Scourton isn't signed (& apparently it's a thing)

[SmokinwithWilly]

If there was a way to do cap compensation for elective retirement or injury forced retirement like Luke or Oher, I could see less argument for guaranteed. 

[Basbear]

My personal opinion is the non-guaranteed contract is the main reason for NFL success. MLB and NBA players are on cruise control after their big contracts and it shows in the product. 

NFL is each year you are fighting for your job. Same for the majority of the public.... You get lazy or try to coast after the 100+ million contract, your ass will be cut within 1-2 years. Then the next one will not even touch 100 million+.

Besides a few NBA players like Kobe was coming for blood with a 300 million contract or 1 doll hair deal.

Brandy Beal just reached a buyout where he was getting 110 million, many other cases..... I dare say his name for the hornets guy..... MLB sooo many times as well. 

 

If the NFL starts fully guaranteeing all contracts, Id have a new hobby to fill the hours of entertainment NFL gave me. 

Edited 14 hours ago by Basbear

[tukafan21]

This is where I feel like Tepper can throw his big wallet around to solve a problem.

Scourton was the 19th pick of the round, even if a few more teams give fully guarantees, I can't see them all getting it.

So don't give him the fully guaranteed deal, but give him a bigger signing bonus than his slot normally would get.  It might piss off other owners for setting a new precedent of giving bigger signing bonuses, but it would help stop the fully guarantee precedent the agents are trying to make.

[TheSpecialJuan]

4 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

This is where I feel like Tepper can throw his big wallet around to solve a problem.

Scourton was the 19th pick of the round, even if a few more teams give fully guarantees, I can't see them all getting it.

So don't give him the fully guaranteed deal, but give him a bigger signing bonus than his slot normally would get.  It might piss off other owners for setting a new precedent of giving bigger signing bonuses, but it would help stop the fully guarantee precedent the agents are trying to make.

[PNW_PantherMan]

8 hours ago, CRA said:

if the guaranteed didn't impact the cap and thus tie our hands in to extent to roster build.....I would agree with you. 

Yea its iffy.  It would be difficult to implement without moving to a soft cap/luxury tax model like NBA and MLB.  NHL pulled off guaranteed contracts with a hard cap, but I don't think that's realistic outside the NHL.  I don't think a luxury tax model would be good for the product, even if its good for the players.  Even though we would probably benefit from it because Tepper would be like the dude who owns the NY Mets now.

[TD alt]

7 hours ago, tukafan21 said:

This is where I feel like Tepper can throw his big wallet around to solve a problem.

Scourton was the 19th pick of the round, even if a few more teams give fully guarantees, I can't see them all getting it.

So don't give him the fully guaranteed deal, but give him a bigger signing bonus than his slot normally would get.  It might piss off other owners for setting a new precedent of giving bigger signing bonuses, but it would help stop the fully guarantee precedent the agents are trying to make.

You're still hamstringing the cap at the end of the day.