Shaq Barrett staying in Tampa

[Luvnit2]

(03-15-2021, 04:59 PM)Au165 Wrote: No, it's because 18 of it is a signing bonus which is writing a check now that gets spread out over the life of the contract. That isn't usually their MO writing big signing bonus checks from what I heard on a podcast yesterday. A lot isn't guaranteed down the stretch though and that sounds like it' more of a "we will address those issues when they come" in terms of needing to cut bait with him. 

Maybe I misread your comment and you were stating they had been cheap in the past.

That may be true, but in this case they are just the opposite. They seem to paying a lot of guys (including Brady) huge signing bonuses spread out over years. The issue becomes for them if Barrett is injured, they are on the hook for the rest of the 36 million guaranteed + the portion of the signing bonus not yet applied to any cap year.

They are leveraging their future in essence, a lot of teams do it. We should do more of it.