Thread: Forte's Deal by the Numbers

Originally Posted by short faced bear

Welcome back Kotter. i think we all need a break from time to time. Hope you didn't have trouble w/the fires out there Soul.

Thanks to you shorty and the rest of the DaBears "sweathogs". LOL

The fires were to the North and South of Denver. One just west of Ft. Collins and another that started west of Colorado Springs to the South of but burned it's way right to the edge to town before they got it under control. Some deaths and about 600 or so homes destroyed between the two and a whole lot of people homeless and out of work because of it.

For the most part those of us in and around Denver were spectators but (we had our big fire around here back in March) we've got at least one member who lives in the Springs, Mike's Nephew. Has anyone heard from him and has he posted lately? Need to check in with him and see if he was affected.

no more Bear Down button?

thanks Soul is back

Originally Posted by GermansbombedPH

no more Bear Down button?

thanks Soul is back

No more "Beardown" or the more negative "Dislike" buttons. GbPH. To many hard feelins being created with that. Now you can use the reputation button when you want to do a like and leave a comment if you so choose. That's a better idea all around.

FWIW, these are the terms of Matt Forte's contract as reported by Spotrac;


Matt Forte

Running Back

Players: Drafted:Round 2 (#44 overall), 2008
College: Tulane

Current Salary Information

Contract: 4 yr(s) / $30,400,000 Signing Bonus $4,000,000 Average Salary $7,600,000 End Year: 2015 Free Agent: 2016 / Unrestricted

Base Salary S. Bonus Misc. Bonus Cap Hit 2012 800,000 1,000,000 5,000,000 6,800,000 2013 1,700,000 1,000,000 4,600,000 7,300,000 2014 5,500,000 1,000,000 1,100,000 7,600,000 2015 6,650,000 1,000,000 1,150,000 8,800,000 2016 UFA $18 million guaranteed Signing Bonus: $4 million 2012 Roster Bonus: $5 million 2013 Roster Bonus: $4 million 2013 Per-Game Bonus: $500,000 2014 Per Game Bonus: $1 million 2015 Per Game Bonus: $1.05 million 2013-15 Workout Bonus: $100,000 Incentives: $4 million

As you can see this says the overall deal is worth about $1 mil less than has been reported elsewhere but their may be another $1 mil in performance bonuses which are not included here because they are not considered LTBE and therefore would not be charged against the cap until they were earned and paid.

I also mis-estimated the structure of year one so that will affect the cap hit both this year and in later years. I had guessed that he got an $8 mil signing bonus. He actually got a $4 mil SB which will be paid now but only $1 mil will be charged against the cap in each to the 4 years.

His $5 mil roster bonus and $800k salary will both hit the cap in 2012 so his first year cap cost will be $6.8 not the $3.8 mil I estimated. Less cap savings this year but lower cap costs in future years making it even less likely that he'd be cut just for cap reasons if he remains productive.

To protect themselves against a potential injury or loss of productivity a significant portion of the deal is paid in the form of roster bonuses which will not be earned if he's not on the roster and other bonuses in addition to salary pay out on a per game basis which also require Matt to remain healthy in order to collect all of it.

So this is an update to what I posted yesterday. Spotrac may or may not be 100% accurate with all of this but I've found them to be the most consistently accurate source for this info. If they're not 100% they're damn close.

Originally Posted by soulman

No more "Beardown" or the more negative "Dislike" buttons. GbPH. To many hard feelins being created with that. Now you can use the reputation button when you want to do a like and leave a comment if you so choose. That's a better idea all around.

meh, this sucks

Originally Posted by GermansbombedPH

meh, this sucks

I don't know. I wasn't opposed to the "like" button but the "dislike" is misunderstood sometimes and it can create some "pissin" matches between members that turn ugly. I was one of those in favor or removing it. The rep thing is more valuable than a like anyway.

Originally Posted by soulman

No more "Beardown" or the more negative "Dislike" buttons. GbPH. To many hard feelins being created with that. Now you can use the reputation button when you want to do a like and leave a comment if you so choose. That's a better idea all around.

Originally Posted by GermansbombedPH

meh, this sucks

Actually, we didn't take away the like/beardown/etc buttons. vBulletin, the software that we run the site through, had a security breach related to the particular feature that was allowing our site to be hacked/hijacked repeatedly. Rather than endure the bullshit, we took the feature away until they fix it. Of course it took us almost a month to figure out that was the problem, but hey we are just a bunch of stupid jocks, right?

Originally Posted by BearStuff

Actually, we didn't take away the like/beardown/etc buttons. vBulletin, the software that we run the site through, had a security breach related to the particular feature that was allowing our site to be hacked/hijacked repeatedly. Rather than endure the bullshit, we took the feature away until they fix it. Of course it took us almost a month to figure out that was the problem, but hey we are just a bunch of stupid jocks, right?

Can we blame this on Jerry Angelo & Mike Martz too? I also suspect our offensive line somehow had a hand in this too. It's all Webb's fault!

Originally Posted by JustAnotherBearsFan99

Can we blame this on Jerry Angelo & Mike Martz too? I also suspect our offensive line somehow had a hand in this too. It's all Webb's fault!

Exactly. Old style anyone?