03-05-2023, 06:06 PM
(03-04-2023, 02:13 AM)Au165 Wrote: This is a bunch of straw man arguments, semantics and nonsense. Your argument isn’t even arguing anything at this point except bouncing around to random points. Someone did say the last year couldn’t change, it wasn’t you but my point was to him. As to your point, still don’t know what you’re even arguing. You said “this isn’t how extensions work” and yet again yes what I described is exactly how an extension can work.
Guess what, if that last year of the deal is nothing like the deal they signed as a rookie they did in fact “tear it up”. Which is exactly what does happen often and most likely will happen on any Tee Higgins deal.
Yes, the salary bonuses get added in ti some degree when the player signs a new deal, but since it is usually spread out, it is not that big of an increase. I mean, the looming cap issues hit when Burrow goes from $10 to $50 (2025), Higgins goes from $3 to $20 (2024), and Chase goes from $13 to $30 (2026), not because their extension pro-rated signing bonuses get added on before the extension kicks in. Those don't balloon their salaries. The extensions do when they kick in AFTER the original contract expires. The original contract numbers stay the same, they don't get changed because someone signs an extension. When the original terms altered, that is a restructure, not an extension.
