JoeyBs contract comes first

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(06-05-2023, 08:42 PM)George Cantstandya Wrote: It really depends on how things are structured I guess.  IMO players usually look for the guaranteed money first and foremost because that is their security blanket.    But if we are talking about a percentage of the cap then how much of that percentage is guaranteed?  Because if it is we will always give you X percent of the cap over your contract guaranteed and that player has a career ending injury early on or starts to play terrible for some reason then teams gets the short end of the stick. But if a team has a traditional contract with X amount guaranteed and the player has a career ending injury or gets cut because they started to play terrible over time as the cap increases the hit the team takes is less.  

So my opinion is that a percentage of the cap, if guaranteed, is good for the player and risky for the team.

All great points, but my point was one of the advantages of a % of the Cap deal is it makes it much harder for the player to demand a raise.

Say we give JB $1 Gazillion this year and in 2 years the Jags give Sunshine $1.2 Gazillion. JB's management can come back and say "JB's better than Sunshine; he deserves $1.4 Gazillion." That has 0 negative connotations. But come back and say "JB's more important to the team than the other players, he deserves more of their money". Then...