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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 718986"><p>You're probably referring to cases like Steve Young getting paid $40 mil to play in the USFL, however that money was annuitized over 43 years. He never saw that money once the USFL went bust.</p><p></p><p>I don't believe that kind of "annuity" type deal is done anymore. Whether it's disincentivized in the CBA, or whether the players (and their agents!) want their money now, or whether interest rates have been so low for so long you could never offer the kind of interest to get a player to bite, I couldn't say. I am fairly confident, though, that if there is an annuity type deal still left out there the interest payments would be accounted for somewhere in the cap, and I don't see that showing up anywhere. Even a retired player collecting on such an annuity would show up somewhere in dead cap or the like.</p><p></p><p>Signing bonuses might get paid out in increments over the course of the league year, but I don't think it goes beyond that. </p><p></p><p>Nobody has ever come close to a $100 million signing bonus, by the way.</p><p></p><p>Whopping signing bonuses have a nasty way of backfiring, especially when you get into players in their 30's, a soon to be 34 year old QB or otherwise. If the player doesn't play up to the deal, you've got a very big very big double whammy...you don't have the player you thought you'd have along with a whopping dead cap number sitting there.</p><p></p><p>Ted Thompson avoids dead cap more than any other GM.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 718986"] You're probably referring to cases like Steve Young getting paid $40 mil to play in the USFL, however that money was annuitized over 43 years. He never saw that money once the USFL went bust. I don't believe that kind of "annuity" type deal is done anymore. Whether it's disincentivized in the CBA, or whether the players (and their agents!) want their money now, or whether interest rates have been so low for so long you could never offer the kind of interest to get a player to bite, I couldn't say. I am fairly confident, though, that if there is an annuity type deal still left out there the interest payments would be accounted for somewhere in the cap, and I don't see that showing up anywhere. Even a retired player collecting on such an annuity would show up somewhere in dead cap or the like. Signing bonuses might get paid out in increments over the course of the league year, but I don't think it goes beyond that. Nobody has ever come close to a $100 million signing bonus, by the way. Whopping signing bonuses have a nasty way of backfiring, especially when you get into players in their 30's, a soon to be 34 year old QB or otherwise. If the player doesn't play up to the deal, you've got a very big very big double whammy...you don't have the player you thought you'd have along with a whopping dead cap number sitting there. Ted Thompson avoids dead cap more than any other GM. [/QUOTE]
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