Post by Funkytown on May 30, 2019 20:00:20 GMT -6
It's about time this man has his own thread, right?
Agent's Take: The five best teams at managing the salary cap and player contracts by Joel Corry
Link: www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-the-five-best-teams-at-managing-the-salary-cap-and-player-contracts/
Agent's Take: The five best teams at managing the salary cap and player contracts by Joel Corry
Minnesota Vikings
Executive vice president of football operations Rob Brzezinski has been managing the salary cap and negotiating contracts so long in Minnesota that I dealt him as an agent on linebacker Ed McDaniel and Hall of Fame defensive tackle John Randle's contracts. With the exception of quarterback Kirk Cousins, who has a fully guaranteed three-year contract, Brzezinski structures veteran deals where only the first year is fully guaranteed at signing.
The guarantees in the second and/or third year convert from being guaranteed for injury to fully guaranteed on the third day of that particular league year (mid-March). Since the deals have relatively modest signing bonuses, Brzezinski can get out of the deals at almost any time without much cap pain. Brzezinski has stayed away from playing the contract restructure game in recent years until needing to do so with linebacker Eric Kendricks' contract a couple of weeks ago.
One contract where Brzezinski is getting tremendous value is Danielle Hunter's. He signed a five-year, $72 million extension with $40.007 million of guarantees last offseason. Hunter would have been facing a 2019 franchise tag for $17.128 million by merely duplicating his 2017 performance, which he easily exceeded in 2018. He tied for fourth in the NFL with 14.5 sacks. Since Hunter had a career year while playing out his contract, he would have been in a position to leverage the franchise tag into a long-term deal averaging in excess of $20 million per year like Frank Clark did. Clark signed a five-year, $104 million contract with $62.305 million in guarantees where $43.805 million was fully guaranteed at signing in connection with his pre-draft trade from the Seahawks to the Chiefs.
Hunter's deal, which contains $1 million in annual base salary escalators for sacks, is already outdated. To make matters worse, Hunter's contract runs through the 2023 season.
Executive vice president of football operations Rob Brzezinski has been managing the salary cap and negotiating contracts so long in Minnesota that I dealt him as an agent on linebacker Ed McDaniel and Hall of Fame defensive tackle John Randle's contracts. With the exception of quarterback Kirk Cousins, who has a fully guaranteed three-year contract, Brzezinski structures veteran deals where only the first year is fully guaranteed at signing.
The guarantees in the second and/or third year convert from being guaranteed for injury to fully guaranteed on the third day of that particular league year (mid-March). Since the deals have relatively modest signing bonuses, Brzezinski can get out of the deals at almost any time without much cap pain. Brzezinski has stayed away from playing the contract restructure game in recent years until needing to do so with linebacker Eric Kendricks' contract a couple of weeks ago.
One contract where Brzezinski is getting tremendous value is Danielle Hunter's. He signed a five-year, $72 million extension with $40.007 million of guarantees last offseason. Hunter would have been facing a 2019 franchise tag for $17.128 million by merely duplicating his 2017 performance, which he easily exceeded in 2018. He tied for fourth in the NFL with 14.5 sacks. Since Hunter had a career year while playing out his contract, he would have been in a position to leverage the franchise tag into a long-term deal averaging in excess of $20 million per year like Frank Clark did. Clark signed a five-year, $104 million contract with $62.305 million in guarantees where $43.805 million was fully guaranteed at signing in connection with his pre-draft trade from the Seahawks to the Chiefs.
Hunter's deal, which contains $1 million in annual base salary escalators for sacks, is already outdated. To make matters worse, Hunter's contract runs through the 2023 season.
... and neither is this Chris guy.