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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 1094480" data-attributes="member: 7261">Most definitely it boils down to non-guarantees and such.  However, when you do sign a player like JSN to THAT big of a deal, you are either planning on cutting/trading him or trying to renegotiate a new deal with him.  So while I get your point, as we have seen with some of our top players, huge contracts can be costly to get out of early and costly to extend.So in the case of JSN, his contract may appear to only "cost" the Seahawks $25M/season for 4 years, due to the cap hits in those 4 years, it is a guaranteed $125M, so getting out of it after 4 years, adds another$6.25M/year to that $25M number, via a dead cap hit of $32M.I know that math doesn't look right, but his actual cap hits for the first 4 years would be $95,439,325M.I guess what I am trying to say is this.   When you dole out a huge contract, with huge guarantees, getting out of said contract is hugely costly.  Whereas throwing the kind of money Doubs got at him, is substantially less costly for the Patriots on the front and back end.  I just don't see Watson as that kind of WR that I want to tie that kind of future cap to.</blockquote>

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