Onwenu Takes Paycut for 2026

[Wozzy]

rather than dancing, answer the question

how in any way imaginable can Onwenu make $19m this season?
how in any way imaginable did he not take a pay cut?

He didn’t make 19M in 2024, he made 24M.

Again… you haven’t seen the details of this contract. You have no clue what incentive are tied up in it.

I never said he didn’t take a pay cut, I said he didn’t take the pay cut you said he did. i also said his contract had zero guarantees left on it, they could have cut him outright and paid him nothing. Or they could have traded him to a horrible team considering they still owned his rights.

This has nothing to do with the cap being crap and everything to do with the last year being a bookkeeping year.

 

[upstater1]

Good point, let's overpay for average guards...
He may have been averaging $17m a year, but that is not what he was being paid in his final year, this year. It is not what his cap hit was this year...

???

What are you even talking about?

My response had nothing to do what with what he's getting paid this year. I think it's smart, and he knows it too because if he was cut, teams wouldn't have the cash to pay him as much.

But you're wrong if you believe he's not going to make $17m in the free agent market next year a( if he plays as well as he played last year).

Are you not aware that we paid a broken, often injured guard in Vera-Tucker $14.5m? That's the market.

 

[mgteich]

Onwenu and the team agreed that he wasn't worth $17.5M on the open market. They agreed on $10M. Perhaps someone else MIGHT have offered a bit more. There are lots of reason for Onwenu to accept the cut.

1) He likes the familiarity with the patriot Offense and with the patriots.
2) He wants to retire a patriot.
3) He wants a chance to increase his value before his goes to free agency after the season. Of course, the patriots might be in the bidding. In any case, he probably has a better chance to increase his value here than on a new team.

But make no mistake. Onwenu's contract called for him to be paid $17.5M and he will be paid $10M

 

[Wozzy]

Onwenu and the team agreed that he wasn't worth $17.5M on the open market. They agreed on $10M. Perhaps someone else MIGHT have offered a bit more. There are lots of reason for Onwenu to accept the cut.

1) He likes the familiarity with the patriot Offense and with the patriots.
2) He wants to retire a patriot.
3) He wants a chance to increase his value before his goes to free agency after the season. Of course, the patriots might be in the bidding. In any case, he probably has a better chance to increase his value here than on a new team.

But make no mistake. Onwenu's contract called for him to be paid $17.5M and he will be paid $10M

Wait for the details of the contract to come out.

When the Patriots did a similar reworking on Judon’s contract in 2023 the restructured deal allowed him to earn up to $4 million more through incentives. Those were easy to hit incentives based mostly on snaps and availability.

We have no clue what the details of the contract are.

 

[p8ryts]

Wait for the details of the contract to come out.

When the Patriots did a similar reworking on Judon’s contract in 2023 the restructured deal allowed him to earn up to $4 million more through incentives. Those were easy to hit incentives based mostly on snaps and availability.

We have no clue what the details of the contract are.

He had no guaranteed money, resigning gave him 10 M guaranteed. That's how I understood it.

 

[Wozzy]

He had no guaranteed money, resigning gave him 10 M guaranteed. That's how I understood it.

Agreed.

 

[Hyped]

No Moses?

Campbell - Tucker - Wilson - Onwenu - Moses

I’d like to see Lomu supplant Moses this year though …same with Wilson over Bradbury.

 

[Hyped]

Moses is the starting RT. Lomu isn't taking that unless Moses goes down with injury.

Moses has 4.5M in guarantees this year. So he's unlikely to be cut.

Lomu looks pretty good to me though. I am OK with Moses as a swing tackle if Lomu proves to be the real thing.

 

[mgteich]

Lomu looks pretty good to me though. I am OK with Moses as a swing tackle if Lomu proves to be the real thing.

Lomu can beat out Moses this year, the I would expect Moses to the backup RT.

If Campbell is out. I would expect Lomu to move to LT and Moses to step in at RT,

This is much, much stronger than expecting Moses to play LT, where he has very rarely played.

 

[Brady85-23]

Do you give gonzo 35 a year?
Right now the #1 corner is making 31 a year

 

[Huckleberry1]

I would give Gonzalez a top 3 CB contract. If he wants more than that he will be waiting for year 6 to get paid. The Patriots should make it clear that he won't get more than the current top 3 by waiting another year, and that they will franchise him if he plays out the 5 years. At a certain point you have to play hardball.