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<blockquote data-quote="Bobby Roberts" data-source="post: 11807" data-attributes="member: 260"><p>The signing bonus is an equalizer in some sense, but it hurts the whole system. The signing bonus could be considered the reason for some holdouts. Players get a ton of money up-front. After a couple years into the contract, they start to look at how much money equal or lesser players are making. So these players try to get a new deal and their justification is usually their regular season salary. Example: Walker had a fair signing bonus, but now he argues that he's only going to make less than $600k this season, so he's holding out for a new deal.</p><p></p><p>As for the backloaded deals, those usually work against players -- Wahle got lucky. It's usually an advantage for the team to backload a contract because most of the time the player will decline in skills or increase injury problems. So a team can give a huge contract that has about 1/3 of the money in the last couple years, which the player will never get.</p><p></p><p>I hate the situation of holding out and strong arming that goes on, but the teams are not at all innocent. Still, I don't believe that the situation will get any better with the new bargaining agreement, so apparently we need to learn to live with these problems. </p><p></p><p>Of course by not giving in to the holding out tactics, these problems decrease. Example: Philly Eagles with Duece Staley a couple years ago. He held out most of TC and finally came back at the end. Everyone thought that the Eagles were crazy, but they never backed down and Staley dropped from a top RB to an average player. The only player to try holding out since is TO, and we know this head case would do it no matter what.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bobby Roberts, post: 11807, member: 260"] The signing bonus is an equalizer in some sense, but it hurts the whole system. The signing bonus could be considered the reason for some holdouts. Players get a ton of money up-front. After a couple years into the contract, they start to look at how much money equal or lesser players are making. So these players try to get a new deal and their justification is usually their regular season salary. Example: Walker had a fair signing bonus, but now he argues that he's only going to make less than $600k this season, so he's holding out for a new deal. As for the backloaded deals, those usually work against players -- Wahle got lucky. It's usually an advantage for the team to backload a contract because most of the time the player will decline in skills or increase injury problems. So a team can give a huge contract that has about 1/3 of the money in the last couple years, which the player will never get. I hate the situation of holding out and strong arming that goes on, but the teams are not at all innocent. Still, I don't believe that the situation will get any better with the new bargaining agreement, so apparently we need to learn to live with these problems. Of course by not giving in to the holding out tactics, these problems decrease. Example: Philly Eagles with Duece Staley a couple years ago. He held out most of TC and finally came back at the end. Everyone thought that the Eagles were crazy, but they never backed down and Staley dropped from a top RB to an average player. The only player to try holding out since is TO, and we know this head case would do it no matter what. [/QUOTE]
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