"Salary cap crunch"

[SErebel11]

(03-11-2021, 09:37 AM)Au165 Wrote: A couple of things, David's contract isn't actually what you described at all. David's deal is the new "en vogue" voided years many teams are running. It's a 5-year contract with 3 years that void immediately after the Super Bowl of his second year. Many of your deals were lower than average guaranteed money, this is an 80% guaranteed contract which is a ton on a multi-year deal. If your contention was that teams could overcome lower cap numbers by offering nearly fully guaranteed multi-year contracts then I'd more likely agree with you, that doesn't appear to be what you described though. My understanding of your first post examples was to offer multi-year below average to average market deals with 30% guaranteed and try to backload them.

I described it above: 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. 


That is 20.5M of the 26.5M. I was using the examples in the initial post to show how the Bengals cap side of it would work. I later explained to get a deal done they would have to offer a lot of guaranteed money. My main point is with these 1 year deals that people assume makes more sense that for this season with an older vet it makes more sense cap wise to sign them to a 2-3 year deal and stretch it out taking the risk of more back end money and with more guaranteed money.