Ravens want to rework Flacco's current $120 million contract

[Betallsports]

The Baltimore Ravens gave Joe Flacco franchise-quarterback money a month after he was named Super Bowl MVP. Now it sounds like the team wants a do-over.


In a conference call with season-ticket holders, owner Steve Bisciotti said Wednesday the team would like to re-sign Flacco to a more cap-friendly deal. Flacco signed a six-year, $120.6 million deal in March 2013 and his cap number next season jumps to $28.55 million.


"I'm not real worried about it," Bisciotti said. "I know he wants to stay."


Flacco, who has not missed a game in his first seven years in the league, has never thrown for 4,000 yards or 30 touchdowns despite guiding the Ravens to 10 playoff wins. Flacco will have made more than half of his current contract by the end of the 2015 season.


"We can make it a win-win for Joe," Bisciotti said. "I think he'll be very amendable to a new deal."


The team could offer a more frontloaded deal for Flacco, giving him more guaranteed money at the start of the contract.


"I'm very confident that we'll get it done," Bisciotti said. "Joe and his agent both acknowledged when we did the deal that we would be back at the negotiating table three years later. We are just as interested in Joe as we were three years ago."

 

[Bourn]

In other news Romo restructured his deal to free up 12m this year in cap space. Just making some room for some AP.

 

[MikeB]

I couldn't believe when the Ravens gave him that kind of money.

 

[Betallsports]

I couldn't believe when the Ravens gave him that kind of money.

me too

I even lost a wager on it face)(*^%

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

His cap # is around 6 or 7 more times than Andrew Luck's. haha. The Ravens are always Wile E. Coyote. Meep meep

 

[CaPPiNgTiGeRz]

To bad they can't rework it down to say 60 Mill and erase that massive fuck up from before.

 

[slapshot]

His cap # is around 6 or 7 more times than Andrew Luck's. haha.

Hopefully Luck never wins or makes Super Bowl so the Colts can keep getting a good deal

 

[PatsFan1283]

Pretty lazy journalism by whoever wrote that. Wanting to restructure a contract isn't wanting a "Do-over"

They just want to flatten his cap hold. Happens all the time with QBs.

 

[Betallsports]

Pretty lazy journalism by whoever wrote that. Wanting to restructure a contract isn't wanting a "Do-over"

They just want to flatten his cap hold. Happens all the time with QBs.

I think it means my wager is Void


jk

 

[PatsFan1283]

Paying a QB low 9 figs over half a decade is really nothing to an NFL team as long as the guy is solid. Team like the Ravens makes something like 1/3rd of a billion in revenue a year. If they didn't pay Flacco that deal then 10-20 other teams would've.

Who else you gonna get to do the most important job? Vlad The Impaler? Probably throws like a girl.

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

Hopefully Luck never wins or makes Super Bowl so the Colts can keep getting a good deal

Technically the Colts could have him for 3 more years without making him the highest paid player in the game but my guess is next year at this time, he will be the NFL's highest paid player. That is why alot of these deals are 1 or 2 years.

Why try to act like Luck stinks? That is just stupid thinking.

 

[PatsFan1283]

Technically the Colts could have him for 3 more years without making him the highest paid player in the game but my guess is next year at this time, he will be the NFL's highest paid player. That is why alot of these deals are 1 or 2 years.

Why try to act like Luck stinks? That is just stupid thinking.

Not really because he would likely holdout.

He will be a bargain even with his new deal though. Cap going up a lot next 5 years barring economic collapse.

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

Not really because he would likely holdout.

He will be a bargain even with his new deal though. Cap going up a lot next 5 years barring economic collapse.

He wouldn't want to ruin his image.

Next year is final year of rookie contract, then year after that is team option with the cap hit, then following year could franchise.

Holding out never ends well for the team or the player. They are prob. already in discussions. The Colts aren't the Chargers or Jets. "Lets just let it ride to save 40 cents on the dollar"

 

[PatsFan1283]

If a team really wanted to go the route you are talking about with an elite QB, they would holdout and just get what they want for the most part.

Of all the positions you see holding out, QBs it never really goes far because the teams know to pay them.

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

If a team really wanted to go the route you are talking about with an elite QB, they would holdout and just get what they want for the most part.

Of all the positions you see holding out, QBs it never really goes far because the teams know to pay them.

Yeah, its a moot point but I was just now thinking of the 2 quarterbacks that held out. Ryan Leaf and Jamarcus Russell. Still can't beleive how lucky the colts got. Manning doesnt miss a start his entire career and the year he sits out, Luck is there. I would prob. think powerball odds maybe better. Not like Manning has been banged up his entire career. Never missed a game. On top of that, Manning stays in 97 when he could have come out and Luck stays an extra year as well. Crazy.

 

[PatsFan1283]

Yeah that was a nice bit of fortune for the Colts. You know what would've been even better? If they had the 199th pick in the draft in 2000.

 

[Murphy8276]

Yeah that was a nice bit of fortune for the Colts. You know what would've been even better? If they had the 199th pick in the draft in 2000.

touche' and agreed Brady is the best puff_>>

-murph

 

[wilbur]

me too

I even lost a wager on it face)(*^%

You'll lose another