LOL You just said he's playing for 1.5M, otherwise he can't be making 22 per for the other 4 years. It's either 1m this year plus 4 more at 22m or it's 5 years at 17.5. You've said a lot of different and conflicting things. You can't have it both ways. Holy shit! I'm done. I'm tired of trying to explain this to a fucking moron.
The moron is the guy you see staring you in the face in the bathroom mirror. Let me get my crayons and I will draw you a picture.
There are two things to consider.
a) What RW is actually going to make this year as in so far as he and the IRS are concerned. This figure is a base salary of 700,000 plus a 31 mill signing bonus. This will be the figure that goes onto his 1040 (minus expenses etc). For all the future years of his contract, he will make what ever his "base" salary for that year is.
b) What the Seahawks will do to "THIER" books in so much as how they spread things around in regards to cap space per year etc. RW (and his agent) could give a rats ass about these numbers. They are fictitious.
The problem is, you can't seem to understand how and when to separate the two, and keep using figures for one QB from the "a" description and then comparing them to another QB and using figures from the "B" section. That's complete Bullshit. And you don't get it.
If you want to compare contracts of one qb to another qb, you can only use one set of variables, and that is actual contract value. End of story, so drop it. RW signed a 4 year deal. The fact that the Seahawks were able to "cook" the books and spread it out in such a way that it was more cap friendly to them is of little consequence.
I have been on record throughout the thread as saying RW had enough "leverage" to force the Seahawks to re-negotiate/extend his contract this year, in the process get a significant signing bonus this year ( this prevents him from significant financial loss due to injury). I thought what the seahawks were originally offering to actually be a fair deal, but didn't know the specifics (guaranteed money etc). I said I didn't think he could do significantly better than that (he didn't) but I did say I thought he most certainly had enough leverage to force a similar deal get done this year, and not have to play out his rookie contract with no insurance against injury (which in this case is the signing bonus he got for the extension).
But, and this is something you just don't seem to grasp, if you are going to compare contracts with others (brees,romo, newton, luck, etc), the only thing of relevance is the contract itself, and its value. To that end, as of this moment, RW is the second highest paid QB in the NFL.
Now you can go ahead and average the 4 year deal out over 5 years, 7 years, whatever. But, that is not the way to compare one contract to another.
