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Bauer has no clue what a travesty is. A travesty is when a franchise pays some clown like Albert Haynesworth $40M or guarantees $40M it can't recover to an imbecile just to get it's QB into camp in his rookie season, or pays a pro bowl CB $7.8M so he can blow multiple game changing plays in the only game that most believe matters all season...
Apparently every team that ever extends a player rather than tear up his contract commits a travesty. Brady has been travestied here on three seperate occasions now, including twice after being named a SB MVP...
Tedy Bruschi told his wife after he was drafted that it was his intention to be the player who played his entire career with one team...and he did. Rodney Harrison was asked to take a $900K paycut after suffering back to back injury shortened seasons. That money was then given back to him the following season allowing him to complete the 5 year $16M deal the pundits all said he would never see the back end of here...
After his superbowl winning pro bowl season, Jahri Evans was tendered as an RFA in 2010 and his deal was an extension of that tender. He got $19M in the first two years and will see $27M in the first 3 if he's still on the roster or they haven't decided to restructure him by 2012 as they did with Reggie Bush who may be gone altogether in the final year of his rookie deal and whom NO probably wishes they had decided to move on from a year sooner... Mankins was offered a 5 year deal that reportedly included upwards of $25M in guaranteed money. The essential difference in the two deals is the younger Evans was offered 2 more years of unguaranteed money he may never see anyway at the backend of his deal similar to what Bush was restructured to midway through his rookie deal. The Patriots have tended to avoid the phony backloaded salary deals like the one Ty Law signed in Bill's tenure. As impressive as they sound, most players never see those years.
The superagent of Fresno State is pissed because Logan Mankins is his only high profile client these days and under a franchise tag Frank will only see a 1% commission as opposed to the 3% he'd be in line for on a long term deal. He's also made it increasingly unlikely the NEP will tap the Fresno State pipeline again any time soon. SD reached for another of Sun West's Fresno State clients last season and after a week long TC holdout were disappointed in the performance of LaClassian's supposed replacement.
Cousin Mo, Fabulous stuff!!
Well researched and constructed.
The major fact and concern of Mr. Bauer is that he cost his client $6m. Most he will more than likely never recover new Team or deal withstanding, unless his new deal reached goes to the six year or so. He is hoping his blustering will get Mankins to target his anger on the Patriots and not Frank Bauer. Example:
We assume Mankins was offered in the vicinity of $7m per year by the Pats. Frankie wanted $8m or his client was going to be insulted. Who should be insulted are some of the bread and butter players who are on STs or even his own back ups that will now not be afforded even the smallest increase in salary or may be CAP victims because of Mankins desire of getting paid a kings ransom.
I believe that Mankins got paid around a little less than a million to come back last year. His main reason the come back was for contract "year" eligibility and not likely to help the Pats. Let's get that straight. If he signed his new deal his salary was to be about $7m. Therefor Frank Bauer cost him $6m.
If he can get the $8m he wants from another Team for a five year contract let's say, that is $40m (I am simplifying here). If he took the Pats deal for five that I believe were the term years, that was $35 million. He is still out a million dollars. Bauer does NOT want Mankins to sign the Tender because Bauer's percentage is less. But if you do the arithmetic, the $10m Mankins get this year, it actually might serve as a entree into resolving this and the Pats can keep their contract parameters in line over the next four years, yet Bauer saves face. $10m in year one, and the rest at $7m per year equates to pretty close to Franks fantasy world $8m per. Say the Pats might have stretched to $7.5m, other than the exact guarantee number, the Pays save a little plus the obvious fact that salary levels will increase so the deal in four years might be financially attractive to the Pats in comparison.
For all of those on this forum who say "Just pay the man", why don't we talk to the families of say a McGowan or a White who, one will more than likely be cut or the other have to play ST for a living for his family and know his shelf life can end on one play. It is NOT like there is an infinite money that can be doled out on each player. A total financial limitation level is established for each team(and the CAP will be reinstated again).
Maybe the Pats put Bauer in a room with a pencil and calculator and with the whole Pats roster with each salary listed and those due for contract extensions or terminations to keep CAP and ask Frank what he thinks the Pats should do so his client can be paid the highest of any lineman in the NFL. "Frankie, who should we clear from this roster or ask to take a pay cut so your client is not offered such a travesty of a salary?"
Ah....absurdity at its' highest!
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