03-05-2021, 05:35 PM
(03-05-2021, 05:21 PM)SErebel11 Wrote: Well, first off, the valuation of Zeitler for next season for me is 7M dollars. Maybe it is 8 or 9M for you. Regardless, It makes sense in this market for this one year to offer more guaranteed money to a 30+ player to get him to sign a multi year deal 2-3 years at a lower cap number for this season. Not a bunch of those kind of contracts per team but a couple would be reasonable in my opinion particularly for the Bengals situation. Not many teams going to be in a position to take a 9M dollar cap hit signing a guard and be able to augment the rest of their roster.
Using your valuation of 9M. I am suggesting a team could sign Zeitler for 3 years 27M..... 2021 structured at 1M base 9M, 2022 8.5M guaranteed, 2023 8M, 2M guaranteed or something to that effect. Puts more risk on a team but would definitely be more attractive to a player than a 1 year deal.
I guess we will see. I think your assumption a guy would play for the vet minimum just because he got the signing bonus that year is a bit of a reach. I also think you are crazy to think teams are going to take on so much back-loaded money, they are kind of seeing the fallout of that very thing this year. I could potentially see teams try the voidable year approach where it is basically a 3 year deal with two years voided to spread large signing bonuses out, but I get the feeling the NFL may crack down on this.
