09-02-2020, 10:03 AM
(09-01-2020, 10:35 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: He gets all of his signing bonus this year. It's to released upon signing.
What you're referring to is the cap hits of said bonus, which can be spread out at the team's discretion.
Congratulations, I'm going to bow it from this thread. I'm done debating people who don't understand how any of this works.
Wes, early on in this thread no one understood the contract details because it wasn't released. You were pounding your first on the table (erroneously) stating the Bengals had set his value at $12 million per year and that is that.
Once the details were made public, you could see a situation where one of the most expensive years on the contract can be voided by the club, which changed the complexion of the deal entirely. The Bengals also wisely put a lot of the contract in the bonus so it could be paid to Joe now, but spread the cap hit out across the length of the contract. You may not want to admit the value of paying Joe, or any RB, that kind of money and that is fine, but you need to realize that it was your early comments about the contract that most people were disagreeing with. Now that you know all the details of the contract, if you don't agree with it....great. That is your call.
I, for one, think the structure of the deal is outstanding and I am ecstatic that they were able to get it done and now let's watch what happens around the league as guys like Kamara fight for their deals.
Dorothy Mantooth is still a Saint. We are all good, bud.