Redskins: 2012 Off-Season-Free Agency/Trades

[CrazyCanuck]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Ray got 3 years $22M

Sounds about right for Fletch.

edit: Well, actually Ray's deal was a little complicated, here are the details

Sources: Lewis deal actually seven years - Around the NFL - NFL*Blog - Yahoo! Sports

Sounds more complicated than it is really. He makes $10M in the 1st year, $5.5M in the 2nd, and $6.5M in the 3rd. Whether they pay him in salary or option bonus or roster bonus or signing bonus, etc. etc., it's just a matter of accounting and how much they wanna push to the future. Very little is guaranteed after the $10M in year 1.

I've been expecting something very similar for Fletch. The 7 years is ridiculous and only there for show. The max deal I see for Fletch is 5 years with an obvious out/restructure in year 3.

Something like:

2012 - $10M
2013 - $6M
2014 - $8M
2015 - $8M
2016 - $10M

So 5 years $42M for the press, but in reality 2 years $16M. In 2014 everyone re-evaluates. I expect the bulk of the money to be salary and roster bonus, meaning very little money pushed to the future, and very few deadcap repercussions when we part ways.

IMO this would be fine and fair. Ya maybe we could hardball to save a mill or two somewhere but in the big picture it's negligible. If Fletch doesn't deserve a little "respect money" than who does? The poor guy's become this generation's Ken Harvey.