Front loading is the new version of "poison pill", they mention it all the time on NFL Network, ESPN, etc, since the old form of it (inserting some random clause) was outlawed after the Minny/Seattle pissing match.
No, structuring it to front load 40% of the contract in the 1st year, making it more difficult for the Broncos to present an equally desirable deal to Jones if they so chose because of their cap situation would be. Don't want to clutter the thread anymore, it's not that important.
10 years ago me would have argued this poison pill definition thing for 3 pages. I've grown soft in my old age.
My guy. The dude was a FA. And the Broncos came out of the gate with: We poisoned the fuck out of them by, uh, I guess letting them spend their money like that?
A shareholder rights plan, colloquially known as a "poison pill", is a type of defensive tactic used by a corporation's board of directors against a takeover. In the field of mergers and acquisitions, shareholder rights plans were devised in the early 1980s as a way to prevent takeover bids by taking away a shareholder's right to negotiate a price for the sale of shares directly. Typically, such a plan gives shareholders the right to buy more shares at a discount if one shareholder buys a certain percentage or more of the company's shares.[1] The plan could be triggered, for instance, if any one shareholder buys 20% of the company's shares, at which point every shareholder (except the one who possesses 20%) will have the right to buy a new issue of shares at a discount. If all other shareholders are able to buy more shares at a discount, such purchases would dilute the bidder's interest, and the cost of the bid would rise substantially. Knowing that such a plan could be activated, the bidder could be discouraged from taking over the corporation without the board's approval, and would first negotiate with the board in order to revoke the plan.[2] The plan can be issued by the board of directors as an "option" or a "warrant" attached to existing shares, and only be revoked at the discretion of the board.
https://www.si.com/.amp/nfl/2022/05/20/nfl-poison-pill-contract-holmgren-hutchinson Or how we went from one of the most dominant left side of an OL ever assembled to a commemorative washed up Shaun Alexander.
When the Pats signed Wes Welker to an offer sheet when he was a RFA for Miami they included a clause that had some huge bonus if he ever played 4 games in Miami in a season or something like that. Since you have to match the exact offer sheet to keep the player, Miami couldn't reasonably match. Today is all unrestricted FAs and no offer sheet needs to be exactly matched. There are no poison pills today. And the NFL outlawed it in RFA contracts too I think.
All these teams making moves on the oline and the titans release 2 starters (3 if you count a healthy Lewan) and sign a guy that was a backup last year. Hell yea, we making moves.
Any time you have the opportunity to sign the 7th most accurate kicker from the previous season to a record contract, you have to take it.
Older me thanks you for your control. What a cunty bit of semantics to measure dicks over, but...TMB.
If the propensity to argue semantics about the most trivial things equated to dick size, most of TMB would be at least 10 inches. DBL and lyrtch would put Mandingo to shame.
That's a nice deal for Dallas, Wilson is a solid player. The Cowboys do a lot of smart things and then also do things like trade Amari for a 5th or allocate $20 million of cap space to the RB room or hire Mike McCarthy Fascinating franchise
I choose to believe all the smart things are done by Stephen Jones and all the dumb things are Jerry. That's the only thing that keeps me hanging on.
They very clearly have an organizational philosophy that's driven by Stephen and I think Will McClay to build through the draft and stay away from big deals for anything but their own guys and they do well enough in the draft that they're consistently good. But in the last decade they've never really committed to going all in and have had some head-scratching allocations of capital to certain positions. And then the coaching decisions are certainly questionable the entire history of the franchise post-Landry.
When Amari missed a handful of games during an important stretch because he didn't get vaccinated it pissed Jerry off. $21 Million a season and your 'personal decision' is to take the route of highest resistance to return to the field in case of infection? I don't blame Jerry one bit. Fuck Amari Cooper. Let Cleveland pay him to be a fucking imbecile.