Staffordの大型契約から一夜明けて

昨晩の5年$135Mディールはアメリカでも大きな話題となっておりますが、こちらの状況を私が感じたなりに報告します。

デトロイトエリア＝Lionsファンの反応

• 圧倒的に支持

GB立ててDET落としとけばいいと思っている節穴アナリスト

• Playoff勝ったことないのに正気か？

支持しない理由

• Playoff勝ったことない
• Probowlも補欠でしか選ばれたことない
• Top5　QBじゃないだろ
• 勝ち越してるチーム相手の戦績が悪すぎる
• 生涯成績も負け越している

支持する理由

• Franchise QBはそうそういない
• もしFAになれば$30M/yくらいになるのは目に見えている
• Staffordなしで、Lionsは去年というかこれまでどれだけ勝てた？
• 個人的に共感したのはラジオで言っていた「反対するならあなたの解は何？」というのですが。。。

NBCにわかりやすく契約詳細があったので、コピペします。

この更改によって、Lionsは2017年シーズン$5.5Mのキャップスペースが生まれました。

最初の三年はStafford有利で、残り二年はチームにオプションがある契約とのことです。

1. $50 million signing bonus.

2. $1 million 2017 base salary, fully guaranteed.

3. $6.5 million roster bonus due on the fifth day of the 2018 league year. The bonus is guaranteed for injury at signing, and it become fully-guaranteed on the third day of the 2018 league year.

4. $9.5 million 2018 base salary, fully guaranteed at signing.

5. $5.5 million roster bonus due on the fifth day of the 2019 league year. The bonus is guaranteed for injury at signing, and it becomes fully-guaranteed on the fifth day of the 2018 (not 2019) league year.

6. $13.5 million 2019 base salary, guaranteed for injury at signing. It becomes fully-guaranteed on the fifth day of the 2018 (not 2019) league year.

7. $6 million roster bonus due on the fifth day of the 2020 league year. The bonus is guaranteed for injury at signing, and it becomes fully-guaranteed in the 2019 league year.

8. $15 million 2020 base salary.

9. $10 million roster bonus due on the fifth day of the 2021 league year.

10. $9.5 million 2021 base salary.

11. $10 million roster bonus due on the fifth day of the 2022 league year.

12. $12.5 million 2022 base salary.

13. $500,000 workout bonuses in 2018 through 2022.

Here are a few highlights of the deal.

1. The $50 million signing bonus is the most in league history, eclipsing the $40 million given last year by the Ravens to Joe Flacco.

2. The $51 million to be paid in the first year surpasses the $44 million in first year cash flow given to Flacco and Colts quarterback Andrew Luck.

3. $60.5 million is fully guaranteed at signing.

4. Given the structure, Stafford will have $86 million locked in as fully guaranteed in March of 2018. (Luck had $60 million triggered by year two; Raiders quarterback Derek Carr has $47 million.) The final $6 million becomes fully guaranteed in March of 2019.

5. All guarantees have no offset language, which means that if he’s released, he’ll be allowed to double dip.

6. As a practical matter, it’s a firm three-year commitment and likely at least four years. The guarantees expire after 2020, making the last two years (at $19.5 million and $22.5 million) team-held options. However, with significant roster bonuses due in March of both seasons, the Lions will have to make their decision quickly.

So that’s the deal. Yes, he could have played out his current deal and forced the Lions to tag him for up to three seasons. But Stafford has shifted the injury risk for the next three years (plus) to the Lions, he’s pocketed $50 million out of the gates, and he’ll likely make $108.5 million through 2020.

Over the capより引用。QBのサラリーランキングです。（これ、横に年齢あるともっといいね。）

この表を見てもわかりますが、もしStaffordと契約せずに$10Mほど安いQBを選ぼうと思うと、OsweilerやらBradfordレベルになるわけです。

そこで$10Mセーブして、DEやらRBをとっても、試合に勝てるわけでもなし。

FA市場に出れば、軽く今回より高い価格がつく実力のStaffordですので、今回は（も）Quinnが素晴らしい仕事をしたと思っています。

そして、こんなデータも。

無事これ名馬。

ちなみに昨晩、Staffordは奥さんとささやかなディナーを終わらせた後、TateとFaceTimeしながら情報が流れた瞬間を過ごしたそうです。

Lionsの選手からおめでとうTweetがいっぱい出ていましたが、Staffordは他の選手からの信頼も厚いようです。

常に練習場には一番早く来てる、とかQBとしてやらなければいけないことをしっかり実践しているからでしょう。

Staffordの記者会見のコメントは下記の通りとのことです。

“At certain points, at times, everything’s in play when you meet with my guys and [agent] Tom [Condon] and those guys at CAA, but in the back of my mind, I’ve always wanted to be here,” Stafford said, via NFL.com. “From the first day I met with my representatives, after I talked with [general manager] Bob [Quinn] and those guys in February, that was the first question he asked me and I said, ‘Absolutely, I want to be in Detroit.’ And you never know if that’s always going to work out or not, but that was my wish and intention all the way back then.”

“It was important [to finish the deal before the regular season],” Stafford added. “It wasn’t something all along I knew was gonna be the case, but as it got into training camp a little bit, I realized that I think we have an extremely talented team and for us to be worried about, or anybody, even myself, about my contract situation to what it was going to be, was going to be a disservice to the organization, to our team, to the players in the locker room. So I wanted to get this thing done and then kind of realized that during training camp.”

Quinnは長引いた交渉について以下のように語っています。

"These things aren't easy to do, but it was really professional the whole way through, going back to February or whenever the first time was that we talked about it," GM Bob Quinn said. "That was really important to me, because sometimes these negotiations don't go real smooth, and you get frustrated. But I don't think there was ever a sense of frustration on our level."I always thought eventually we'd come to an agreement, and I think we came to that last night, and I'm glad we're moving forward."

長引いたけど、フラストレーションはなかった、と。本当かどうかはわかりませんが、タイミングといい、内容といい、双方がWin-Winと思っているのは確かですね。ファンもHappyなのでWin-Win-Winですな。

Staffordがとてもうれしいことを言っています。

"When I was drafted here, we were obviously coming off an 0-16 season and in a lot of ways needed some new breath and some direction," Stafford said. "And I was lucky and happy and honored to be a part of getting it from where it was then to where it is now.

"Hopefully that exponential of a jump can happen again, and we can go from where we are now to where we really want to be. And that's hoisting a Lombardi Trophy."

そして、

“I’ve made Detroit my home,” Stafford said. “Obviously, I have a family now. You can hear them in the background (as one of his twin daughters started fussing a little at the press conference). I’ve really enjoyed it.

“I’ve learned to embrace everything good and bad about the city. That’s what’s great about the people of Detroit. It’s not always perfect, but the fabric of the city is amazing and it’s a really tight-knit community. I’ve enjoyed my time and I know I’m going to enjoy the next six years and hopefully more after that."

"I love playing here," Stafford said. "I'm going to continue to love playing here. I consider myself lucky to be part of it and I'm just happy I can continue for another six, at least."

なんか涙でてくる。。。