Josh Norman just became a UFA

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(04-22-2016, 11:25 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Yeah but the Bengals are known for letting guys finish out their contracts so they see every dollar.   Leon Hall is a great recent example.     Housh would have made more money here than he did leaving.    MJ felt it as well.    

Guaranteed money isn't an issue for Cincy since they let guys finish the contract.    Teams that don't is where it matters.

(04-23-2016, 11:41 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: FIFY.

Some players are still going to prefer the safety of the guaranteed money. The Bengals are loyal (often to a fault), but they're not honoring contracts on players with shredded knees and bum ankles. Injuries are part of the game and that's why some players are going to prefer more guaranteed money.

This, a lot, Shake. Sure you can say "we normally let people play out their contracts".. do you want to be the exception? Because it's not an "always" it's a "normally" or whatnot.

There's been plenty of people who didn't play out their contract with the Bengals. Bryant, Allen, Coles, Harrison, Odom, Johnson got traded, Tank Johnson got cut 1 year into a 4 year deal because he didn't have any more guaranteed money. Shit, this is just off the top of my head and there's more than I thought recently-ish.

Unless it says fully guaranteed, a lot of contracts are mostly guaranteed for generally just injury. Like Norman's $75m, $50m is guaranteed, but only $36.5m fully guaranteed. That means they can cut him right this second for being a turd or not being able to cover a rock and he gets $36.5m.. if he tears both his knees by slipping on two banana peels in training camp, he still gets $50m. That's $40-45m-ish more than he would have likely gotten with the Bengals if he suffered a career ending injury.