NFL Free Agency Minnesota - Seattle war

TheEnforcer · 03-25-2006

I love watching the offseason free agency period in the NFL and this year has been especially interesting. First you had Minnesota with it's enormus amount of cap room raid one of the best guards in football and give him an insane contract for a guard and put a "poison pill" in the contract, which Seattle would have to match the terms of for them to retain Hutchinson, by gauranteeing all $49 million of the contract if Hutchinson wasn';t the highest paid offensive lineman on the team which was guaranteed to happen because Seattle has one of the highest paid left tackles in the league Walter Jones whose salary would have to be REDUCED to keep Hutchinson. So, what does Seattle do in return? Goes after Minnesota wide receiver Nate Burleson and puts two of it's own "poison pill" clauses in the contratc where all $49 million of the contract for Burleson would be gauranteed if he paid five games in the state of Minnesota in any year of the contract or if he made a higher annual salary than all of the RB's on the Viking roster combined which he would easily do at this point and likely still would even if they drafted a running back in the draft in April.

Fun stuff to watch!!

03-25-2006	#1
TheEnforcer Scored VIP to Anton's Piss Tank Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,781	NFL Free Agency Minnesota - Seattle war I love watching the offseason free agency period in the NFL and this year has been especially interesting. First you had Minnesota with it's enormus amount of cap room raid one of the best guards in football and give him an insane contract for a guard and put a "poison pill" in the contract, which Seattle would have to match the terms of for them to retain Hutchinson, by gauranteeing all $49 million of the contract if Hutchinson wasn';t the highest paid offensive lineman on the team which was guaranteed to happen because Seattle has one of the highest paid left tackles in the league Walter Jones whose salary would have to be REDUCED to keep Hutchinson. So, what does Seattle do in return? Goes after Minnesota wide receiver Nate Burleson and puts two of it's own "poison pill" clauses in the contratc where all $49 million of the contract for Burleson would be gauranteed if he paid five games in the state of Minnesota in any year of the contract or if he made a higher annual salary than all of the RB's on the Viking roster combined which he would easily do at this point and likely still would even if they drafted a running back in the draft in April. Fun stuff to watch!!