If Josh Takes Less To Go Elsewhere

[beastson]

 

How is the Pats involved if they only have 6 mil in cap space? Long term deal preparing to get more space in the future so he makes more as the years go on? Just trying to understand

[cbully]

if he takes less, HE defeated the purpose

 

[Steve Smith]

Stop posting

[CRA]

6 minutes ago, cbully said:

if he takes less, HE defeated the purpose

 

Also blows back on Gettlemen too...

[DamnItJake!]

But what if he signed over Whopper wit Cheese (hmm).. vs a Big Mac!! the possibilites...

[The Huddler]

[Jangler]

[Floppin]

Ugh, so many people are clueless to how contracts work it's painful.

So look, just because a player is said to make "16 million per year" that doesn't mean his cap hit is exactly 16 million each year. It just means that that's the average value of the contract as divided by years. You can structure the salary how ever you like to make the cap hit vary from year to year. This is why the first couple of years of a contract's base salary are generally low and the rest is backloaded. This allows the player to receive a large signing bonus up front, the cap hit of which is divided evenly over the life of the contract (this is where dead money comes from, as well as remaining guaranteed salary), while taking an initial minimal salary to keep their cap hit low.

So in summation, a team could sign Norman to a 16 per contract and only have a first year cap hit in the 5-10 range if they chose to do so.

[TheNewStandard]

Chicago or Detroit and yes, he'll be taking less$ because he's not an island like the rest of the top CBs in the league.

#Zone_Coverage

[TuckerMax25]

1 hour ago, TheNewStandard said:

Chicago or Detroit and yes, he'll be taking less$ because he's not an island like the rest of the top CBs in the league.

#Zone_Coverage

Bet he gets 15. 

[Bartin]

Pats would sign him the same way they signed Revis two years ago.