Cash Specifics On The Brady Deal
March 24th, 2020
“Such a deal, Ira. Look at that!”
What a deal!
So what are these incentives in Tom Brady’s new Bucs contract, which is guaranteed for 2020 and 2021.
Aside from the $50 million guaranteed, Brady has incentives driven by greatness, as detailed by former NFL Network reporter and current TheMMQB.com insider Albert Breer. Joe is impressed that the incentives aren’t the easy kind, such has workout bonuses, roster bonuses, fitness clauses, etc.
Per Breer’s Twittering on the subject.
Markers: $500K for playoffs, $750K for winning [wild card] playoff, $1.25M for NFC title game, $1.75M for Super Bowl, $2.25M for world title. Brady will earn $562,500 each for Top-5 in QB rating, TDs, yards, completion percentage, yards/attempts. A maximumof $2.25M in performance incentives means Brady maxes out in hitting 4 of the 5, and those require minimum of 224 pass attempts.
On the team incentives, Brady needs to hit 75 percent play-time to get them. Incentives are in both years, $4.5M/year. Which gets you to max of $59M.
Joe thinks the Bucs really got off easy. Does anyone think Team Glazer wouldn’t have paid Brady $30 million annually ($60 million) for two years?
March 24th, 2020 at 10:46 am
Geez
That is what you call a dealio
Great creativity
And brady agreeing even better. He wants to be pushed with those escalators
March 24th, 2020 at 10:48 am
No but paying 43 old 25 million you better be getting some upgrades for sure.
I mean the weapons talk scare me because I believe we have above average recievers
We need AB and Edleman to come along with ME and CG
March 24th, 2020 at 10:48 am
For sure joe. He’s always been about cap flexibility. How much more is 30 million in Tampa vs Boston or LA? Pretty sure it’s substantial.
Now let’s do something worth while with the $…… see if Chris Jones or Jamal Adams may be available.
Now you can give give Godwin the extension before he makes 20 million a year.
Make sure Suh doesn’t get away with no replacement.
March 24th, 2020 at 10:49 am
Joe, do the incentives not count against the cap?
March 24th, 2020 at 10:49 am
I’m still in shock over Brady!
Additional news:
Panthers are expected to release Cam Newton as soon as today.
So, I’ll ask the big question: Should we sign him as a backup? Think it through before answering. He’s got some injuries to heal up from, but being a backup will allow him to do that. He’s played in a Superbowl. He has a chip on his shoulder toward the Panthers. He can win games if called up, and he has a very fiery attitude.
He’s young enough to replace Brady in 2 years.
I think it is worth at least considering.
March 24th, 2020 at 10:51 am
Bucs have $20,407,788 in cap space.
March 24th, 2020 at 10:51 am
That’s after deducting for the draft.
March 24th, 2020 at 10:54 am
$25M a year guarantee for a 43 year old football is still a big risk. Father time catches up and the risk of injury becomes higher each year past your prime.
March 24th, 2020 at 11:01 am
thats why they signed him! a true baller, cept it aint all about the money and stats, it’s about doing something no one ever has. SB wins in both divisions!
bring it on MR BRADY, AMERICAS QB!
March 24th, 2020 at 11:05 am
We’re getting pissed the off Tom Brady, this is going to be awesome.
March 24th, 2020 at 11:05 am
If you want to read the Dumbest post tune in to this dingleberry …
Obviously Brady needs the money , and he needs some type of challenge to keep him motivated to make him more money ….. since he’s barely 43yrs.
Bird Says:
March 24th, 2020 at 10:46 am
Geez
That is what you call a dealio
Great creativity
And brady agreeing even better. He wants to be pushed with those escalators
March 24th, 2020 at 11:13 am
Is it true Brate restructured and took a pay cut?
March 24th, 2020 at 11:15 am
Bonzai
Where did you get those numbers? They seem wrong.
March 24th, 2020 at 11:29 am
This is because Brady actually gets it. Yes, his wife is already super rich but he understand that taking $25-30M helps the team instead of taking $35M to be the highest paid QB.
March 24th, 2020 at 11:30 am
Re-sign Suh and pick up the phone to try and swing a trade of D Smith + day 3 pick fot Trent Williams.
March 24th, 2020 at 11:30 am
Bonzai,
I really think Cam is done. He’s not an accurate enough passer is today’s NFL and he’s no longer the athlete he was to keep playing the way he did. He was a heck of a player and a force when he won MVP but at this point I think his physical decline is worse than Brady in some ways.
March 24th, 2020 at 11:31 am
killfish, Brate restructured and the article i mentioned said it was a pay cut but the numbers weren’t disclosed.
March 24th, 2020 at 11:35 am
Please don’t tell Team Glazer, Joe! Soon enough, they will want to sign Brady to an extension well into his 50s. They love paying players not to play. They can’t help themselves. #PaidFloridaVacation
March 24th, 2020 at 11:36 am
Incentives have always perplexed me. Maybe I’m just a fat lazy sob but once you get that 50 million, does 500k really motivate you that much? I could see it motivating your average player that’s only getting a million or so a year but not the top dollar contracts. I realize we’re talking about Brady and he doesn’t have a lack of motivation. But I’ve always thought the incentives should be higher and the guarantees lower just for motivation purposes.
Maybe if that we’re the case Jameis and some kickers wouldn’t have made it out of the locker room alive after some of those games!! 😂
March 24th, 2020 at 11:37 am
D-Rome
Agree completely. But he performed in an entertaining and winning way for awhile that virtually assured his early retirement.
He used his unique size 6-5 250 to frequently simply truck the defender. Exciting for sure…but takes too much from your body even at that size.
March 24th, 2020 at 11:39 am
Brady is going to be the greatest of all time because of his wins. Not the “respect” for being the top paid player. If you are on a crap team for your prime years, go ahead and demand the respect in the highest salary. But if you want to win, find a decent organization and make it work to have the best team possible. Brady will make more on the brand after playing than he will playing 20 years. If manholes is smart, he will take the same route
March 24th, 2020 at 11:41 am
Here’s hoping he earns every penny…..both years…..
I like the deal…….actually it’s better than the $27 mil to franchise Winston…..
Something tells me that Brady would play just as hard without the incentives.
March 24th, 2020 at 11:47 am
” $1.75M for Super Bowl, $2.25M for world title” What’s a “world title”
March 24th, 2020 at 11:48 am
basically it only maxes out if we get the same Brady that Belichick could rely on. otherwise he gets paid like Jameis under the franchise tag. seems sensible all around
March 24th, 2020 at 11:57 am
AlabamaBucsFan Says:
March 24th, 2020 at 10:54 am
$25M a year guarantee for a 43 year old football is still a big risk.
Gtfo. $25m for the best QB of all time, who put up decent numbers last year with absolutely no weapons, who has barely missed any football in his career….. That’s a STEAL.
His market value according to sporttrac was $34m. He would have been worth it at that price too.
March 24th, 2020 at 11:58 am
Dang, all that stuff to do. Offer those to the last QB we had, and he’d be paying the Bucs, not the other way around.
March 24th, 2020 at 12:03 pm
Neal, what it sounds like to me, is he gets 1.75 to take us to the SB and 2.25 for winning
March 24th, 2020 at 12:51 pm
Buccaneer Bonzai Says:
March 24th, 2020 at 10:49 am
I’m still in shock over Brady!
Additional news:
Panthers are expected to release Cam Newton as soon as today.
So, I’ll ask the big question: Should we sign him as a backup? Think it through before answering. He’s got some injuries to heal up from, but being a backup will allow him to do that. He’s played in a Superbowl. He has a chip on his shoulder toward the Panthers. He can win games if called up, and he has a very fiery attitude.
He’s young enough to replace Brady in 2 years.
Rupaul?! Ya no thanks!
March 24th, 2020 at 12:56 pm
Adr nagy
Just keep thinking about dem balls kid
I know you are missing them
March 24th, 2020 at 12:58 pm
Adr nagy
And here is the worst post ever
Jameis winston 5 years 150 million
I mean how moronic was that
Remember that
Dude it must suck being you
March 24th, 2020 at 1:16 pm
AB is a malcontent with major issues. He is the last thing we need. Overpriced Diva!
Elite talent but the downside is unavoidable. Receiver is the last of our worries.
March 24th, 2020 at 1:28 pm
It’s a fantastic deal considering the Glazer’s stand to rake in a fortune. But, I’ve got nothing against that because that money usually filters it’s way back into the organization anyway. i.e indoor training facility, gym equipment, new unis, and computer technology.
March 24th, 2020 at 1:52 pm
above average WRs?….lol….
GO BUCS!!!!!
March 24th, 2020 at 2:33 pm
The key to all of this is..Our Bucs better have a good backup. One who knows this system. Because you are a fool to believe a 43 yr old is not going to go down at some time. its just a fact of father time. Buc Fans are so caught up in the hype, they are not seeing this situation as it really is. Our O line has got to get much better. Statue of Liberty Brady ain’t running nowhere and you all know it.
March 24th, 2020 at 2:52 pm
That was a heck of a deal.
Now use some of that money to sign Winston to be the backup.
March 24th, 2020 at 3:19 pm
@Lakeland Steve, Incentives break down into two types, likely to be earned and unlikely to be earned. Likely to be earned counts immediately against the cap, unlikely to be earned would count against next years’ cap, IF they are earned.
How is it determined which category an incentive falls into? Pretty simple, if the proposed incentive was reach last season, then it’s considered likely to be earned. If it wasn’t reached last season, then unlikely to be earned.
So for Mr. Brady, ALL of the team incentives are considered Unlikely to be earned, as the Bucs didn’t make the playoffs last year. I think most of the individual goals would fall into that category as well, because I do not think Brady was top-5 in any category (I could be wrong).
March 24th, 2020 at 3:48 pm
5 year $150 million lol
March 24th, 2020 at 4:00 pm
Cam Newton was fine, at Auburn.
But, all that Vinegar they use on Carolina BBQ has ate his body up.
March 24th, 2020 at 4:38 pm
I said this whole time, it’s not about the money for Brady. He came here to win. Our weapons and our rising defense give him that
March 24th, 2020 at 4:41 pm
Tom Brady is worth every penny because of the person he is. I’m sure he wanted this way to help the team but if he balls out; he gets paid. All big FA contracts should be written this way.
March 24th, 2020 at 5:21 pm
“Something tells me that Brady would play just as hard without the incentives.”
Agree TBBF. The incentives were created with Aretha in the background belting out R E S P E C T…Find out what it means to me.
We just found out what it means to Brady…at least financially.
March 25th, 2020 at 1:04 pm
Imagine, Brady signs deal that bets on himself… JW wanted $30+ guaranteed. What a misread of his “stat sheet”!
The Mariota deal in Vegas is the best JW should have hoped for… and thank goodness he over estimated himself because Glazers would probably have brought him back on that deal ($7.5 guaranteed base with incentives to get to $13ish in 2020 and $22 in 2021). MUCH better having Brady!
And yes, I promise, I’ll quit commenting nay more about JW. Just one more “Blameless” for old times sake. Moving on. 🙂