFL agreed that signing bonuses can not be spread over four years, simply because players don't want to wait forever. The term of the contract is what makes the the salary seem so high. Many of these new age contracts have incentives and escalators. It gets really tricky after renegotiang because essentially the team gives a player 'contract term' money up front (as if a bonus). Here's an example. And guys i don't claim to be a genius. It's just that i'm an aries.
(Example: Player A signs 73 million dollar contract with a 18 million dollar signing bonus over 5 years whereas only 18 mil is guaranteed and paid within 4 years. $73 contract-$18 bonus=$55 non guaranteed. $55/5 years=$11 a year contract terms. $18 bonus/4 years spread= $4.5 bonus per four first years. So with this very simple example, Player A will be paid 15.5 per year for the first four years and 11.5 his final year).
