01-26-2017, 11:57 PM
(01-23-2017, 01:43 PM)Au165 Wrote: As I said, you could realistically pay him 6-7 a year if you structured the guarantee/signing bonus correct. So while the per year looks like more it is only 6-7 a year against the cap, which is team friendly. The per year is a misleading number because so much of it is not guaranteed and on longer deals most is never seen. This is how we have always signed our guys is by creative structuring. I'm not saying 6-7 is the number (haven't even looked yet honestly), but we don't necessarily have to have the same per year to give him a similar deal to decastro.
Actually Bengals are the least creative team in how they structure their salaries. That is not a criticism. They do not give huge signing bonuses to push money into the later years. That is why they rarely have dead money. They avoid paying signing bonuses by giving a high salary in the first year. Basically they say to the player we do not need on give you a signing bonus because we will honour the full length of contract. They keep it pretty simple to avoid being in cap hell.
