Re: Not costing him much.
Remember the NFL paychecks are paid by taking their annual salary and dividing g it by the games played. So if you cut six games he is losing about 1/3 of his salary, and I imagine any of his incentives are shot as well.
I am not making a comment on his behavior, but I am pretty sure that kind of a loss in income would put a dent in anyone’s day.
His contract is backloaded. This season he’s basically on league minimum. It was all structured to minimize the financial effect of the suspension everybody knew was coming. Personally I think the arbitrator should have taken that into consideration and dinged him for more than a season just based on that. But 3rd party arbitrators gonna arbitrary I guess.
His 5 year deal is totally back loaded, because they knew this was coming when doing the contract.
He’s making millions this year but 10s of millions in the out years.
Also the 40m signing bonus is unaffected.