We don't really have one of these yet, so figured we could use this as a place to discuss potential free agent acquisitions and what we would like to look for them to bring in.
If any of you guys are interested, heres a good place to do some research.
Odd structure on Ronald Darby's Eagles deal. Guaranteed $4.5M (3.5M sign bonus, 1M '19 salary), plus can earn up to $2M in per-game roster bonuses and another $2M incentives. He's also "signed" for 4 more years after this at $15M/yr, but those 4 years automatically void next Feb.
Odd structure on Ronald Darby's Eagles deal. Guaranteed $4.5M (3.5M sign bonus, 1M '19 salary), plus can earn up to $2M in per-game roster bonuses and another $2M incentives. He's also "signed" for 4 more years after this at $15M/yr, but those 4 years automatically void next Feb.
Odd structure on Ronald Darby's Eagles deal. Guaranteed $4.5M (3.5M sign bonus, 1M '19 salary), plus can earn up to $2M in per-game roster bonuses and another $2M incentives. He's also "signed" for 4 more years after this at $15M/yr, but those 4 years automatically void next Feb.
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
That is truly bizarre.
Chiefs did something similar in Tamba's restructure; something like $4 million guaranteed in an automatically void deal. It would've allowed them to restructure that deal in a way that could've taken that cap hit and pushed it forward. Instead they dicked around, the deal voided and the bonus they were looking to push hit the cap. Then they gave him a new contract AND took the dead money hit.
It was extremely stupid and almost certainly facilitated by bad news in Houston's rehab. That's how you always knew that the Chiefs fully intended to let Hali walk instead of giving him that last contract - had they meant to keep him around, they'd have never let that voidable period hit. They panicked after getting bad news on Houston and took a double whammy because of it.
It was strictly a cap mechanism though I'm not sure how that would work here. [Reply]
Chris Tomasson
@christomasson
I'm told that since losing guard-center Nick Easton, #Vikings have ramped up wanting to re-sign center-guard Brett Jones and I would expect a contract offer soon. But Jones, who made $2.914 million in 2018, has other suitors. Also looking at him are Seahawks, Jets, Eagles, Chiefs [Reply]
Odd structure on Ronald Darby's Eagles deal. Guaranteed $4.5M (3.5M sign bonus, 1M '19 salary), plus can earn up to $2M in per-game roster bonuses and another $2M incentives. He's also "signed" for 4 more years after this at $15M/yr, but those 4 years automatically void next Feb.
Originally Posted by ForeverChiefs58:
Chris Tomasson
@christomasson
I'm told that since losing guard-center Nick Easton, #Vikings have ramped up wanting to re-sign center-guard Brett Jones and I would expect a contract offer soon. But Jones, who made $2.914 million in 2018, has other suitors. Also looking at him are Seahawks, Jets, Eagles, Chiefs
Originally Posted by O.city:
Apparently I'm an idiot for thinking that because the hill and jones extensions do very little to the cap in 2019 since its an extension not a new contract?
Or so that's what I think I was told.
Maybe they wanted to front load Jones and hill because they are going to still be here when mahomes gets paid. Well who knows on hill now [Reply]