03-01-2023, 07:38 PM
(03-01-2023, 04:29 AM)casear2727 Wrote: Tyler's extension worked like everyone else's. The signing bonus is always paid in full in the year the extension is signed.
It wasnt a voodoo "extension", it was a real Extension, it didnt take his 4th year contract up to 11M, it simply raised his cash received in the 4th year.
He did have some type of renegotiation or bonus hits in his 4th year, but it was less than a million dollars...
Tee can sign a 3 year extension this summer for 60M. He could get a 12M signing bonus, he will have a cap hit of his 4th year salary plus 3M prorated bonus. Doesn't impact his rookie deal, just the cap hit and cash paid....
You may have to get into the "complexity" because I have no idea why you think this is how it works? Where are you getting the figure "most" tear up the final year? I think it is exactly the opposite.
Tyler Boyd's base pay on year 4 per his rookie deal was supposed to be 900k or so. What Tyler Boyd actually got paid in 2019 was 2 million base (Almost the value of the whole contracts base pay), 2.25 million roster bonus (not signing bonus), and a 50k workout bonus (does not exist in rookie 2nd rd contracts). All of that was NOT in his rookie deal and was added to his final year ALONG WITH a 7 million dollar signing bonus that was prorated over the life of his contract.
Your belief on how this works, as was the other dudes, is wrong. The final year number is often renegotiated sometimes minimal sometimes heavily. It's actually funny because the entire logic forgets that restructures exist to literally move the base pay in the later year of a contract into bonus to spread it over the life of the deal, which includes new years. Restructures (specifically void years) are considered extensions but very seriously change the base pay of current contracts which is how this whole argument started with the belief you could not change that final year, which happens all the time.
