Patscap breaks down Danny Amendola's 2017 $4.75M paycut

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Patscap breaks down Danny Amendola's 2017 $4.75M paycut

Miguel Benzan

Breaking down Danny Amendola's 2017 paycut.

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[dafoe2016]

He will regret this when his playing days are over. Championships are awesome but they wont put your kids through college.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

No. Looking back I have zero regrets leaving $ on the table. So many more things are more important

 

[Urgent]

Why do the Patriots have so much financial flexibility this season - that they could sign a top-of-the-market free agent to a Super Bowl roster, bring in a bunch of young veterans in exchange for cheap draft picks, and still sit on plenty of available cap space?
They have essentially no players who are overpaid and no significant dead cap space.

You can point to most rosters and see outlying contracts consuming a lot of cap space, or the correlating dead cap money from releasing those players. In the past, you could argue that the Wilfork contract, the Mayo contract, or other (high-performing) veterans that signed market-based deals but restructured over the years had contracts that exceeded their current value.

Mayo was on the books for $4.4mm in 2016 in dead money.
Revis, Mankins, and Arrington consumed about $12.5mm in dead money in 2015.
And so forth.

It's hard to point to a contract currently that looks like an overpay. Solder or McCourty at $11mm each? Not bargains, but not really out of market for core players.

I think once you get to this point, you aren't juggling contracts, pushing money out from the current year to the future, and then facing the same problem again the next season.

Maybe it starts with Brady's willingness to play well below top of market, and the impact it has on some other core players. Maybe it's partly focusing on lots of B+ players - Cannon, Guy, McClellin, Harmon, Branch. Maybe it's a lot of veterans who want to play for a winner - Edelman, Ninkovich, Amendola, Chung - at deals below market.

 

[supafly]

He will regret this when his playing days are over. Championships are awesome but they wont put your kids through college.

Are you under the impression that WR4 Amendola and his 20 something catches would've been in line for a raise and a bigger role on another team? Not so sure about that, myself. Hell, he already got a raise from what he made last year, which certainly wasn't expected by many.

In the bigger picture, staying here may not only be the difference between playing in meaningful games and even potentially seeing another SB, but also between a possible broadcast job/book/future endorsement deal(s), and ending up as the next Austin Collie.

 

[supafly]

Also, by the time the upcoming season is completed, Amendola will have made almost 21m dollars over the lifetime of his career. I'm guessing that if he keeps it up, he may even be able to afford the good lunchmeat at the deli counter.

Danny Amendola

 

[farn]

He will regret this when his playing days are over. Championships are awesome but they wont put your kids through college.

It's the 2M per year that will pay for tuitions. He'll be ok, we can cancel that bottle drive you had planned for fundraising to help DA.

 

[slam]

He's already made enough money to put Antonio Cromartie's kids through college.