You've got a good point. And the Bears have reportedly been okay with $16mil/yr. The Woods deal averages 17mil/yr. Arob is a younger player with 1 less year in the NFL, and the better player of the two. ARob has been a Pro Bowl player and Woods never made it. I would rather have AR over Woods. JMO.
I think you have got to top Woods`deal. I could see a 17.5M AAV based on what I had proposed earlier. Instead of 5/90M it now becomes 5/87.5M with a cool 48M guaranteed (Which is 54% of the total amount). So now it becomes:
5 year 87.5M with 48M guaranteed. 25M signing bonus (5 x 5M CAP hit).
Year 1 (2021): 2M salary, 1M roster bonus - 7M CAP hit Year 2 (2022): 5M salary, 2M roster bonus, 1M workout bonus - 13M CAP hit Year 3 (2023): 9M salary, 1M roster bonus, 15M CAP hit Years 4 & 5 (2024/25): Only 5M CAP hits.
Overall I think the signing bonus will be a bit lower but guaranteed yearly salary and yearly bonuses will be higher and the overall guarantee will be in the 40-45M range.
+1
My gut feeling is that Pace gets ARob signed. If they can't bridge the gap (with both sides seemingly close on a deal) then that is going to be a blow to the offense. Personally I keep thinking that you can't let a guy walk who is this young and just entering his prime years here. If ARob was 31 years old or something like that, then I'd better be able to accept losing him and gambling on our younger players stepping up. But that is not the case here... AR is a young guy who has a rock-solid future based upon his proven abilities on the Chicago Bears team.
I think you have got to top Woods`deal. I could see a 17.5M AAV based on what I had proposed earlier. Instead of 5/90M it now becomes 5/87.5M with a cool 48M guaranteed (Which is 54% of the total amount). So now it becomes:
5 year 87.5M with 48M guaranteed. 25M signing bonus (5 x 5M CAP hit).
Year 1 (2021): 2M salary, 1M roster bonus - 7M CAP hit Year 2 (2022): 5M salary, 2M roster bonus, 1M workout bonus - 13M CAP hit Year 3 (2023): 9M salary, 1M roster bonus, 15M CAP hit Years 4 & 5 (2024/25): Only 5M CAP hits.
Overall I think the signing bonus will be a bit lower but guaranteed yearly salary and yearly bonuses will be higher and the overall guarantee will be in the 40-45M range.
+1
My gut feeling is that Pace gets ARob signed. If they can't bridge the gap (with both sides seemingly close on a deal) then that is going to be a blow to the offense. Personally I keep thinking that you can't let a guy walk who is this young and just entering his prime years here. If ARob was 31 years old or something like that, then I'd better be able to accept losing him and gambling on our younger players stepping up. But that is not the case here... AR is a young guy who has a rock-solid future based upon his proven abilities on the Chicago Bears team.
Not only that JABF... There is a good chance we will have no QBs signed next year, none, so we better have some quality rec corps, because a good QB will like to know it
I think you have got to top Woods`deal. I could see a 17.5M AAV based on what I had proposed earlier. Instead of 5/90M it now becomes 5/87.5M with a cool 48M guaranteed (Which is 54% of the total amount). So now it becomes:
5 year 87.5M with 48M guaranteed. 25M signing bonus (5 x 5M CAP hit).
Year 1 (2021): 2M salary, 1M roster bonus - 7M CAP hit Year 2 (2022): 5M salary, 2M roster bonus, 1M workout bonus - 13M CAP hit Year 3 (2023): 9M salary, 1M roster bonus, 15M CAP hit Years 4 & 5 (2024/25): Only 5M CAP hits.
Overall I think the signing bonus will be a bit lower but guaranteed yearly salary and yearly bonuses will be higher and the overall guarantee will be in the 40-45M range.
+1
My gut feeling is that Pace gets ARob signed. If they can't bridge the gap (with both sides seemingly close on a deal) then that is going to be a blow to the offense. Personally I keep thinking that you can't let a guy walk who is this young and just entering his prime years here. If ARob was 31 years old or something like that, then I'd better be able to accept losing him and gambling on our younger players stepping up. But that is not the case here... AR is a young guy who has a rock-solid future based upon his proven abilities on the Chicago Bears team.
Exactly, in that 5 year scenario his guaranteed money runs out in 2023 when he will be just 30!!
My gut feeling is that Pace gets ARob signed. If they can't bridge the gap (with both sides seemingly close on a deal) then that is going to be a blow to the offense. Personally I keep thinking that you can't let a guy walk who is this young and just entering his prime years here. If ARob was 31 years old or something like that, then I'd better be able to accept losing him and gambling on our younger players stepping up. But that is not the case here... AR is a young guy who has a rock-solid future based upon his proven abilities on the Chicago Bears team.
Not only that JABF... There is a good chance we will have no QBs signed next year, none, so we better have some quality rec corps, because a good QB will like to know it
OK, just spitballing Alex but you could always let Trubisky walk in spite of his season and keep Foles with another restructure. A lot of ways this can go.
Not only that JABF... There is a good chance we will have no QBs signed next year, none, so we better have some quality rec corps, because a good QB will like to know it
OK, just spitballing Alex but you could always let Trubisky walk in spite of his season and keep Foles with another restructure. A lot of ways this can go.
Yes, but if im not mistaken, at the time, there was talk that Foles had an opt-out option after this season. And he might as well take it, especially if not a starter here.
JuJu Smith-Schuster is currently making $1.3M on his rookie deal and is poised to hit free agency in 2021.
That $4M is the whole 4 year contract! He was a late 2nd round selection, which is why he hasn't made very much.
My bad on JuJu. Thought he’d already been extended.
Point is, there’s quite a few highly paid WRs and they aren’t all on teams with rookie contract QBs.
Our rivals directly to the north have one of the highest paid QBs (Rodgers) and a very highly paid WR (Davante Adams).
Those teams all had their high paid QB before the high paid WR. That's the point. It's hard to predict who the high paid QB will be and if your budget is limited for the QB, you may miss out.
Post by malagabears on Sept 20, 2020 9:09:07 GMT -6
Take it FWIW. LaCanfora reporting this will take longer and Bears disagree on his market value which we know is the core issue. He says Bears might even be happy to let the season play out and then apply the FT on ARob next season.