02-28-2023, 02:02 AM
(02-27-2023, 05:27 PM)casear2727 Wrote: How does a percentage of the cap help the team in any way?
Florio keeps preaching this and it makes zero sense to me.
Today's world; as the cap rises the QB deal becomes a lesser percentage of the cap, that is good for signing other players.
A percentage of the cap would most likely be considered guaranteed, how would that be calculated for future years as to being in compliance with the escrow requirement?
I do not see any benefit for this idea other than the QB is getting a raise every year, it most likely negates the opportunity to be creative with rolling guarantees, etc., and would defitniely prevent the signing of some new free agents every year.
I wish Pat or Mike or anyone, would explain to me how this is beneficial to the team moving forward.
I think the explanation is that the player gets guaranteed raises later when the cap is able to absorb them more easily. Therefore, the player will accept less up front. Gives the team more flexibility in early years and cost certainty later (eliminates risk to team that 'normal' raises eat up too much cap later on). Player gets 'fair' raises, in line with rise in cap (i.e., league revenue). You are right, though; if the player won't take less in early years for this feature, there isn't much reason for team to want to do it.
