I guess the front office is blind to the reat of the North

[muskiesfan]

(03-13-2019, 01:59 PM)fredtoast Wrote: This makes zero sense.  Frontloading a contract in no way means you are less committed to winning.  In fact it is ofet argued that frontloading contracts is a sign of wanting to win NOW and being able to get out of the contract easier down the road.

This is getting ridiculous.

You're a smart guy. I know you know what I'm saying. If you have $40m in cap space then sign an undeserving player to a 3 year/$15m deal and give them $10m upfront, you now have $30m left to spend. Had you given that same player $5-6m upfront, you would be at $34-35m left to spend. So frontloading contracts to eat up the immediate cap can and does limit what you have available to spend. I even said it makes it easier to let go of the player later on with little to no cap hit. However, this is a team that brags about players seeing every dollar of their contract.

I'm not saying to never frontload a contract. I'm saying constantly doing that allows you to dwindle your available cap much faster. I have little to no doubt that Mike Brown prefers to give a bunch of money upfront to have the ability to cry poor much faster.