FINALLY! - A National Columnist Gets it Right

[MonkFan4Life]

Originally Posted by skinsguy

My question is, do these players willingly know this is going to happen to them down the road, and figure that getting any money at all is better than getting no money (hard to believe), or do they have the mindset to believe that this is an incentive for them to play "up to the contract" in hopes it won't get renegiotated down the road? I think it's great cap strategy, but if I was a player, I'm not sure I'd go for this. I'd like to know exactly what is being said to the players and their agents that make them go for this type of deal. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining one bit, but I just find it interesting that players and their agents don't pick up on this stuff.

I know your post has been quoted a lot of times but they do in fact know about the back end money. That's the real reason Smoot left. The final numbers had Minnesota edging Washington by $500,000 making the Skins look bad to the media. I heard my man Czaban ripping the Skins over $500,000 when it was that Minnesota gave him most of his money early and Washington wasn't. The Skins know what they are doing and for the folks who come aboard there is a lot of money to be made if they stay. They are so good even Peter King had to bow down show respect. Like Joe Gibbs said, Everyone can do what we are doing, they just choose not to !


F'n HAIL !!!!

[BigSKINBauer]

Originally Posted by MonkFan4Life

I know your post has been quoted a lot of times but they do in fact know about the back end money. That's the real reason Smoot left. The final numbers had Minnesota edging Washington by $500,000 making the Skins look bad to the media. I heard my man Czaban ripping the Skins over $500,000 when it was that Minnesota gave him most of his money early and Washington wasn't. The Skins know what they are doing and for the folks who come aboard there is a lot of money to be made if they stay. They are so good even Peter King had to bow down show respect. Like Joe Gibbs said, Everyone can do what we are doing, they just choose not to !


F'n HAIL !!!!

That is exactly who i was thinking of. Smoot left because all the money was "back ended". I was always pissed about that but really is it possible that current players on the team have seen this stuff happen will be much more less likely to agree to these deals when it comes time to become free agents? We do an amazing job reworking contracts and just tacking on years and pushing back signing bonuses and money but if we do let a player become a free agent it must be hard if they really have seen what has happened.

We all know what we do. We all said this about brunell. We knew he wouldn't see a lot of his money. He reworked his contract but if he didn't i think he would have been cut this next year.

The rest of the league should be taking notes. The way we divide signing bonuses and push back money may not make us friends but it got us a hole lot of damn good players

[724Skinsfan]

Think of it this way. If a player wants to get paid before he proves himself would you consider that guy a "core" player? If you have a guy that is willing to work hard and then has a chance to be well rewarded then you have a guy worth having on your team. I foolishly believe that there are some players out there that are willing to prove their value.