How exactly is this prevented?
When I lived in Australia I use to watch the NRL and one team got busted doing so. A championship team in fact called the Melbourne Storm.
I know that the 49ers were busted for it back in 1999-2000 which was a few year after the salary cap had been put in place. But the question is, if they were able to do it. Why couldn't another team.
What initially got me thinking about this was today I was listening to our local sports radio. They were talking about the most under paid QB in the entire league. Tom...... Brady....
"Brady restructured his contract with the Patriots on December 29, 2014, converting $24 million in full guarantees to $27 million in injury only guarantees. " PFF
According to SI
" the deal added an extension with “out years”—2015, 2016 and 2017—at salaries of $7, $8, and $9 million, respectively. As anyone with even a casual following of the business of football knows, these are startlingly low numbers for a quarterback of Brady’s caliber"
Well, the contract did get upgraded, but not an upgrade with true meaning for Brady. It added a relatively insignificant $1 million per year, bringing the salaries to $8 million this year, $9 and $10 million for 2016 and 2017, while invalidating a clause that had fully guaranteed those years (an injury-only guarantee replaced it).
This renegotiation at the end of last season represented yet another curious chapter to this contract. Perhaps the Patriots wanted to avoid funding a guarantee for their best player; perhaps it was an expedient way to get Brady another $3 million. In either case, why would the Patriots and Brady only nominally upgrade a massively undervalued contract, while devaluing the guarantee in the process? Why is Brady still astoundingly underpaid?
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2015/09/30/tom- ... salary-cap
What would stop a team like this from circumventing the cap? How could it be proven? Why would Tom Brady be playing for 8 Million this year, 9 Million next year, and 10 in 2017?
The rest of the money he is getting for his current three year extension is money from his old deal. Why would he be willing to take 10-15 million less a year than other QB's. Not only does he take a huge paycut. He then takes it from being guaranteed to non-guaranteed. I just don't get it. I could understand a small pay cut. But not 15 million a year. Thats 45 million he could get on just about any other team over the next 3 years.
I am by no means insulating this is the case. It is just a general question with an example
When I lived in Australia I use to watch the NRL and one team got busted doing so. A championship team in fact called the Melbourne Storm.
I know that the 49ers were busted for it back in 1999-2000 which was a few year after the salary cap had been put in place. But the question is, if they were able to do it. Why couldn't another team.
What initially got me thinking about this was today I was listening to our local sports radio. They were talking about the most under paid QB in the entire league. Tom...... Brady....
"Brady restructured his contract with the Patriots on December 29, 2014, converting $24 million in full guarantees to $27 million in injury only guarantees. " PFF
According to SI
" the deal added an extension with “out years”—2015, 2016 and 2017—at salaries of $7, $8, and $9 million, respectively. As anyone with even a casual following of the business of football knows, these are startlingly low numbers for a quarterback of Brady’s caliber"
Well, the contract did get upgraded, but not an upgrade with true meaning for Brady. It added a relatively insignificant $1 million per year, bringing the salaries to $8 million this year, $9 and $10 million for 2016 and 2017, while invalidating a clause that had fully guaranteed those years (an injury-only guarantee replaced it).
This renegotiation at the end of last season represented yet another curious chapter to this contract. Perhaps the Patriots wanted to avoid funding a guarantee for their best player; perhaps it was an expedient way to get Brady another $3 million. In either case, why would the Patriots and Brady only nominally upgrade a massively undervalued contract, while devaluing the guarantee in the process? Why is Brady still astoundingly underpaid?
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2015/09/30/tom- ... salary-cap
What would stop a team like this from circumventing the cap? How could it be proven? Why would Tom Brady be playing for 8 Million this year, 9 Million next year, and 10 in 2017?
The rest of the money he is getting for his current three year extension is money from his old deal. Why would he be willing to take 10-15 million less a year than other QB's. Not only does he take a huge paycut. He then takes it from being guaranteed to non-guaranteed. I just don't get it. I could understand a small pay cut. But not 15 million a year. Thats 45 million he could get on just about any other team over the next 3 years.
I am by no means insulating this is the case. It is just a general question with an example