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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 714503" data-attributes="member: 7261">Nothing but the market and the mindset of course.  <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" />Lacy's contract with Seattle is a good example of trying to compete against the current contract structure.  Seahawks give Lacy a one year $5.5 million, including $3 million fully guaranteed.  If I am TT and the Packers I am offering no guarantees and lots of incentives to earn that $5.5M or more, but hard to compete when you have a team offering a guy like Lacy (and his agent who cashes in on the guarantees as well) fully guaranteed money that he could potentially retire on if need be.  I think it was Ricky Williams back in the 90's that went all in with a fully incentive based contract and lost, guessing that alone set the evolution of such contracts back a decade or two.</blockquote>

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