(02-28-2018, 08:32 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(02-28-2018, 08:24 PM)The_Franchise_QB Wrote: Is the signing bonus not pro-rated?

It is, but there's nothing the team can do about it except recognize all remaining $10 million in 2019 or $5 million of it in 2019 and the last $5 million in 2020.  If they feel it's time to move on, they're not going to keep him and pay him his $16 million base salary in 2019 just to move that $5 million signing bonus out to the last year of the deal.  If Bortles is cut or traded, that dead cap number you see for 2019 would drop by the $6.5 million thanks to the offset in his contract and be reduced to $10 million to reflect just the remaining signing bonus if realized all that year.  $10 million sounds like a big hit but it really isn't when it's either $10 million in 2019 or $5 and $5 as I mentioned above.  This deal isn't designed to stop them from moving on from Blake after this season if they want which for a moment I thought it was.

Right, which is why I mentioned in an earlier post that if cut after this season his dead is 10-16.5M. IF he bombs, who would pay him more than 6.5M? I used the example of Foles, he avg'd 5.5M. IF he plays decent then yes I can see someone paying him more. Still though 10M in dead $ IMO is a lot, when if the actual plan is to move on after the season just give him 19M option this season and move on. They opened room this season for Arob and a possible FA OG, but it'll hurt next season.

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