(03-16-2021, 03:32 PM)Upper Wrote:

(03-16-2021, 03:18 PM)Mikey Wrote: if you don't plan on them being here for the duration of the contract, it's fine so long as that's not guaranteed salary. It's also a recipe for disaster if any of these guys do play well and 3 years from now are making say $4M that year when everyone around their ability is pulling in 12....just asking for a holdout then.

But that's exactly what giving them higher signing bonus tiny year 1 salaries does. It spreads the cap hit out over the whole duration of the contract whether we cut them or not.

That's what I am saying. I also should admit I imagined the front/backloading as using equal signing bonus for each. if the plan is to "rent" a player for two seasons, why would you front-load the deal? Give them a nice signing bonus and minimal salary, and in two years you can take a minor hit and move on before they cost a ton more. Or, if they are playing lights out, let them play the high-salary years on the deal. The other option (assuming the signing bonus is the same for each deal) is to add salary this year and or next, and by year three the player is either cut for the same dead money hit, or requires an extension because they won't want to play for peanuts on the remainder of the deal.

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