Brunell Reworks Deal (FKA "Brunell Reluctant to Renegotiate Deal")

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

MR? Is that Pat and Mark's love child?

you have angered the tiki gods.


if MB gave up 500k this year, he'd also have to give up 650k next year to have his contract be legal within the confines of the 30% rule, as someone pointed out a few posts up. therefore its real money.

that means to cut his base saslary this year by 500k requires turning 1.15mill of base salary (500k in 2006 and 650k in 2007 due to the 30% rule) into a bonus that only prorates out 4 years (to 2009)... that's nearly 300k that still counts against the cap this year.

So a 500k cut this year and 650k cut next year combined only saves the skins 200k on the cap in 2006... talk about diminishing returns. If he nuked his entire base salary to vet min, thats till only about 600k savings this year and it virtually gaurantees he won't be on the roster in 2007.

of course, he could actually give up a lot of money in both 2006 AND 2007, but not many people are going to agree to a massive paycut, regardless of the situation.

[Twilbert07]

This all goes back to the decision to waaaaay overpay Brunell when we signed him. It's coming back to bite us in the ass.