Future contracts

[tino38]

The cowboys were able to sign Tyron Smith today to an 8 year extension. He's now under contract with Dallas for the next 10 years. Will we be able to do long term contracts like this eventually?

"@RapSheet: The #Cowboys and star LT Tyron Smith are finalizing an 8-year mega-extension, source says. This was a priority."

"@RapSheet: #Cowboys have star LT Tyron Smith under contract for the next 10 years for a total of $109M, per source. Second deal for 2011 1st rounders"

[soonertf]

We have LTCs. Just not for that many years.

[tino38]

We have LTCs. Just not for that many years.

Right, that's what I am curious on. The years.

[Goodell]

We have LTCs. Just not for that many years.

Right, that's what I am curious on. The years.

I believe teams here can do up to 7 years (almost as long as your example) on free agency bidding.

We kept LTC options to teams with existing players under contract fairly simple and straight forward when we introduced that, but teams can do up to 5 years. We could maybe look at much longer or more varied options if a lot of interest in that and it's not a ton of work involved. But there's possibly other points also perhaps that wouldn't be good for the league in terms of contracts structured by the league for extension options. This isn't real money after all, it's fake money clicked from a computer screen with no real cost and easy for people to potentially wreck franchises with bad choices over the long-term (longer than most will even play here) then leave it in ruins for the next computer player to inherit a handful of 10 year deals signed by some inexperienced player before. To some degree, the options we allow have to have some best interest of the league overall considerations with protections against abuse or incompetence that don't completely wreck parts of the league for near decades. NFL owners are around a lot longer typically than our players on average with real costs for massive long-term deals compared to our mouse click commitments here.

[tino38]

Yeah I was just curious on it. Personally I am not sure how I feel about the contract length going any further out. They may very well be set best right now. I was not aware that the teams in the nfl actually gave contracts of that length.

[Jared A]

I'm not sure why he would want to sign a contract that prevents him negotiating for 10 years.


With only 40mil guaranteed, the Cowboys have control of him for a decade. If he's amazing, he'll be a bargain for them. If he sucks, the Cowboys will cut him.


He would've been better off with a shorter contract, and then resigning later on.

[Jared A]

Oh, and all that said... we don't need longer contracts. I think we should knock our current lengths down to 5 years.

[Strategist]

Oh, and all that said... we don't need longer contracts. I think we should knock our current lengths down to 5 years.

I don't think we need to increase or decrease it. I think ltc's and franchise tags at 5 and open market deals at 7 are just fine.

[vikingfan]

The cowboys were able to sign Tyron Smith today to an 8 year extension. He's now under contract with Dallas for the next 10 years. Will we be able to do long term contracts like this eventually?

"@RapSheet: The #Cowboys and star LT Tyron Smith are finalizing an 8-year mega-extension, source says. This was a priority."

"@RapSheet: #Cowboys have star LT Tyron Smith under contract for the next 10 years for a total of $109M, per source. Second deal for 2011 1st rounders"

I would urge the league to not follow the cowboy way. They have a tendency to do things the wrong way as is the case here.