Is Shemar holding out?

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(7 hours ago)bfine32 Wrote: Why would they do it with Burton? The only thing guaranteed in his contract is the signing bonus. 

Shemur's contract will be 100% guaranteed. I see nothing wrong with getting a little "good conduct" assurance. 

But as I've said, folk's minds are made up on this already.

I included Burton in there as a guy who was on video hitting a woman before the Bengals chose to draft him. (He was later accused again, but no charges pressed.) So to frame it as being really concerned about having to pay a person who does violence against women comes off hollow.

The signing bonus is given out on the understanding that you'll play the amount of years in the contract, so if you get the final 3 years voided, you can get a large chunk of the signing bonus forced to be returned. Not sure if it's exactly a 25%/year return, but it's some. It's the same as a player who retires while there's still prorated signing bonus left. Sometimes the team lets the player keep it (the Colts and Luck) and sometimes the team claws it back the unearned portion (the Lions and Calvin Johnson).

I find it odd that people have decided that this is all about Stewart wanting to do crime and still get paid. Instead of wanting a contract just as good as the last guy here got, or at least getting something back in compromise for accepting a worse contract. Nobody was ever saying Mims or Dax just wanted to do crime and get paid, but if you asked them now to put all their guarantees into the Brown/Blackburn's hands/whims in exchange for nothing in return I am sure they'll decline.