Signing(s): Joe Burrow signs extension with the Bengals (5 years, $275 million)
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Brown family are going to need to look for some more revenue streams with this lol
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See the structure of the contract. With the nfl rules about putting the guaranteed money into escrow how much of that is fully guaranteed upon signing and how much vests as each new league year begins.
Jones, Kroenke, etc can cut that cheque no problem. Can the Brown family?
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If you’re an NFL owner, you can cut any check you want unless you’re either cheap or stupid.
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And now to enjoy a few years of catch up with the Bengals while they've got that and the Steelers have a rookie QB contract.
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The way Burrow has reinvigorated the franchise has been putting a lot more money in the pockets of the team owners no? Tickets, merch, etc... so doesn't the contract kind of pay for itself?
As it looks right now, Burrows’ annual payday exceeds the entire CFL payroll…that’s nine teams!
Cfl payroll cap is $5.45 mill CAD. 9 teams it’s under $50 mill CAD so in USD it’s like $37.5 mill give or take. More than a few QBs get that on an average annual value.
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That is a BIG CHECK they had to write to the league office.
$219 million right then and there to held in escrow
probably why the deal took so long to announce, had to get all those funds together.
$219 million right then and there to held in escrow
probably why the deal took so long to announce, had to get all those funds together.
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Only year 2 for Watson and he restructured his contract. By the end of this season, Browns would have paid him $90 mill and only incurred a total of $30 mill in cap charges over the first 2 seasons.
But, when talking the top players, it's mostly converting base salary into a bonus and pushing the cap hit down the line, vs potentially releasing a player should he not accept a pay cut to what he would likely fetch on the open market.
So, expect Cincy and Burrow to work together to move things around, but he's still getting his money. Just pushing the charges down the line.
When you get to a transition year or you have a new management group, that's when you take your bath of big dead cap. TB this season is taking it hard with $76 mill in dead money, with almost half of it $35 mill due to Tom Brady. AZ, with a new regime is eating it big for ($47 mill for the team and $21 mill of that due to Hopkins) and likely preparing to eat whatever they would need on Murray should they be bad this season and decide to move off him (likely via trade) for next season.
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He brought this team back to relevance.
The Bengals. The Bengals are relevant and not the league's unplanned pregnancy. We may not ever win a Super Bowl with him but every year he's healthy they'll be relevant for a while.
He deserves everything he's earned.
The Bengals. The Bengals are relevant and not the league's unplanned pregnancy. We may not ever win a Super Bowl with him but every year he's healthy they'll be relevant for a while.
He deserves everything he's earned.
