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I'm pretty sure that you can't make a deal where the player earns less at the back end. You can load up with a bonus and make the yearly number less, but that exact deal, where you start off making 9/ year and end with 5 can't happen.
There will be a big bonus and a smaller yearly number. That way we can manage a little better if Wes is a passenger in three years.
Sure you can. Brady's last deal was exactly that. Those deals make it easier to retain the player because you have room/flexibility to increasingly amortize as you go if you need or choose to. The trade off is risk because you're paying more up front than per year production alone justifies. Deals are more often backloaded with salary when they are phony deals to fluff agent and player egos no one honestly expects to be completed because the cap hit is prohibitive and the dead cap low enough to leverage the player to take a pay cut or hit the road. We have tended to avoid those kind of ego stroking, self destructively structured deals since the Law/Milloy era passed.