Player Signing OFFICIAL - Gonzo signed to extension

[jimnance]

He being paid like he's the best in his position, now he needs to play that way.

That's what he's been doing since day 1.
Where have  you been?

 

[Grogan14]

Well at that point, unlike Bledsoe's 10 year contract, few QBs wanted to be locked in for 10 years at the same salary - and of course you needed that much time to get to $100 million given that top tier QBs were making $10 mill a season then.

Really funny in hindsight that as soon as Bledsoe signed that contract Brady was making his move - but again, like all the other players, you see 4 year contracts - not 10 years like Bledsoe, which was a huge outlier in length and value at the time.

It took almost 25 years to get a second 100M contract and not one of those contract extensions was for the GOAT?

Whoever said Kraft is cheap can apologize now

 

[slash83]

 

[Huckleberry1]

He got spot on what most PF posters were expecting. Slightly more than Witherspoon.

There's no reason they shouldn't have sealed this deal long ago - it will be interesting to hear later which side might have been holding this up because a contract like that isn't a shocker to anyone.

The reason it took so long was that instead of Witherspoon's guarantee by a million or so, which was how the prior deals had been made, Seattle gave him 9 million more in guaranteed $$$. The Patriots argument was that the Witherspoon contract is an outlier, which it is, and ended up splitting the difference.

I wanted Gonzalez signed, and I wanted them to pay him the most, but the Patriots had a valid argument that the Witherspoon deal wasn't representative of the overall CB market as a whole. That's why it went down to the wire.

It's the same in any sport. If owners are paying the best at a position consistent with the other best players at that position, one nutbag owner throwing absurd money at one player doesn't necessarily reset the market at that position.