01-23-2017, 01:12 PM
(01-23-2017, 12:44 PM)Au165 Wrote: There is much more to a contract than the per year average. You can use signing bonuses and such to change the year to year dynamic of contracts. Normally when they say team friendly it is more about the structure than the number itself. The issue tends to be the cap number and there are ways to manipulate that to make everyone happy.
In the context I'm referring to...fans that say 'team friendly' mean Zeitler signs for $6-7 million a year.
How are we going to build a championship level team if we constantly let our good free agents leave because they want what is deemed too much money and then don't sign quality external free agents?
With the new rookie pool...it should be easier to retain guys as with a Top 10 pick years ago you would have potentially had to pay a guy $50 million. Now guys are slotted and rookie deals are relatively cheap early on.
