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Post by DDNYjets on May 20, 2015 17:43:05 GMT -5
You have to go by what is fully guaranteed at the time he signed the contract. To get the 45 he has to be on the roster. That is not fully guaranteed. The OP made me believe that the 45 was fully guaranteed and that is not the case. Basically this is a safe contract for the Dolphins. I would have let him play out his deal at which time both he and the HC would be extended or dumped. It is basically a two year contract with options for the team to extend him at what will be below market value. 21 or 25 is a lot easier to absorb than 45. It would have been financially foolish to let Tannehill play out his current deal. Tannehill was already under contract through the 2016 season because they exercised his 5th year option. He was scheduled to make 2.1M (4.1M cap number) in salary and roster bonus this season and 16.2M (16.2M cap number)in 2016. The Suh contract escalates to an approximate 29M cap number in 2016, so the Dolphins wanted to lower Tannehill's number in 2016. So instead the Dolphins pay Tannehill 21.5M in salary and bonus this year and 3.5M in salary next year, thus lowering Tannehill's cap number by more than 10M in 2016. The rest of the contract is all based on team options that kick in every March. The Dolphins spent more cash this year to create more cap space in 2016. I guess they are sold on Tannehill then. I am not. So I wouldnt have let the Suh deal force me into doing something with Tannehill to create space. Thats just me. Anyways, I am glad Tanny is in Miami. That is for sure. Also, you didnt answer the question I asked you in the other post. Would you have done this deal at $45 million guaranteed? That is the number all the initial reactions were based on.
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Post by sec.101row23 on May 20, 2015 18:24:15 GMT -5
It would have been financially foolish to let Tannehill play out his current deal. Tannehill was already under contract through the 2016 season because they exercised his 5th year option. He was scheduled to make 2.1M (4.1M cap number) in salary and roster bonus this season and 16.2M (16.2M cap number)in 2016. The Suh contract escalates to an approximate 29M cap number in 2016, so the Dolphins wanted to lower Tannehill's number in 2016. So instead the Dolphins pay Tannehill 21.5M in salary and bonus this year and 3.5M in salary next year, thus lowering Tannehill's cap number by more than 10M in 2016. The rest of the contract is all based on team options that kick in every March. The Dolphins spent more cash this year to create more cap space in 2016. I guess they are sold on Tannehill then. I am not. So I wouldnt have let the Suh deal force me into doing something with Tannehill to create space. Thats just me. Anyways, I am glad Tanny is in Miami. That is for sure. Also, you didnt answer the question I asked you in the other post. Would you have done this deal at $45 million guaranteed? That is the number all the initial reactions were based on. They don't have to be totally sold on Tannehill long term for this deal to make sense. Based on what Tannehill was scheduled to make and what their cap looks like in 2016, it really wasn't that hard of a decision. Letting him play out his current deal would be beyond foolish, not only would you have had to bid for him on the open market as an UFA but, you would also be negotiating with 2017 money instead of 2015 money. As as far as the 45M guaranteed question, what is the structure of the deal? The question is irrelevant unless you have how much for each year, what is the signing bonus and what years are totally guaranteed.
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Post by joepnyj1 on May 22, 2015 9:33:26 GMT -5
Wow! That is just bat shit insane money for a mediocre QB. Zero playoff appearances and chokes under pressure (see last years game against our terrible team). I understand the continuity thing but for that money I would pass.
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