Rams and Quinn Close to Contract Extension?

Quinn is believed to be targeting a deal that would pay him in the $15 million per season range on a four- to six-year extension.

That would be a good bargain. But I looked at it and it’s not that far off from other star D-linemen. Mario Wms’s deal is about 16 M a year.

Still, people talk about Watt’s 100 M (16.7 M a year) but if you look at it, it’s backloaded, so that makes it kind of phoney money.

I think one advantage the Rams have, besides guys wanting to play for Fisher (and in RQ’s case, Waufle too), is that they frontload–guys REALLY ARE getting that money, upfront.

InvaderRam wrote:

good point, zn. and i’m sure robert realizes this. instead of going for the headline “record contract”.

Yeah, I agree. It must help that Demoff was spawned by an agent. He must know how to sell his approach to agents.

In fact I looked at the Watts deal. What I say about it is only partly correct.

In the first year, 2015, he gets a big frontload. Nearly 22 M. Then for a few years, it’s around 12-13 M. However, in year 7 (2021), it’s 17.5 M. My bet is he never sees that 17.5 M. They either re-structure him by then or he’s done (he was drafted in 2011 so by 2021 he will be an 11 year vet). They can cut him any time after 2018 and lose nothing against the cap–literally zero.

So if you subtract that 17.5, it’s really a 13.7 M a year deal.

So I was right to an extent–it does have some back-loaded trick money in it.

But then they frontload part of it too.

I think you’re right that RQ wants the real money upfront, and I would be surprised if it had a trick money backloaded final year the way Watts deal does. I bet they load it into the first couple of years and then the cap numbers go down, similar to what they did with JL.