11-16-2018, 05:28 PM
(11-15-2018, 04:41 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: You don't think getting AT LEAST 10 million more in GUARANTEED money than that contract is worth holding out for and skipping out on that 14 million?
(11-15-2018, 09:02 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: I'm still having trouble trying to follow this argument.
I don't think he's reading that correctly because it's 10 million MORE GUARANTEED than the 14 million.
14+10>14.
You're acting like if he would have taken the $14M this year then there would not have been a contract next spring. That's highly unlikely and as I said above, would only be the case if he had sustained an injury that would have prevented him from getting a big contract as a FA in the spring.
In all likelihood he would have gotten the 14 for this year plus the guaranteed money in his next contract. Now he's only getting the guaranteed money in his next contract.
Essentially he gambled $14M that he was going to get catastrophically hurt this year. Honestly there's no way of every really knowing if that would have been the case, but I'd say that the odds would be heavily against him suffering such an injury. And I don't think that any person in their right mind would make that bet either, especially that $14M is a lot of money. I'd see his side more if the tag was very low, say $5M, or oppositely if he was looking at a $100M guaranteed contract in the spring (Bell is so delusional, that might very well be what he's thinking).
And thinking of the larger picture, let's not forget that he's still several months away from getting that contract and he needs to, well.....live. There's plenty of things outside of football that could derail him getting such a huge contract. (God forbid) He could be in a car accident, get some kind of terminal illness, get hit by a car, or just suffer some sort of freak accident like tearing an achilles while training in the off season that will impact his guaranteed money.
Bottom line is that when you have $14M in your hand, you take it and your take your chances, especially when those chances are mostly your actual job that is paying you the $14M.
