So there's an article on NFL network saying that Orlando Brown is expected to sign for 6 years $145 mil.
That comes to $24.16 mil/yr and makes him the highest paid offensive lineman in football. It also would give him the 19th highest salary per year in the NFL
How would you feel if that is the contract he ended up signing?
I'm fine with it. He is a top 5 LT and he's only 26 next season. A young great LT is a guy you can't let leave. [Reply]
Lots of emotion and assumptions in this thread. This is all typical contract negotiation stuff and nothing to get worked up about. The sides agree on the money, but disagree on the structure. Brown and his agent are willing to walk away and bet on Brown having a great year and getting more guaranteed money next year.
Brown has every incentive to show up in shape and ready to have his best year yet. That’s much more likely to happen than him showing up out of shape and being a malcontent all year. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
The fine print says it was loaded with funny money that will never be paid out. Only this year and next year was guaranteed.
2 years guaranteed? No wonder he turned it down.
You're reading it wrong. The first two years were fully guaranteed. Doesn't mean there's none after that. The article is missing a lot of details about the overall structure. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
The fine print says it was loaded with funny money that will never be paid out. Only this year and next year was guaranteed.
2 years guaranteed? No wonder he turned it down.
Fuck your nuance. The report said it was going to make him the highest paid LT in the game and he turned it down.
Who cares about the actual reality or money involved when the CP mob wants blood?!
Some of you are such whiny bitches about this stuff. I love this narrative that he's more likely to show up to camp fat and out-of-shape on essentially a 1-year prove it deal than he would if he just signed the multi-year deal with plenty of guaranteed money that the Chiefs offered him. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BryanBusby:
You're reading it wrong. The first two years were fully guaranteed. Doesn't mean there's none after that. The article is missing a lot of details about the overall structure.
Brown thinks he can get more money on the open market next year. If he plays like Trent Williams this year, he will. If he plays like last year, he won't.
He's betting on himself and assuming a large amount of risk. I respect it in a sense, while also thinking it's foolish to gamble a big pile money trying to increase the size pile by just a little. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Razaele:
Jake Long was deserving of the "hype" based on his collegiate career and pedigree, and he was living up to it with Miami for 3-4 seasons, starting every game and going to Pro Bowls, until injury problems caught up with him. To act like Long was some sort of a draft bust or a fraud is just silly.
Originally Posted by TwistedChief:
**** your nuance. The report said it was going to make him the highest paid LT in the game and he turned it down.
Who cares about the actual reality or money involved when the CP mob wants blood?!
Some of you are such whiny bitches about this stuff. I love this narrative that he's more likely to show up to camp fat and out-of-shape on essentially a 1-year prove it deal than he would if he just signed the multi-year deal with plenty of guaranteed money that the Chiefs offered him.
It's out of hand football talk is pretty much dead on here [Reply]
Originally Posted by BryanBusby:
You're reading it wrong. The first two years were fully guaranteed. Doesn't mean there's none after that. The article is missing a lot of details about the overall structure.
It’ll come out. But, 2 years guaranteed is the same as a tag. Maybe Veach sees him as a temp solution to a better LT.
We should know the “whys” or at least their public positions by the end of the weekend. [Reply]
It's possible this might be best for the Chiefs anyway. We get another year to evaluate whether Brown is worth giving a long term deal to, and we only risk the franchise tag cap number. If he proves to be an ascending player and we bring him back, we know we make a safe investment. If he doesn't take a step forward we've got a whole season and an offseason to plan for the future. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
It’ll come out. But, 2 years guaranteed is the same as a tag. Maybe Veach sees him as a temp solution to a better LT.
We should know the “whys” or at least their public positions by the end of the weekend.
I don't think Veach is looking ahead at the position. I think they like OBJ bit they can't reset the market with every player they like. [Reply]
God damn, some of you fucks are so whiney and toxic its unbelievable. Acting like a scorned lover over a contract negotiation that none of you have any clue about what's actually going on with it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by LoneWolf:
Lots of emotion and assumptions in this thread. This is all typical contract negotiation stuff and nothing to get worked up about. The sides agree on the money, but disagree on the structure. Brown and his agent are willing to walk away and bet on Brown having a great year and getting more guaranteed money next year.
Brown has every incentive to show up in shape and ready to have his best year yet. That’s much more likely to happen than him showing up out of shape and being a malcontent all year.
Originally Posted by Bowser:
I'm telling you - go sign Fisher. And even if they don't, make his ass earn the spot before just handing it to him because they tagged him when he decides he's ready to play.
Yeah and if Brown beats out Fish at LT we can move him over to RT and we have one hell of an O-line. Didn't Fish play RT for us his first year in the league? [Reply]