It’s a bit more complicated than that. Read more

No. Had Wentz played out his rookie contract without an extension, the Eagles would have still had exclusive bargaining rights with him until March 2021, at which point he’d have become a free agent. Read more

Tampa Bay Spillionaires! I’m making that the lead tag on these posts. Read more

Oops. I fixed that. Thanks. Read more

Fair. Read more

Remember when the Pirates began a season with Tike Redman batting third in the lineup? Read more

Off the top of my head, I’ve always loved this Craggs evisceration of a baseball writer’s dumb Hall of Fame ballot. Read more

Fair point on Cousins. Read more

Yeah, Wilson has no incentive to do this—that’s part of the problem. And much like guaranteed contracts, structural changes to the CBA would be required for this to catch on, even if it likely only be for a handful of players. Cousins had no incentive to push for a fully guaranteed deal in the $90 million range,… Read more

They often have no incentive to do all kinds of stuff. That’s what makes leverage like Wilson’s so precious. Read more

Oh, pish-posh. Teams project 2-3 years into the future all the time with incentives, escalators, renegotiations/restructures, and option bonuses. They also have to spend 89 percent of the cap across four-year intervals, so none of this would chill free agency. Certainly not to the degree the rookie-wage scale—with its… Read more

Your basic argument advocates for another artificial barrier to a player being able to bargain for his true value. Read more

And this is a story that calls for a de-emphasis of bigger salaries in lieu of more player-friendly structures. Your point? Read more

I linked to three other stories/extended comments from players, including a pretty heavy-handed one from a member of the NFLPA’s executive committee. Read more

Yeah, where would I ever get the idea players might want to change the system? Read more

The actual unadjusted cap isn’t known until late February-early March of every given year. Don’t you already have to make assumptions based on that? And how would tying a salary to a percentage of those assumptions be much different? (Asking in all seriousness.) Read more

Nah. Read more

The accelerated cap hits primarily come from signing bonuses—they’re the accounting for cash already paid—so they likely wouldn’t factor into a cap percentage structure. Read more

Yeah, I think a deeper exploration of how NFL teams value QBs is in order. Read more

Not necessarily. Read more