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Originally Posted by skinsguy
My question is, do these players willingly know this is going to happen to them down the road, and figure that getting any money at all is better than getting no money (hard to believe), or do they have the mindset to believe that this is an incentive for them to play "up to the contract" in hopes it won't get renegiotated down the road? I think it's great cap strategy, but if I was a player, I'm not sure I'd go for this. I'd like to know exactly what is being said to the players and their agents that make them go for this type of deal. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining one bit, but I just find it interesting that players and their agents don't pick up on this stuff.
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I think the answer to your question is Yes they do know the chances of playing out their contract is very unlikely. Its an ego thing that they got such a big contract when in fact they will never see most of that money. So what we are doing is paying them what they are worth but they get the satisfation of hearing about the big contract they received. How we manage the cap has come to lite the past few years but I myself wish everyone was still guessing. Other teams will start to use these stratgies which will make them more competitive in the free agent market.