[h=1]Dalton gets $17 million now, $22 million through early March[/h]Posted by Mike Florio on August 4, 2014, 2:14 PM EDT
APNo, Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton’s contract isn’t worth $115 million over six years, as others have reported. The base value, per a source with knowledge of the details, is $96 million over six years.
That doesn’t mean it’s time to have a bake sale for Andy Dalton. Still, that’s a $19 million gap between initial reports and reality.
The most important numbers are the numbers fully guaranteed at signing. Dalton receives a signing bonus of $12 million and a roster bonus in three days of $5 million. That’s a total of $17 million out of the gates. Coupled with his $986,000 base salary (which isn’t guaranteed as a legal matter but it is as a practical matter), Dalton will make $18 million in the first year of the deal.
Then, on the third day of the 2015 league year in March, Dalton earns a $4 million roster bonus. He also has a $3 million non-guaranteed base salary in 2015. That’s $25 million over two years.
Dalton passed on the opportunity to load injury-only guarantees into the contract, since the Bengals would have wanted Dalton to buy a disability policy similar to the one that the 49ers had Colin Kaepernick buy as part of his six-year extension. The policy cost $2 million in pre-tax dollars, and (as we’ll explain in a separate post) creates a bizarre donut hole of protection for the player and the team.
The rest of the base deal is simple. In addition to annual workout bonuses of $200,000, Dalton has base salaries of $10.5 million in 2016, $13.1 million in 2017, $13.7 million in 2018, $16 million in 2019, and $17.5 million in 2020.
Unlike the Kaepernick deal, which loaded up the base value artificially and then used de-escalators based on playing time and team or personal achievements, Dalton’s deal potentially goes up, not down.
If in any year he participates in 80-percent of the regular-season snaps and the Bengals get to the divisional round of the playoffs (via wild-card win or bye), he gets another $1 million in each additional year of the deal. If he qualifies at any point for the conference title game (with 80-percent playing time in the regular season), another $500,000 flows into the base value of the deal, for each additional year. If he wins a Super Bowl he won’t be driving off in a Hyundai; Dalton will get another $1.5 million per year for each remaining year of the deal.
So if the Bengals win the next Super Bowl this year and if Dalton participates in 80 percent of the regular-season snaps in 2014, he’ll get another $18 million over the life of the deal, pushing the new-money average from $16 million per year to $19 million. Getting to the divisional round this year pushes the new-money average to $17 million.
The contract nevertheless remains, like Kaepernick’s, mostly a year-to-year proposition, with Dalton being guaranteed as a practical matter two years and $25 million. That’s a lot more than he would have made over the next two seasons if he’d played out his rookie deal and then been slapped with the franchise tag. Beyond 2015, however, it’s a one-year-at-a-time existence no different than Kaepernick’s.
For most NFL players, that’s how it now works. And if teams are going to insist on disability policies payable to the franchise in the event of a serious injury, the franchise quarterback is better off forgetting about injury-only guarantees, buying the policy, and making it payable to himself.
The contract shows that the Kaepernick structure is taking root. That won’t change until a franchise quarterback hits the market, a franchise quarterback signs a deal in lieu of going year-to-year under the franchise tag, or the Seahawks opt to giveRussell Wilson a more favorable structure if only to highlight that Seattle treats its core players more fairly than the 49ers do.
Gruden was holding him back
he's going off this year
Jeff Risdon @JeffRisdon <small class="time" style="color: rgb(136, 153, 166); font-size: 13px;"> 3m</small>
Last two years, Andy Dalton has 9 games with QB Rating >100 and 3+ TDs. Andrew Luck has one. Not saying, just sayin'...
Thought gruden was a good offensive coach, red rocket didn't fit into grudens system that good or what?
Jeff Risdon @JeffRisdon <small class="time" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(136, 153, 166);"> 3m</small>
Last two years, Andy Dalton has 9 games with QB Rating >100 and 3+ TDs. Andrew Luck has one. Not saying, just sayin'...
How many playoff games has he won again?
Dalton takes the blame solely for these? They don't get to the playoffs without him. He was pretty bad last year in their playoff game, BUT had two fumbles inside the 10 from his teammates, did he not? They score when they were about to and last year is a completely different game and outcome. You can't always blame things on the QB in a team sport like football.
That's also the easiest cop-out argument...how many playoff games has he won. Sure, playoff wins matter, but then when a guy wins a couple/few playoff games then the people switch it to "how many SBs has he won?....like clockwork. These guys get paid for what they do in the regular season as much, if not more, than what they do in the playoffs. Only one team wins the SB each year, so anyone, in 29 other cities, could ask how good their QB really is, or does he deserve the money he gets paid after each year when they don't win the SB.
Look at his stats on those games. He rightfully deserves MOST (not all) of the blame.
Andy Dalton Playoffs Game Log
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Laruex the Bengals are loaded on both sides of the ball....yes he should shoulder much of the blame
He has a higher completion rate and ypg then flacco in the playoffs lol...
he was awful last year vs SD no doubt...that whole game was a disaster though...good Andy is pretty damn good...it's the bad Andy games that have to disappear...when he's not protected and goes bad he really falls off...needs to be more consistent going forward...
but he has won 30 games in first three seasons, one of only three guys...they had to extend him....
the Flacco deal is 10 million times worse, anyone knows thatHe has a higher completion rate and ypg then flacco in the playoffs lol...
he was awful last year vs SD no doubt...that whole game was a disaster though...good Andy is pretty damn good...it's the bad Andy games that have to disappear...when he's not protected and goes bad he really falls off...needs to be more consistent going forward...
but he has won 30 games in first three seasons, one of only three guys...they had to extend him....
I get that, but I guess my question becomes --- why does the OC keep putting the "cuffs" on him in the playoffs if he clearly can handle it in the regular season? Is it on the coaches because they call a very different game in the playoffs vs. regular season or do they just not trust him under pressure?
It's clear that they have drastically changed how they approach playoff games vs. regular season and the results speak for themselves. His play in those games is the most dramatic difference IMO. Hence, the obvious questions that come with it.
So Dalton is guaranteed $25 million over the next 2 years, a QB who has led his team to the playoffs the last 3 seasons?
Where's the problem with any of this?
Sounds like the organization did alright here
It's just like bashing Romo because he hasn't won in the playoffs....fine.
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