today.
Sorry.
I got a couple of other things I got to do trying to get
everything done trying to go 545 this week as well though in
the final week of our five-week Hiatus. Is I filibuster my way
through locating. The tweet that poses today's questions
and here it is.
Mild mild Advanced review
not detailed, but I'm not going into this cold. All right,
let's see. Corey jaw squids. Can NFL teams? Allow players to
sign a Bobby Bonilla deal. How would this affect salary cap
isn't counted against the cap, prorated?
And then the 1 million a year is paid until complete is the 1
million a year against the cap. Every year with a player ever
do this time value of money? Yeah,
plenty of times payments. Are defer signing bonus payment. 10
million dollar signing bonus. It's some of it now. Get some
of it next year.
Get some of the following year.
This barboni a deal was kind of a unique thing because he
couldn't have like five point nine upfront and decided to
take the 1 million dollar, annuity payment, every year
through 2035. I think,
because the Mets,
Decided, we'll just put that 5.9 million
in investment
and it'll pay
the money.
To Bobby Bonilla. So six of one half-dozen the other,
the problem is they put their money, Bernie Madoff. So, oops,
now,
I don't think we'll ever see something quite so creative as
it relates to NFL contracts,
but deferred money happens all the time
and
it hits the cap when it's earned. When it's paid is
a different issue altogether. But if you get, if you get a 10
million dollar signing bonus and you're not going to get all
of it for two or three years.
It gets put on the books, is a 10 million dollar signing bonus
earned the day. You signed your contract and gets processed
accordingly on a four-year deal, it gets split up two and
a half million a year
for each of the four years. So
yes, I guess something like that. Could happen. But I
it's such a rare thing.
I don't see it happening in any sport ever
and I don't see any baseball team
ever rolling the dice on something like that again.
PFT p.m. policy, should the traditional formula for
long-term deals for franchise tag players change, especially
with the salary cap set to explode and positions like
safety and tight end, where it doesn't truly
represent the market and
PFT p.m. policy paying attention to things. We've said
in the past, the basic formula is you take the franchise tag
players salary. Do this year,
you take a salary do next year and you put it together and you
fully guarantee it. And that's how you take that franchise tag
and turn it into a long-term deal. With years, three, four
and five on the back end,
click things change, should things change. You could argue
that a bunch of factors come into play here. The DeShaun
Watson contract may be a factor. The
the idea that players may be willing to go year to year
that, you know, it's some positions, especially
quarterback. Like
is there a really
a significant risk
that you're not going to want me next year,
if we've gotten to the point
where I've played for you for four or five years,
it's clear that
That I'm getting the job done.
Is it really going to be another Kirk Cousins situation?
Where
a team wouldn't want to sign a guy and a guy would fall off?
I mean, cousins didn't fall off, he rolled the Dyson and he one
tag for two years
and then Washington let him walk.
I think that as more players go year to year,
I think that could force
one contracted time and that's how it happens.
One deal of the time
is a new structure, a new term, a new high Watermark, a new way
of doing things. And then other players use that with other
teams or with the same team to try to follow suit just like
what happened with the Steelers last year? The Steelers
one of the only three teams as of a year ago, Bengals. Packers
Steelers. That refused to fully guarantee money beyond
the first year. A veteran non quarterback contract. Well,
they tore that practice up with TJ W and now they did it again
with make a Fitzpatrick and now it's gone. That's how it
happens. One deal of the time. So to answer the question,
it all is something that occur
or could occur one deal at a time. So yeah, I mean, we
always have to be looking for change circumstances and
the Watson contract changes circumstances, the cap changes
circumstances the way
that the
franchise tag is calculated and how it's like Lagging behind
the market value that changes circumstances to
and it
it comes down to a good Agent. Persuading a team to do things
differently.
Just like the Texans were persuaded
to fully guarantee
three years on a four-year, second round
draft picks contract.
That becomes
the Domino that causes more contracts to follow suit,
that's how it happens.
All right.
One more from PFD p.m. policy,
if the Browns gave DeShaun Watson fully guaranteed, 230
million dollar contract and traded boatload of picks. How
much would he or another true franchise quarterback? Get on
the open market. And, you know, that's a great point because
look
the Browns, gave Watson, this tremendous deal and
gave up a bunch of draft picks to get him. It wasn't just
a shawl Watson's available and he goes to the highest bidder.
Now, it's simulated simulated open market because they
brought four teams to the
People and they cast the Browns, aside, and the Browns
decided, we had to get this guy. So we got to get his
attention,
how about five years? 230 million fully guaranteed.
But I think that if a truly
Unrestricted quarterback,
who is a true franchise down?
I mean, top of the stand
top 5, hey, he's a top five, he's a top five, you can have ten
top five, you've tried to top 10. Hey he's top 10, he's top
10. You can have 20 true top five
true top five
and I'm not going to name names because I'm gonna leave someone
out. True top 5 Talent becomes an unrestricted free agent,
which whatever happened it would, it would be like in
today's market, probably 55 million a year, maybe 60
million a year.
true franchise quarterback
year in and year out who's proven it time and again
Mahomes if all of a sudden he's available on the open market,
And and the term that I've been advocating for years,
percentage of the salary cap.
So you're protected against your deal becoming obsolete by
the cap, going up and up and up. You have a minimum salary.
So you're protected against the cap Point down,
but then you have a kicker that is tied to a percentage of
the cap that is permitted under the CBA of the teams have refused
to do a little bit. Collusion going on little bit, little bit
of collusion
not that anybody's going to do anything about it but
just like the brown.
Broke ranks with five years fully guaranteed. Somebody else
would have to break ranks
for a percentage of the cabinet would take the kind of guy
like the equivalent of Reggie White. As a quarterback,
remember Reggie White back in 93, for those of you who are
alive, then
the first highly pursued, free agent. He was able to duck
the franchise tag in Philadelphia because he was one of the named
plaintiffs in the lawsuit that sparked the new system. So he
goes to Market all these teams want him.
You got a quarterback?
Who's in that kind of demand.
Yeah, it would be a ridiculous amount of money
and it would all be guaranteed
and
I'd like to think that would be a percentage of the salary cap
and play as well to protect against the cap. Going up in
that contract, being stale.
Neil watch the PFT with the news that Leonard fournette,
showed up to Camp, weighing 30 pounds over his listed way. Do
you know of any contract Provisions that would avoid any
of these guarantees? Tom Coughlin used to write
weigh-ins into contracts. To avoid this situation. Are those
still common?
It can be negotiated
and I can't remember who it was. I think was Trent Brown,
he's got specific weight incentives, and clauses and
bonuses in his contract with the Patriots, all aimed at
keeping him in an ideal range and, and that can be negotiated
into a contract and you can be fine.
For being over whatever. Wait, you're supposed to be.
I don't know. That avoids, any guarantees. It all comes down
to how the contract is written, and I'm not aware of anything
with fernet. He's just at risk of,
you know, losing his starting job and or being cut if he
doesn't get himself in shape, and I know people say that's
what training camp is for.
Guys, stay in shape all year round.
Now, this isn't like the 70s
where
guy go goes and works another job in the offseason and
doesn't really exercise and is smoking, cigarettes and eating
bacon and pork rinds. And,
you know,
needs to get in shape when they had six preseason games and 14
regular season games
guys. Needed that
Nowadays guys are in shape all the time. So it is a little
jarring to see the report that Leonard fournette was 260 and
he's going to have to
literally work his ass off. Literally,
when training camp opens to get himself in shape. Now, people
said that there are some Instagram evidence that he's
already doing that on his own. And,
you know, look at hey,
hey,
It's a never-ending fight for anybody who ever weighed more
than they should, and I resemble that remark. Trust me.
It is a
constant fight to stay
in an ideal weight range. And sometimes for
one or more reasons
you fall off the horse.
If food only didn't taste so damn good, it would be a hell
of a lot. He's
all right.
This is an interesting question. I got to be careful
what I say here and FL leads.
Have you ever been approached to work for the NFL or an NFL
team,
if you were offered a GM position for that
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? Would you give it a go?
Clearly, you can handle criticism associated with job.
The NFL would would never offer me a job. The league office
would never ever some would say maybe they should, you
know, I'm the guy you by not the guy you kill. Maybe that
would be the argument there, there was at one point five
years or so ago, just kind of Loose conversation.
But I'm just, I'm not
interested in giving up what I have. I'm not interested in
signing on to
this reality and it would have been a GM job, but I'm not
interested in signing on to a reality where
any given year, could be your last year and then you get
thrown back into the blender and you got to go find another
job or you don't?
What I have now is immune to wins and losses. What I have
now will last as long as I'm alive and Door want to keep
doing it. So I'm not giving up
what I have now ever and as much as I would love
to win a Super Bowl ring
in some capacity
with any team in position to win one,
I'd rather do what I'm doing now
and just buy a Super Bowl ring,
one of these days
on eBay or wherever
Niall W PF. T, do you ever think we'll see a player sit
out the entire year to avoid playing on the franchise tag
like Lebanon. L, did do you think it will be players who
dress for the minimum games is set by the Joey Galloway
prescient look I think we could see Jesse Bates this year show
up for the minimum number of games.
That's his only real path
if he says he doesn't intend to play Under the tag
and the lady on bail thing, a lot of people like to drag
Le'Veon Bell for what he did. A lot of people took some
perverse lie in the fact that he sat out all year
and always career didn't work out after that. Well, you know
what? The guarantees that he got from the Jets after sitting
out the fool? Year.
I remember doing the math at the time, he signed that
contract and comparing it, to what he gave up, and what he
would have gotten, if he played that year and we don't know
what he would have gotten. If he had played a whole year
under his second
tag with the Steelers, maybe he wouldn't have gotten very much.
Maybe people would have realized based on that second
franchise tag year that he wasn't worth the contract. The
Jets gave him,
but
I think a quarterback could do it
because a quarterback could take confidence in the fact
that if I see
Out of full year.
I'm still going to be in demand as evidenced by DeShaun Watson
sitting out a full year for different reasons entirely,
but still getting
five years 230 million fully guaranteed. So the way it works
is
that second tag is the time to do it.
You sit out the whole year
and then the next year, it counts as third tag,
even if you didn't play
Under the second tag
and third tag is the one that teams just won't apply and then
you become a free agent. So, so someone could do that at some
points, it out, the entirety of the second year of
the franchise tag,
I think a quarterback would be the one
to consider doing it,
all right? I should probably wrap this up. We have a request
from will shanem of for a preseason.
Pfft Chris Simms unbuttoned joint, megapix podcast where we
talk about favorite pics or interesting bets for the season
wind totals division. Odds player props etcetera, good
primer for the season I have
Along to the powers that be
and unless they are just humoring me.
That may be something that we automatically do. So great
suggestion.
Paul Silva. Let's wrap on this one.
When looking at the failure of the Kirk Cousins, Mike Zimmer
relationship. People always seem to blame Zimmer. Why
doesn't Kirk get any of the blame? He has two failed. Head
coaching relationships, Mike, Zimmer
and Jay Gruden,
Kirk gets plenty of blame.
I've blamed in plenty of the last four years,
Kirk is a guy who can get it done when everything is set up
for him, just perfectly and he adversity during a play
and he can't turn it into chicken salad. The best
quarterbacks in today's NFL are the ones who vote for Tom,
Brady
can take that play. That goes to hell and on-the-fly craft
a second play.
That
turns a bad situation into a good one. Now what Brady does
and this is what I think cousins needs to Aspire to do
I think this is cousin ceiling.
The play that's called.
Get to the point where you make your reads pre-snap and you
know where the open guy is going to be and you get
the ball to him before the walls close in. But if the walls
close in, you find a way to bail out
Duck and Cover Live to play another day, that's what Brady
has done
in his 40s to avoid injury. You don't want to get hit by, guys,
literally half his age and injured, the more he gets hit.
The more, you're going to
get injured, the more
likely he's going to be done.
That's what cousins needs to do.
The Brady approach, not the moms approach
where oh crap!
Everything's falling apart. I'm going to run around until
somebody's wide open and it's just that inherent Artistry.
Josh Allen fits into that category, Aaron Rodgers can
make that happen.
Well, cousins needs to do
and this is why he's been criticized.
When the walls close in, he goes deer in the headlights.
He just does, he doesn't know what to do.
Maybe with Kevin O'Connell maybe with a better head coach
and what he's had the past four years in Minnesota because
the guy's not a defensive coach, it was someone who's more
interested in propping him up instead of tearing him down.
You know, he's a got that Parcells approach
and I think the Jimmie Johnson approach is much better. The
Jimmie Johnson approach is
you need to figure out
each guy. What makes each guy tick and what is each guy going
to react to
some guys? React better
too. Negative
reinforcement. Some guys, only react well to positive
reinforcement. Bill Parcells, just chewed out everyone.
That cantankerous. Curmudgeonly old-school head coach that
doesn't work anymore. I'm not sure it ever did doesn't work
anymore
and Kirk Cousins, may not be a guy who gets to his maximum
level, getting his ass chewed all the time by Mike Zimmer
so maybe Kevin O'Connell comes in tries to prop him up, put
him in situations where the walls are closing in and try to
coax him to the point where in those occasions, where things
aren't working, he just finds a way to get rid of the ball,
and not throw it into the hands of an opposing player, find
a way to get rid of the ball and the play move on to the next
one and Trust.
Next one. Well work. Hopefully the next one of these
will work better than this one. Although
this
was it that bad. I don't know. I dunno reflection. I just move
on to the next thin and that's what I'm going to do today.
Got a lot to do today.
Got to wrap this up. I'm going to move on to my next thing.
Here's all the best to you as you move on to your next thing.
And the next big thing for PFT is the return of PFT live
Monday, July 25, until then. I'm going to do my best this
week. I'm two for two.
Can we get two, three, four, three,
four, four, four, five, four, five.
We'll find out Wednesday, whether I keep the streak
alive, have a great day. Thanks, as always for some of
your time. See you real soon.