08-29-2021, 03:19 PM
(08-29-2021, 03:07 PM)Au165 Wrote: I’ll say this as nice as I can, I understand how contracts work better than 99% of all people here. Money spent is money spent, cap numbers are for accounting and don’t actually correlate to actual dollars leaving the building. The cap can be manipulated and the floor is really loose in terms of actually forcing spending. Players agents always want guarantees, as they should, but it doesn’t make them cheap because in the end the money is spent, guaranteed or not.
I think you can call them conservative in structure, but again not cheap because at the end of the day money out the door means that statement is false.
I'm not saying they are necessarily cheap. There is a definite perception of them being cheap mainly based on guaranteed money in contracts and cap mgmt around the league is all I was saying. I think they are a little too conservative and could start offering more guaranteed and work the cap more agressively but they haven't been complete cheapskates or anything like that recently.
We have signed guys to pretty big deals which are also considered more team friendly because they don't have alot of guaranteed money. We also have traditionally had top 10 in available cap money year after year. We are not a team that is in contstant restructure mode to manipulate cap. Some view this as cheap but I think it's just being conservative and not necessarily cheap as you really don't want to be in a position where you are robbing peter to pay paul every year.
