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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sschind" data-source="post: 825228" data-attributes="member: 10247">There are a few problems with incentives or at least too many incentives.  First they have to be reasonable.  You can offer a guy an addition 100 million dollars in incentives and he isn't going to take the deal if it requires him to have 30 sacks or 175 receptions or something equally ridiculous.  Second you have to consider next years salary cap when offering incentives that may be reached.  Lets say you offer Clay 2 million if he has 12 sacks.  You offer Breeland 2 million if he has 10 interceptions and you offer Williams 2 million if he plays 90% of the snaps.  If all three hitythose incentives all of a sudden you have 6 million in additional cap space to account for next year when we are already looking pretty tight.Granted if they earn those incentives it most likely would have been worth the money but it could still cause problems. You may also say there is no way any of those guys will reach those incentives but that brings us back to the first point.  If there is no way they will reach them why would they even consider them when deciding to sign or not.  I mean if your offer is league minimum with another 5 million possible but on ridiculous incentives they are going to look at it as a league minimum contract.I may be wrong but I don't think many players look at incentives as much of a factor when deciding if the contract is good enough for them.  The guarantee or at least the salary has to be pretty close before and extra million or two that may be too hard to reach will tip the scales.  I think probably the most used incentives involve playing time.  If you have a guy who has missed 8 games in each of the last 2 years you might have an incentive for playing in say 14 games and he may go for that because I don't think anyone plans for injury.  Or you may have a backup who you offer an incentive for playing a certain number or percentage of snaps and he may take it because the guy in front of him has proven to be less than durable.  Nick Foles missed a 1 million dollar incentive last year by 4 snaps but the Eagles paid it to him anyway.  They wouldn't have had to but it was the right thing to do given what he had done for them.  When he signed that deal I doubt he was really expecting to see that money but Wentz had gotten hurt the year before so it was icing on the cake.</blockquote>

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