Breaking news: Dawkins signs four year deal worth $60 mill

[GunnerBill]

28 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

You could look at it as a 1-year $8.166M deal followed by a 4-year $51.465M ($12.866M/year) deal.  Or as a 5-year $59.631M deal. ?

 

Only if you are looking purely through a cap lense. That is the cap impacts. It is not the contract. 

[2020 Our Year For Sure]

4 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Only if you are looking purely through a cap lense. That is the cap impacts. It is not the contract. 

As a Bills fan all I care about is the cap.

[GunnerBill]

2 minutes ago, 2020 Our Year For Sure said:

As a Bills fan all I care about is the cap.

 

And that is fine. But we can't get angry at outlets reporting the contract accurately. I think there is a point about how yearly averages are recorded, but Spotrac and OverTheCap can't describe a 4 year contract as a 5 year contract to keep Bills fans happy. 

[Doc]

1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:

Only if you are looking purely through a cap lense. That is the cap impacts. It is not the contract. 

 

It's not purely through a cap lens.  He got new money this year that is also being charged against this year's cap.  The only way this is a 4-year $59.631M deal is if the original final year of his rookie contract was left completely intact, which it wasn't.

[GunnerBill]

25 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

It's not purely through a cap lens.  He got new money this year that is also being charged against this year's cap.  The only way this is a 4-year $59.631M deal is if the original final year of his rookie contract was left completely intact, which it wasn't.

 

It was. It only wasn't in CAP terms.

[Doc]

8 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

It was. It only wasn't in CAP terms.

 

Actually looking at it further, it truly is a 5-year $59.631M deal.  The signing bonus he received was $8.6M and the amortization from 2021-2024 is $1.72M each year, which means it is amortized over 5 years, not 4.  The signing bonus for this year is $2,015,589, which is that $1.72M plus the remainder of his original rookie signing bonus amortization ($295,589). And they have him a $4.85M roster bonus this year in lieu of bumping up his base salary likely as a concession since that gets paid immediately whereas he had to wait until game week to get his salary.
 

[GunnerBill]

1 minute ago, Doc said:

 

Actually looking at it further, it truly is a 5-year $59.631M deal.  The signing bonus he received was $8.6M and the amortization from 2021-2024 is $1.72M each year, which means it is amortized over 5 years, not 4.  The signing bonus for this year is $2,015,589, which is that $1.72M plus the remainder of his original rookie signing bonus amortization ($295,589). And they have him a $4.85M roster bonus this year in lieu of bumping up his base salary likely as a concession since that gets paid immediately whereas he had to wait until game week to get his salary.
 

 

That is all CAP. None of that is contract. The new deal does affect the CAP this year. It doesn't affect the rookie CONTRACT.

[Doc]

The fact that the new signing bonus is being prorated over 5 years proves it's a 5-year deal.  All you're arguing is that since it was superimposed over the final year of his rookie contract (which was likely done for simplicity sake) that his rookie contract was unaffected.  They could just as easily have ripped-up his rookie contract and used all the exact same numbers, and put the $295,589 remaining in amortized rookie signing bonus somewhere else like the new signing bonus, base salary, or roster bonus this year.  But no need to go through all that trouble.

[GunnerBill]

I am done here. I don't know how many more times I can explain this. Where the Bills account for money is irrelevant to the contract. Amortisation is  not a term of the contract it is a cap management strategy.