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dtrain · 07-26-2023, 07:03 AM

Found this an interesting read only part of article
https://arrowheadaddict.com/posts/ch...rushers-chiefs

If you aren't on board with giving Jones a deal with that high of average, you're really going to think what I'm about to suggest is crazy. After playing with the numbers a little, I think I would offer Jones a five-year deal. Something like 5 years, $150 million ($30 million/year average), with $80 million guaranteed. That would put him second behind all pass rushers behind Aaron Donald on a yearly average and would be the largest total dollar contract for a defender in the entire NFL.

That may sound crazy, but by spreading the money out over five years you can keep the cap hits down more in the first couple of years of the deal and give the team more options in what they want to do with Jones after the guaranteed money is finished. If you do a four-year deal for $30 million/year, you either have to have big cap numbers right away or have a ridiculously huge number in the fourth year of the deal that everyone knows will never be paid.

Here's a simplified example of how a deal like this could work. $25 million of the $80 million guaranteed is a signing bonus that is pro-rated over all five years of the deal. Then the remaining $55 million that is guaranteed is his salary for the first three seasons. So essentially you have a fully guaranteed three-year deal and after that the only dead money if he is cut is the remaining signing bonus cap hits. So the yearly breakdown could be something like this:

Year 1 - Fully guaranteed $15 million cap hit ($5 million signing bonus, $10 million salary)
Year 2 - Fully guaranteed $25 million cap hit ($5 million signing bonus, $20 million salary)
Year 3 - Fully guaranteed $30 million cap hit ($5 million signing bonus, $25 million salary)
Year 4 - $35 million cap hit (only $5 million signing bonus is guaranteed)
Year 5 - $45 million cap hit (only $5 million signing bonus is guaranteed)

So in year 4 of the deal (2026) the Chiefs would have options. They could keep Jones (who would be 32 that season) if he's still worth the $35 million cap hit, they could save $25 million in cap space by cutting him and only have $10 million in dead cap, or they could renegotiate if Jones' play has started to decline. The proposed fifth year is highly unlikely to be reached, but this structure at least makes the fourth year possible. While it would be a five-year deal on paper, it would essentially be a fully guaranteed three-year deal with an optional fourth year and no more than $10 million in dead money after the first three years.

07-26-2023, 07:03 AM	#281
dtrain Who's your daddy? Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Junction City Casino cash: $-1176694	Found this an interesting read only part of article https://arrowheadaddict.com/posts/ch...rushers-chiefs If you aren't on board with giving Jones a deal with that high of average, you're really going to think what I'm about to suggest is crazy. After playing with the numbers a little, I think I would offer Jones a five-year deal. Something like 5 years, $150 million ($30 million/year average), with $80 million guaranteed. That would put him second behind all pass rushers behind Aaron Donald on a yearly average and would be the largest total dollar contract for a defender in the entire NFL. That may sound crazy, but by spreading the money out over five years you can keep the cap hits down more in the first couple of years of the deal and give the team more options in what they want to do with Jones after the guaranteed money is finished. If you do a four-year deal for $30 million/year, you either have to have big cap numbers right away or have a ridiculously huge number in the fourth year of the deal that everyone knows will never be paid. Here's a simplified example of how a deal like this could work. $25 million of the $80 million guaranteed is a signing bonus that is pro-rated over all five years of the deal. Then the remaining $55 million that is guaranteed is his salary for the first three seasons. So essentially you have a fully guaranteed three-year deal and after that the only dead money if he is cut is the remaining signing bonus cap hits. So the yearly breakdown could be something like this: Year 1 - Fully guaranteed $15 million cap hit ($5 million signing bonus, $10 million salary) Year 2 - Fully guaranteed $25 million cap hit ($5 million signing bonus, $20 million salary) Year 3 - Fully guaranteed $30 million cap hit ($5 million signing bonus, $25 million salary) Year 4 - $35 million cap hit (only $5 million signing bonus is guaranteed) Year 5 - $45 million cap hit (only $5 million signing bonus is guaranteed) So in year 4 of the deal (2026) the Chiefs would have options. They could keep Jones (who would be 32 that season) if he's still worth the $35 million cap hit, they could save $25 million in cap space by cutting him and only have $10 million in dead cap, or they could renegotiate if Jones' play has started to decline. The proposed fifth year is highly unlikely to be reached, but this structure at least makes the fourth year possible. While it would be a five-year deal on paper, it would essentially be a fully guaranteed three-year deal with an optional fourth year and no more than $10 million in dead money after the first three years. __________________ To bad more of the team doesn't have this mentality!!!
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