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Originally Posted by Perfect Stu
You really think McNabb was worth the $100million+ contract? Honestly, he's not even the best playmaker on offense IMO. His salary will hurt the team in the long run, I think...these past couple years were their best chances to win it all, I see it going slightly downhill from here.
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No it won't.
Welcome to the wacky world of ****ed up NFL salaries.
I don't know McNabb's numbers, and I'm a lazy, lazy man, so I'm not going to look them up, but all of these $100 million deals are BS.
Here's an example, (I'm making these numbers up, but this is basicly how it works) in baseball, once you sign your deal, that's it, that's what it's worth, unless you renegotiate you get all of it. To give you an idea of how static the situation is, last season, the highest paid player on the Orioles was Albert Belle. In the NFL, the ONLY guaranteed money is the signing bonus money. So say player X signs for 120 million over 10 years. Chances are, he gets 10 million in signing bonus spread out over those ten years, then he makes 5 million a year the first 5 years, the last two years are probably worth 20-25 million each, and the rest is spread out over years 6-7-8. He'll make the signing bonus, and the first five years, but he'll probably never see year 6, and he'll never ever see year 9. After 5 years he'll either be cut or his deal will be renegotiated. The only people who care about those big numbers are the agents because they can base their commissions off of them and they can say that "I got player X this $120 Million deal."