The Next 7 Weeks - Almost Nothing Will Happen

QuantumMechanic · Jan 7, 2020

Any extension has to happen by 4pm on March 17th or else the contract voids.

I’m pretty sure teams are allowed to extend their own players since they are currently under contract to the team. There’s no moratorium really because until the league year ends the FAs-to-be are still under contract and you can never sign a player who’s under contract to another team. You can’t even legally talk to them, aside from the “legal tampering period” in the dying days of the league year.

BTTA · Jan 7, 2020

IcyPatriot said:
That's a pay only unfortunately.

Just click the x in the pop up window and read freely.

Deus Irae · Jan 7, 2020

IcyPatriot said:
That's a pay only unfortunately.

I chopped the relevant stuff into pieces. Feel free to edit it down as you deem necessary:

Brady’s contract officially voids on the final day of the 2019 league year. The 2020 season begins on March 18 at 4 p.m., so Brady will become an unrestricted free agent 24 hours prior to that.

The Patriots can always re-sign Brady after March 18, but it makes far more sense to do it before his contract voids on the 17th, because of salary cap ramifications.

When Brady agreed to a new contract in August, it came with a $20.25 million signing bonus. For salary cap purposes, this bonus gets spread out over three years: $6.75 million in each of 2019, 2020 and 2021.

If Brady doesn’t play for the Patriots next year, or if the contract voids on March 17, the remaining $13.5 million in cap space will accelerate to the 2020 season. And any contract Brady signs with the Patriots after March 17 has to include the $13.5 million acceleration.

But if the Patriots are able to sign Brady to a new contract before March 17, they can split that money in half — $6.75 million on the 2020 salary cap, and $6.75 million in 2021. They can’t split it down any further than that, even if they sign him to, say, a four-year contract.

Either way, the Patriots will have to take a salary cap hit on Brady next year. But if Brady is going to play for them in 2020, the best course of action is to take care of his new deal before March 17.

So at least the decision shouldn’t drag out across the offseason. We should know Brady’s fate by mid-March.

A look at the timing in play for Brady, McDaniels, and other Patriots who might be moving on - The Boston Globe

Tunescribe · Jan 7, 2020

KontradictioN said:
Thanks. I was wondering about the coaches and this thread pretty much summed things up.

Good, folks have been anxious to know what you were thinking.

Vatahala · Jan 8, 2020

Can Pats work on signing guys like Joe Thuney now?

1960Pats · Jan 8, 2020

IcyPatriot said:
That's a pay only unfortunately.

The Globe? Really? I wouldn't spend a penny on their propoganda.

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Sciz · Jan 8, 2020

Vatahala said:
Can Pats work on signing guys like Joe Thuney now?

Yes, but they’d have to completely blow him away to do that. There’s basically no reason for him to take any offer from the Patriots before finding out what other teams are willing to pay him.

If Nate Solder and Trent Brown can both become the highest paid tackles, then I feel like Thuney has a good chance of becoming the highest paid guard.

Kontradiction · Jan 8, 2020

Tunescribe said:
Good, folks have been anxious to know what you were thinking.

Seinfeld would be proud of this thread.

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