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[Mike M (the other one)]

(04-03-2020, 11:27 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: No, because he still had to agree to the contract in principle before the trade happened. He could have hit the FA market as a 28-year-old DPOY, but chose to take a backloaded deal instead.

He's a DPOY, All-Pro, Pro Bowler who accepted a contract where the final $75.9m in cap hits can be avoided with $12m in dead cap space, or the final $48.75m in cap hits can be avoided with just $2.6m in dead cap space.

It hits the majority of his 7 qualifiers. If you want it to hit all 7 of his specific qualifiers, you must be the type of people who watch baseball and love to hear about records where "he's hit the most groundrule doubles on a Tuesday games that are played a night in a dome off of left handed relief pitchers named Smith."

And you have to realize that if they cut him and take that 2 mil hit. If he is still playing well, he will get another nice contract and with a new signing bonus probably easily make that 50 mil in 2 years just like the original contract or they could restructure and give him a new signing bonus and stretch that out so he still makes about the same as he would if under the original contract. It's a gamble for both.

Positives and negatives in both directions. 

With that said. The Bears thought they were only a couple players away from turning things around. Unfortunately Mitch isn't cooperating like they wanted.