Didn't he have 7 or 8 million guaranteed? Not bad for 1 week of work.
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When do we sign him? We are the bad boys of the league with clark and hill on the team.
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I’d say he never plays again.
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I wonder if they are voiding his signing bonus based on the texts, etc...

Because technically the full $9 million should accelerate against their cap right now. Unless they had a conduct clause that will allow them to recapture it. I'm betting they'll tell him that he can keep the $5 million they paid him if he doesn't challenge them to get the $4 million deferred they owe him in January. Some kind of negotiated settlement is likely because they'd have to sue him and win to get the $5 million back and in the meantime it would just be tied up into their cap.
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lol

I hate everything about the Patriots and their fans ✌️��

— AB (@ab89) September 20, 2019

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Not that they couldn't use him -- cuz who couldn't -- but Ramsey to Pats makes no sense. Not a position of need at all and the asking price is very high. Contrary to the pundits, Patriots rarely make "win now at all costs" type moves. Revis was one, arguably, but even that wasn't an absurd amount of money.
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I assume they have already paid the sign-on bonus of $9mil. I love the pats getting f....d.
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I think they had contract language that allowed them to take back the guarantees. Not 100% sure the exact structure, though.
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I doubt they paid full freight on that. There was a bonus due Monday for $5MM I understand, which I assume was part of it.
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Now we don't need to trade for Ramsey, right?
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They're the one team in the league that literally cannot offer more than us.
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From the Patriots cap guru (he's a f'ing genius tbh):


Cap Space=$1,253,404
@patscap
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5m
What I do know about Antonio Brown.

Pats are now off the hook for 14 46-man active roster bonuses. He will definitely get paid for 2 weeks. His 2019 salary is fully guaranteed but it can be voided because of behavior. Pats have not paid Brown any of his signing bonus.



Note that AB could file a grievance against the Patriots. I don't know how that final sentence can be true, but if he says it, you can take it to the bank as the gospel truth.
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Meh. We'll see. Will Gordon survive the whole season w/o a suspension? Probably not.

Will Gronk come back? If so, probably not in time.

Edelman gets hurt and they're fooked.
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You know that’s not Brown, right?
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It would still be nice to do
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