(12-02-2015, 04:54 PM)pally Wrote: As if he needed any more incentive to aim for that first round bye...achieving that is worth a cool extra million to his base salary.

CBS Sports

By Joel Corry

Winning in January has even more importance for Andy Dalton: The six-year, $96 million contract extension Dalton signed in 2014 had $18 million of base salary escalators tied to playoff performance that could have increased the overall value of the deal to $114 million. $15 million can still be earned.

Eighty percent or more regular season offensive playtime and reaching the divisional playoffs with at least 80 percent offensive playtime in any prior playoff games in that season increases the base salaries in the rest of his contract each by $1 million. Another $500,000 is added for reaching the conference championship game if those same playtime requirements are met. It becomes a $3 million per season escalation with a Super Bowl win and the requisite playtime.

The Bengals getting a bye for the wild card playoff round has added significance for Dalton. Postseason playtime or Dalton's first playoff win wouldn't be required for his 2016 through 2020 base salaries to increase by $1 million to push the average of his deal to $16,833,333 million per year. Any part of the escalator that isn't earned this season will be available in the remaining contract years.

(12-02-2015, 06:01 PM)Joelist Wrote: And even if Andy hit all his accelerators it is still a team cap friendly deal. Per Spotrac the biggest hit it can ever be per year is around 20 million and that assumes playing 80% or more of snaps and Super Bowl.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cincinnati-bengals/andy-dalton/

(12-02-2015, 06:01 PM)Joelist Wrote: And even if Andy hit all his accelerators it is still a team cap friendly deal. Per Spotrac the biggest hit it can ever be per year is around 20 million and that assumes playing 80% or more of snaps and Super Bowl.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cincinnati-bengals/andy-dalton/

(12-02-2015, 08:28 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: I hope he gets his 20 mil cap hit then.

(12-02-2015, 04:57 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote:

(12-02-2015, 10:17 PM)gobobro Wrote: People hated that contract because they didn't bother to understand it.

...I think I read somewhere that Dalton is the 20th highest paid QB for 2015. I think we're getting our money's worth.

(12-02-2015, 07:48 PM)Joelist Wrote: It's interesting to compare Andy's deal to, say, that of Joe Flacco. Unlike Flacco Andy's deal was light on signing bonus and guaranteed money and the result is very little "dead money". And the incentives are structured so that a "maxxed out" contract has a 20.7 million annual hit. Plus the structure gives both Andy and the team a LOT of flexibility to restructure if the need somehow arose.

Flacco's deal meanwhile had a giant signing bonus (29 million) plus another 29 million guaranteed. The end result is enormous cap numbers starting in 2016 (28.5 million) and not a lot of restructuring flexibility due to his huge dead cap number.

It was like a perfect storm for us - Katie has been superb at the contracts ever since she took the lead in that area and we have also had players generally willing to work with us (especially in Andy's case).

(12-02-2015, 11:36 PM)Joelist Wrote: Plus Andy's very cap friendly deal made AJ Green's extension doable - and it also is very cap friendly.

See a trend? We don't structure contracts like a lot of the rest of the league and as a result we have little to no dead cap money. And on this one you have to tip your hat to Katie because it is her area.

(12-02-2015, 11:36 PM)Joelist Wrote: Plus Andy's very cap friendly deal made AJ Green's extension doable - and it also is very cap friendly.

See a trend? We don't structure contracts like a lot of the rest of the league and as a result we have little to no dead cap money. And on this one you have to tip your hat to Katie because it is her area.

(12-02-2015, 09:00 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: Conker: Bad Fur Day

(12-03-2015, 03:14 AM)zygrot24 Wrote: Hopefully Andy joins the 20 mill club this year

(12-02-2015, 07:48 PM)Joelist Wrote: It's interesting to compare Andy's deal to, say, that of Joe Flacco. Unlike Flacco Andy's deal was light on signing bonus and guaranteed money and the result is very little "dead money". And the incentives are structured so that a "maxxed out" contract has a 20.7 million annual hit. Plus the structure gives both Andy and the team a LOT of flexibility to restructure if the need somehow arose.

Flacco's deal meanwhile had a giant signing bonus (29 million) plus another 29 million guaranteed. The end result is enormous cap numbers starting in 2016 (28.5 million) and not a lot of restructuring flexibility due to his huge dead cap number.

It was like a perfect storm for us - Katie has been superb at the contracts ever since she took the lead in that area and we have also had players generally willing to work with us (especially in Andy's case).