Quinn signs

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Quinn signs $65.5 million deal with Rams
• By Jim Thomas

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/football/professional/quinn-signs-million-deal-with-rams/article_a994e929-73f3-51fa-8bc9-cf52cd1af4a3.html

TAMPA, Fla. • Robert Quinn is sticking around for a while. On Saturday, the Rams signed the Pro Bowl defensive end to a four-year contract extension, which keeps him under contract through the 2019 season.

The overall value of the deal is $65.5 million, with $41.2 million in guaranteed money. That makes him the second-richest Rams player in terms of overall contract value and amount of guaranteed money. He trails only quarterback Sam Bradford, whose rookie contract as the first player chosen in the 2010 draft was worth $78 million — $50 million of which was guaranteed.

“We’ve been talking to Robert since about early spring,” said Kevin Demoff, the Rams’ executive vice president for football operations. “… We spent a lot of time over the summer. We got close at points, and really we tried to make a push before the season.”

That didn’t quite work, but the Rams and Quinn agents Tony Fleming and Mitch Frankel were close enough that they kept working to get something done. Quinn signed the deal Saturday before the team left Rams Park for Lambert Airport and the flight to Tampa.

“I thank the Rams and my agents for working together, trying to get something done,” Quinn said, at the team hotel in downtown Tampa. “Of course, I thank Mr. (Stan) Kroenke, the Rams’ organization, and my teammates, the fans, just for supporting me through the whole thing.

“It’s fun knowing where I’m gonna be at for the next six years of my life. And with a great head coach. We’re going in a great direction.”

That money is over a six-year period, because the 2014 and 2015 years of Quinn’s current deal were ripped up in the extension.

(Quinn was due $1.67 million this year under the last year of his original contract as a first-round pick in 2011, and $6.9 million in 2015 after the Rams exercised an option for a fifth year.)

Quinn led the NFC in sacks last year with 19, a franchise record since sacks became an official statistic in 1982. He was voted NFL defensive player of the year by the Pro Football Writers Association for 2013.

“He’s a tremendous player,” Demoff said. “He’s grown up every year since he’s been here and become a team leader. A pillar of the community. He’s the kind of player we want in our organization, and you want to reward.”

Considering what Quinn has done already, and the fact that he’s only 24 years old, the contract works for both parties. Quinn averages just under $11 million a year under the new deal, which isn’t exorbitant for a star defensive end these days. But he gets roughly two-thirds of that money — $41.2 million — as guaranteed dollars.

“It’s comforting to know my family’s taken care of,” Quinn said. “I can get that out of my head now and really play lights out with no worries. It’s kind of a weight lifted off my shoulder. … I want to set up my son.”

That would be Robert Quinn Jr., who was born right when Quinn signed his first contract with the Rams out of college in 2011. As a result, Quinn showed up a day late for his first training camp. By the way, Robert Jr. wants to be a baseball player.

Money well spent.

I kept watching guys go down with injuries during this early season, and I thought to myself if I were Quinn, I would worry about injury without a long-term contract. It’s so rare to feel great for both sides when your team inks a huge deal like this, but that’s exactly how I feel. This guy is a superstar who deserves to be paid.

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Agamemnon wrote:

15,618,583 fully guaranteed, is what drives the contract. Then look at the cap numbers for the last 4 years of the contract. The Rams can certainly live with this contract. imo</span>

Yeah they poured a bunch of it into 2015. As we already knew, frontloading.

There’s a lot of cap space still left in 2016.

2015 in contrast is pretty tight. If the cap is (as projected) 140 M, then right now, they have about 9 M. Enough to sign the draft picks and have some space left over.

Bradford, J.Long, and Langford are the vulnerable guys in 2015, if they want to create space. Not sure they WILL want to do that, so that might mean something, might not.

http://overthecap.com/salary-cap/st-louis-rams

Speaking of the cap.

Finnegan made the Dolphins final roster.

So…Rams get their 3 M, right?

I don’t think the Cap Sites have credited that yet.

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Agamemnon wrote:

zn wrote:

Speaking of the cap.

Finnegan made the Dolphins final roster.

So…Rams get their 3 M, right?

I don’t think the Cap Sites have credited that yet.
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I think Thomas said somewhere that the Rams get that credit next year.

Yeah I wasn’t clear.

I meant, I don’t see it credited for next year yet, on the sites.

I was suggesting that the sites haven’t kept up with it.