Remember when the bikes stole John Sullivan from the Seahawks by signing him to an offer sheet that fully guaranteed his contract if he played more than 2 games in the state of Washington in 1 season, thus guaranteeing the birds couldn't match it? Did the new cba kill that? Or could we have just done the same thing to chicago?
Originally Posted by: gbguy20
I remember that. It was frowned upon heavily and, like you said, was shut down in the CBA.
This is in the new CBA according to Wikipedia :
"No Offer Sheet may contain a Principal Term that would create rights or obligations for the Old Club that differ in any way (including but not limited to the amount of compensation that would be paid, the circumstances in which compensation would be guaranteed, or the circumstances in which other contractual rights would or would not vest) from the rights or obligations that such Principal Term would create for the Club extending the Offer Sheet (i.e., no 'poison pills')."We could've just offered him more money on the back-end than we think Chicago would give him? They have all the cap-space in the world, but thought the franchise tag was too expensive. They didn't sign him to a long-term deal, either.
Maybe add in a lot of guaranteed money? That'd be a ridiculously ballsy move.
In the end, though, I guess it's little more than forcing their hand in this matter. We just decided how a contract of a pretty high-payed player on our rivals team will look.