(03-20-2019, 01:55 PM)JackCity Wrote:

(03-20-2019, 12:26 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: He could do what you mention above for the reasons you mention and could have done it under a completely different type of deal.  He’s taking on some risk here with a 1 year deal that he probably didn’t have to take on if he didn’t want to.

I’m not telling you what I think is in his mind, but he did hang us with the bill and decided to shoulder additional risk in the process.  At face value, his new deal stuck it to the Jags.  No need to speculate on his thinking or whether he was taking any level of personal satisfaction in it which is what I think you’re really arguing against.

What scenario was there that him signing with a new team wouldn't have "stuck us" considering nobody was gonna pay anything with the offset. If Bortles took a 2 year deal with a 1 million cap hit year 2 and 4 million year 2 would that have impacted our credit for next year at all?

You can front load contracts or spread them relatively evenly over the life of the contract.  You can't back load them the way you've illustrated above.  Not only that but your example offers less than $6.5 million so it's not something to hold up as an alternative.

Ultimately, if you agree he could have negotiated a multi year deal then we can continue the back and forth here.  If you think he couldn't have gotten a 2 year deal or more with more than $6.5 million in guarantees then that's where our opinions of the situation separate and debating positions that stem from that point is, well, pointless. If you don't think he could've gotten a multi year deal had he wanted one, I can see why you'd reach the conlusion you've reached.

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