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I agree. Yates at ESPN has the actual details. A little different and makes more sense. $30M signing bonus, $1M and $2M salaries fully guaranteed in 2013-2014, no 2015 bonus, just the $7M, $8M and $9M in salaries that are guaranteed for injury but not skill. And implicitly guaranteed by...

Re: Report: Brandon Lloyd Out in NE I always try to take what media claims with a grain of salt. But last year the PFW crew and others noted he was a real dink to Karen Guregian, something they felt underscored what they had heard about his psyche overall. He was said to be bi-polarish. A...

Apparently Reid thinks so and he's on the rebound in an area he knows can get hostile in a hurry. If he thinks Smith can pick up and run his offense, $8M more is well worth the investment to him... Again, Mallett has no time in a WCO similar to Reids. And he's not well suited to it. Smith...

Jason posted his thoughts on what the deal actually entails earlier. If King's cap #'s are correct, and Curran says he has confirmed they are, then the deal is he got a $3M signing bonus that prorates at $600K per year for 5 years. In addition he gets $6.4M in 2013 salary, $7.4M in 2014 salary...

Welker's cap # won't be anywhere near that on a 5 year $8M deal as rumored. And Edelman isn't even seeing $2.5-3M in his dreams unless it's on a 2 year deal...with per game incentives. Edelman is a punt returner and backup receiver or a #3-4 WR on a team that seldom uses that many here. The...

The value at the top in most drafts and in this draft is defense and trenches. Skill players on offense don't translate as well from college to the pros let alone in this system. Find WR's who can play in the league and teach them the system. I'm fine with drafting a kid for development, but...

Speaking of jokes, Borges weighs in... No way Brady could be this altruistic. It's a conspiracy and Kraft will now use Brady to club discounts out of the rest of the baby seals on the roster. It's all cooked books...:blahblah: No way this has a happy ending. Ron has waited 14 years to be...

You can argue it all you want. I believe Brady's had his say and is done arguing. As am I. Kraft has no leverage left. He got more out of Brady than anyone in their right mind could have ever anticipated. They layed all their cards on the table in the last hand. Brady could still be tagged...

OK, I see what you're hung up on but nobody gets a fully guaranteed contract in this league at market rates up front. But the stars and particularly the QB's get half of their deals in guaranteed money, that is what seperates them from the mid level guys who may approach them in AAV. What you...

Consider yourself corrected. There is an apples and oranges difference between any salary, guaranteed or otherwise, and signing bonus. The only thing averaged over the life of a contract is signing bonus. Brady has $6.8M of that from his prior deal and recent restructure sitting atop the...

The hell he couldn't. He just got $27M guaranteed. Manning is 18 months older and has a couple of seasons more mileage on his tires not to mention he has nerve damage from his neck injury and he just played for $18M guaranteed in 2012 at 36 coming off a lost season and is about to be...

For what? He's not the future, that was settled today. In two years he's worth zilch and he's gone anyway. May never be worth more than he is today, whatever that may be. We don't even know if he's a competent backup. He's certainly not a guy with a similar skillset to Brady. And he's...

Re: Patriots and Welker discussing new contract You don't say...Wonder where they heard that... http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/10/1010908-wes-welker-8-million-per-year-5-years.html

There are only 3 numbers that matter in any NFL contract. The signing bonus, the guaranteed money and to a lesser extent the AAV. I don't know what it is that folks find so hard to grasp about NFL deals. They are never fully guaranteed (well, unless your name is Brady and you're taking half...

Absolutely. Mallett is a total unknown quantity. And he will be replacing a guy who was already on the Chief's cap for for more than that $7.5M of which will go away on his release. Reid is another WCO guy and Mallett would not be an ideal fit for his offense. Short, quick, accurate...

This is beyond OMG because Brady did exactly that. He took less than half market based on Manning and Brees' deals, neither of whom is any spring chicken. Kurt freakin' Warner signed a 2 year $23M deal with $19M guaranteed in 2009 before retiring in 2010. Brett Favre played out the string in...

Most of Smith's cap hit is salary which any team trading for him would be on the hook for. The difference of a million on the roster bonus is negligible. What they both have that Mallett doesn't is real NFL experience. And in Smith's case lots of it including as a winner in the last two...

Hopefully you're right but hopefully he's not a JAG. You can only afford to carry so many on a roster... What they need is a legit middle deep physical threat. Someone to compete with Lloyd for the #2WR/#3-4 target slot including in the red zone. Especially considering it is not a given...

Demps is nothing beyond potential and Vereen is living proof that you can't count on that. They aren't sure of him yet and it's possible they never will be. All we know about Demps so far is he's fast and fragile. Woody is the closest thing this unit has to a veteran presence and a player...

Trading Mallett won't be a slam dunk because at the moment he's not all the rage. It's the mobile QB with the decent arm you hope can pick up the nuances of reading defenses. And stay healthy. Although in the end he has the one thing many coaches can't get over, a cannon arm. He'd have to go...