Contract Extension For Chung: Details To Come

KDPpatsfan said:

I’d like to see TB12 reduce that cap number. Yeah, I know...but if it’s really still about winning for him, that cap number doesn’t help the team do that.

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The real issue is how to pay Brady what he is worth. It was one thing for him to get 15 million when there were only a couple of QB’s getting more, now that is becoming back up money.

wonder how much Morgan Burnett has left.. could cover many options if he is upto a cheap deal.

titletownpats said:

Any idea what date they have to do Brady restructure before to get cap savings for this season? I thought I read he gets guaranteed $ today or some type of pay.

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I believe that the deadline for restructures is well into the season. We have possible restructures of Allan, Brady, Gronk, Gostkowski, Hogan, McCourty and Cooks. All would free up cap space.

However, the patriots are not a team that likes to push lots of cap money into the future. We have several key players to deal with in 2019 including Cooks, Flowers, Mason and Hogan.

Patsgofor4 said:

Ugh, don’t remind us. I will never understand or forgive the decision to ask Chung to essentially be a slot corner while giving meaningful snaps to Richards in the SB. This was a more egregious mistake than benching Butler, IMO. I love BB in a platonic way as much as anyone I know but his arrogance and stubbornness probably cost them that game.

Anyway....happy for Chung. Well deserved.

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Umm Chung played that role a lot all season.

Good for Chung, but I really don't understand this. I was told that all the Patriots stars were miserable. Why would he voluntarily choose to stay here?

One of the best career turnarounds I’ve seen is him coming back to the team in 2014 after his terrible year in Philly. Just to get a perspective, here we’re some quotes reacting to him being brought back: (will keep anonymous, since most of us felt this way)

“Why, just why.”

“I hope he's cut in TC. Saw a mock draft today that had Pryor falling all the way to 29 for the Patriots. I would LOVE for that to happen.”

“Maybe the team feels it's important for Tavon Wilson's self-esteem that he knows there's someone he can beat out at safety?”

“Please tell me this is a f******ing joke!”

“An offseason that started with a bang has been followed by some borderline terrible ideas. Chung sucked when he was here. He sucked even harder in Philly. Does the team think that he's somehow not going to suck now that he's back here?”


You get the idea.

titletownpats said:

Any idea what date they have to do Brady restructure before to get cap savings for this season? I thought I read he gets guaranteed $ today or some type of pay.

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He didn't get any new money. Apparently the Patriots fully guaranteed his 2018 salary on 3/16 (normally it becomes "fully guaranteed" in Week 1).

FWIW, that salary is $14M, which they can reduce down to $1M by turning the remaining $13M into a signing bonus. If they just spread that out over these two years, it's $6.5M savings this year. If they combine it with an extension, they could get it up to $9M+.

mgteich said:

I believe that the deadline for restructures is well into the season.

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You can restructure at essentially any time, but you can't re-categorize past payments.

If Chung hasn't been extended, I don't see how this can have any cap effect. I would hope that this would be an extension.

AndyJohnson said:

Umm Chung played that role a lot all season.

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And is quite effective at it.

mgteich said:

If Chung hasn't been extended, I don't see how this can have any cap effect. I would hope that this would be an extension.

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Since it is being called an extension I assume it would be an extension.

Joey007 said:

One of the best career turnarounds I’ve seen is him coming back to the team in 2014 after his terrible year in Philly. Just to get a perspective, here we’re some quotes reacting to him being brought back: (will keep anonymous, since most of us felt this way)

“Why, just why.”

“I hope he's cut in TC. Saw a mock draft today that had Pryor falling all the way to 29 for the Patriots. I would LOVE for that to happen.”

“Maybe the team feels it's important for Tavon Wilson's self-esteem that he knows there's someone he can beat out at safety?”

“Please tell me this is a f******ing joke!”

“An offseason that started with a bang has been followed by some borderline terrible ideas. Chung sucked when he was here. He sucked even harder in Philly. Does the team think that he's somehow not going to suck now that he's back here?”


You get the idea.

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It would be more fun if you included who the posts were made by.

from Reiss


The combination has worked, with Chung recently saying he wouldn't want to play for anyone other than Belichick: "When he's done, I'm done."

AndyJohnson said:

It would be more fun if you included who the posts were made by.

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But how do you know if you weren’t one of them?

Joey007 said:

But how do you know if you weren’t one of them?

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I read them

AndyJohnson said:

I read them

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Then you have the answers to who quoted what

Joey007 said:

Then you have the answers to who quoted what

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No I mean I read the quotes you posted and know I wouldn’t have written any of them.
Geez are we taking a joke a little too far?

AndyJohnson said:

No I mean I read the quotes you posted and know I wouldn’t have written any of them.
Geez are we taking a joke a little too far?

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I am not, I think you didn’t pick up my sarcasm I’m the first response.

Ivan said:

The real issue is how to pay Brady what he is worth. It was one thing for him to get 15 million when there were only a couple of QB’s getting more, now that is becoming back up money.

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I suspect that Brady doesn't care much about his APY at this point, his average over the past 18 years is nearly $11M. His total earnings are now over $192M in real money.

His salary is "only" $15M, but his current APY for the remainder of his contract is $22M, including signing bonus. That's a bit more than "backup money".

mgteich said:

We have several key players to deal with in 2019 including Cooks, Flowers, Mason and Hogan.

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Well, for starters you can safely assume that 2/4 names on the list will move on. It seems that every year we talk of all these key players that are due big money deals. and I’ve yet to ever see it happen in terms of keeping the majority. That’s just the nature of free agency. Ultimately, it would be great to see them lock one of these four up before the season starts, and then we can hope to retain 1 out of the remaining 3 next spring in free agency. That may sound pessimistic, but it’s the true reality of what’s going to happen.

They sure as hell aren’t going to outbid all of the other teams in FA for double digit millions per year for promising young expensive talent like Cooks, Flowers, and Mason. Anyone who thinks that will happen has a very short memory of how free agency works, and only needs to look back to the talk of retaining ALL four of Chandler Jones, HT, Collins, and Butler. I said then that I’d be happy if they could afford to keep 2/4, and that didn’t even happen.