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Lawyers and the womenfolk who simply marry men who possess singular skills that pay like few other professions. Hopefully it never comes up. Ditto with nobody's favorite - Mrs. Mahomes - and the rest potentially cashing totally unearned 9-figure checks.
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Seriously. He'd better be 250 million % sure, because I think legally she's now responsible for 50% of all subsequent contracts and endorsements he gets for as long as they're married, as though he couldn't and wouldn't have made any of it without her.
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Guess the positions of the top 9 picks
Sperm Edwards replied to TuscanyTile2's topic in NY Jets Forum
1. Missionary 2. Doggystyle 3. Cowgirl 4. Lap dance/love seat/hot seat 5. Spooning 6. Hovering butterfly 7. 69 8. Wheelbarrow 9. V is for Victory -
Interesting. I think that's a legit claim if it's one season, but if a signing bonus exceeds the average contract amount per season that'd be a harder argument. A 1 year $10MM with $9MM as signing bonus, yeah ok he's clearly being paid $10MM for 17+ football games, not $9MM because he's handsome and $1MM for playing football. That isn't the same as a 2 year $40MM contract with a $35MM signing bonus -- ir something similarly front-loaded like the 49ers gave Garoppolo when they first got him from NE: contract was $27.5MM/year but $42MM was paid out in y1, $35MM of which was signing+roster+workout bonus money. $42M wasn't for playing year 1; they were front-loading future pay. Then again for him some handsome-bonus money could be rationalized for being so dreamy, so maybe JG isn't a great example. With high 1st round picks that happens all the time, even if they're homely lol. It's a court case, though, so logic often doesn't prevail.
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Oh no doubt, it's not fair game to give him white-out for every past stupid decision, and I said in my post I'm not absolving him for some maddening moves (and I suppose, non-moves). But at the start of this season, he's in the position he's in, whatever was the path was to get to that point. The main area where the present offseason would be different under a new GM (aside from judgment trends) would be in handling sunk costs like recent signings (without guaranteed $ left) & draft picks. I guess if the new GM was a particular name type GM with hype following him (or if it was a hyped up GM-HC like Harbaugh, Reid, etc.). But a GM alone rarely has such panache that FAs who'd otherwise give us the finger would suddenly find the NYJ more attractive. That'd have to be from a new HC, too, or the current HC showing that rosters can be winners under his oversight.
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OK but in terms of cost to the player, who gets the tax check is a distinction without a difference; in both instances it's "the government" (or I suppose, a government). I meant more like a situation of a player getting signed by [Dallas, Houston, Seattle, Tennessee, Vegas, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville]. Signs whatever length contract, but in a given year if ~90% of it is bonus money, that bonus money would be free of state taxes. Then for the remaining 10%, about half of it (8 or 9 home games) is also taxed at that 0% rate. Then the remaining 8-9 (road) games are each at 1/17 the base salary gets taxed at those road games' rates. BUT unless they've got so many road games in 1 state (e.g. 4 games vs California teams) the rate would be as though that's their entire income from the year. A minimum ~$1MM base salary = ~$60K/game = nowhere near the cutoff for the marginal rate in progressive high tax states like NY, NJ, CA. (It sounds right to me, but I don't know if it is right, which is why I tagged you; I'm legit curious myself)
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I don’t think domicile location matters for football income. For endorsements income, cap gains, and other non-NFL income yes, but I think the NFL income is based on the state locale of the team paying it for bonuses and home games, and opponent stadium locations for road game checks. While no player pays literally zero state taxes, some can come very close (especially in y1 signing, followed by restructures that follow, if playing for a zero state tax team). The bonus checks are in the team’s state e.g. NJ/CA/etc. vs. FL/WA/etc. If a Dallas player gets $10MM for the year and about $9MM (90%) is paid out as signing-roster-option + workout bonus, then ~95% has zero state income tax (the bonus money plus the 8-9 home games out of the 17 game checks). Among the rest of that $1MM base salary, it’s also often at a flat low state rate and/or a non-marginal state rate. So 1/17 of that $1MM base salary wouldn’t qualify for the marginal rate in those states that have progressive rates; therefore for a road game against Buffalo, a Panthers player would pay NYS’s 5.5% rate on that ~$60K game check, not one of the 10%+ NYS tax rates. Tagging @southparkcpa to see if I got some (or all) of this wrong.
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Above average would be great but also unnecessary. If Warren is merely an average starting LT that would be plenty enough to put first round and upper level FA resources towards shoring up the team elsewhere. Right now they just acquired 3 veterans because they’re not convinced he’s not (or not yet) an adequate enough starter anywhere on the line. The two new tackles only have one year deals so again, to go from there to merely average starting LT, would be plenty. The unfortunate reality is he’s very likely to get opportunities to show it in at minimum of a few more live action games. 🤞 No one doesn’t want an above average LT here, but it’s not a necessity. On >90% of pass plays the difference between average and above average isn’t nearly as significant as people make it out to be. The right QB with smoke targets more than makes up for that disparity, while the wrong one (like we’ve had) exacerbates it.
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I’m trying to take the attitude that his many past flops - from Kalil to Cook - can’t be undone. This offseason he’s done fine. Could it be better? Well there were some better FAs but (in no small part because of Douglas’s own past roster building efforts and Saleh as HC) it seems there were plenty who wanted no part of signing (or re-signing) here. It’s a legitimate handicap, so I’m viewing this month at least partly through that lens, while acknowledging it doesn’t at all whitewash all his many misfires.
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He played in 33.8% of the Giants snaps last year. Bet the incentive is no less than 35% than that just to make it NLTBE. Good chance it's even more than 35%, but 35 would be the bare minimum. He won't hit any higher (50%+) incentive anyway, because he'd be injured before that happens.
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If you thought last year was awful...
Sperm Edwards replied to Ecuadorian Jet's topic in NY Jets Forum
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Agree with #1. No-brainer. I don’t think it’s Douglas who picks the winner of a competition (Mann). That’s the coaching staff. The GM brings in the competition (or at times, unfortunately, brings in no competition) and the winner is picked by the coach(es). #6 is between overblown and ridiculous, though. You’d be hard pressed to find any GM who picks re-signing RT-only FA Moses, after one merely adequate season, over his under-contract starting tackles, both of whom project to both tackle positions. Moses wasn’t signing here again to be mere competition when other teams had no-competition starting jobs to offer. He said as much at the time. Only a casual fan would say “cut your prior season’s 1st round pick” after one injury. A GM isn’t doing that. The path to this spot aside, he’s in the position he’s in today, not the position he was in when hired. He's made more than his share of maddening moves. For this offseason, with players and agents more or less saying nobody with options wants to play here unless the Jets beat the next best offer by a crazy amount, I’m pretty happy on paper thus far. Will it work out? Who knows. They're still the Jets.
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So basically it’s the Rams’ SB strategy. Except their LT was older and less heralded, and on paper at least, the OL personnel just less accomplished across the board. The biggest OL investment, by far, was a late 2nd rounder they’d drafted 6 years earlier, on 3rd-tier level OT contract extension. The Jets are not drafting a QB until day 3 at the earliest because they’re all in on Rodgers, like others all in on older veteran QBs until they retire: Tampa/Brady, Den/Manning, NYG/Manning, SD/Rivers, Pit/Roeth, NO/Brees, Min/Cousins, Dal/Romo, and plenty others. While there are exceptions (e.g. Packers) it’s the exception not the rule. It’d be the same if the FO/HC were on more secure ground.
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Plus cheapness of a deal aside, he surely sees himself as a starter and isn’t taking some backup job in mid-March. Anywhere he goes he starts until/unless he gets injured. It’s ridiculous to think otherwise.
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