chooses to take a little less. . . knowing the team is gonna spend the money elsewhere and have a real chance to win another title.
It's hard to say what i would do, but i think at a certain point maximum dollars isn't a priority. Winning is, and sometimes those things conflict. Eli has had 2 big contracts already, and he has the ability to make money for doing nothing for the rest of his days.
friendly. He's already said he doesn't want to go anywhere else and of course he's smart enough to know this contract will cement his legacy and perhaps get him back to the Super Bowl....why wouldn't he sign a friendly deal to put the players to get him to that position.
He won't go to another team inless forced to like his brother was from Indy. As far as signing for less, I have always gotten the impression that the Manning's take the money they feel is due them. In other words I wouldn't expect a huge discount.
It will include at least $38M in guaranteed money and average $20+M/season. The $38M comes from the total of what it would cost to pay him his 2015 salary and franchise him in 2016, so that will form the basis of his guaranteed money he receives in the first two years of any new contract he signs. And the $20+M/year comes from the average salaries of Joe Flacco ($20.1M) and Matt Ryan ($20.75). Peyton's contract isn't a good comparison for Eli, because he was 36 years old and had just missed a year of football due to injury, with no certainty that he would ever be the same.
It's hard to say what i would do, but i think at a certain point maximum dollars isn't a priority. Winning is, and sometimes those things conflict. Eli has had 2 big contracts already, and he has the ability to make money for doing nothing for the rest of his days.
It's the price of resigning a franchise qb....
I'm more worried about JPP.