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For the team, the deal works best IF the structure is somewhat known and you have a lot of cash being delivered via roster bonuses/signing bonuses that let you keep 1) giving the player lots of cash now; 2) spreading the cash over an extended contract.
With Mahomes, KC will always want to kick the can down the road on his cap hits as much as possible, because you always want the player.
For Mahomes, it's guaranteed money/cash in hand that matter.
So... with the whole percentage of the cap coming up, I do wonder if maybe there's a way to schedule roster bonuses that use a percentage of the salary cap or something of that nature. Would potentially be the best of both worlds.
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