(03-16-2018, 05:40 PM)Predator Wrote:

(03-16-2018, 05:06 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: Fair point, but all it would take is two teams or more to be interested in his services for the “let’s stick it to the Jags” strategy to likely go out the window.  You make me question whether the offset is salary only and not just total guaranteed amount in a new deal, else why would anyone ever use offset language?  The Jags front office would have thought of all this, right?  So why would the Jags bother putting the language in the deal?


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If two teams were competing for him, all they would need to do is up his signing bonus. I'm sure Bortles would rather have the money up front anyway and wouldn't be concerned about the salary. It would have nothing to do with wanting to "stick it to the jags" but rater save almost 6 mil on their salary cap which would be a benefit to their organization.

From some further reading, it sounds like if another team takes over Bortles contract (ie trade or picked up off waiver), they become responsible for the 6.7 mil. So it sounds like we would recoup the 6.7 mil if someone were to take over Bortles contract, but we would most likely eat about 5.7 mil if we were to allow him to become a FA before the second season.