Thread: Broncos rework Colquitt's contract

Originally Posted by NightTerror218

Wonder if he has extra performance incentives to earn money back now

I read that he gets some amount if he makes the Pro Bowl this year. Can't remember how much but it was something like $300,000?

Originally Posted by VonDoom

Yeah, I think that's very relevant here. Elway seems to want to do anything he can to avoid dead money hits. There would have been a minor one had he been released, but this way, there is no issue at all.

Because it always comes back to bit teams in the butt and Elway has been masterful at keeping the Broncos out of harms way.

Originally Posted by Denver Native (Carol)

Vic Lombardi ‏@VicLombardi 4h

With Colquitt re-working his contract, pretty much tells me Schmitz has not been consistent enough to compete for the punting job.

I don't see it that way. It's entirely possible that Schmitz was playing consistent enough to make Elway go to Colquitt's agent and say take a pay cut or find a new team.

Originally Posted by Ziggy

I don't see it that way. It's entirely possible that Schmitz was playing consistent enough to make Elway go to Colquitt's agent and say take a pay cut or find a new team.

I haven't heard that the other guy was that good. If that's case then they should have sent him packing.

The very fact the other guy is there is leverage enough. It's not necessarily that other guy is better.

Originally Posted by Buff

Were you guys all born yesterday? He took a pay cut because he had to. If he had any inkling whatsoever that another team would have paid him more - he would have told us to shove it. His production sucked, so he did what he had to do to keep his job.

If it's true that Schmitz had been struggling, colquitt very well could have called their bluff knowing that he was their only option at punter. Players get stubborn about pay cuts all the time. He should be commended for handling this the way he did.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

If it's true that Schmitz had been struggling, colquitt very well could have called their bluff knowing that he was their only option at punter. Players get stubborn about pay cuts all the time. He should be commended for handling this the way he did.

LOL at the idea of a punter calling a team's bluff. Dominique Rodgers Cromartie - who was actually valuable and good at football - called Elway's bluff on a $50 million deal and got the offer rescinded. You're telling me a punter who sucked last year is going to take a hard line?

This wasn't a choice or a decision on Colquitt's part - Elway said "here is what we're going to pay you" and Colquitt said "Thank you, sir, that's very generous of you."

Colquitt signed a three-year, $11.7 million extension in 2013 that made him the league's highest-paid punter with an average salary of $3.9 million per year. His new $1.6 million salary, down from the $3 million he was set to earn, applies only to 2015; his salary for 2016, the final year on his deal, remains at $3.25 million.

The changed contract increases the chances Colquitt will remain the Broncos' punter. It also created a little elasticity with the salary cap, but wasn't designed to pursue any specific player. The Broncos rank second in the NFL in least dead cap money at $992,000, with a pro-rated portion of former kicker Matt Prater's signing bonus counting $812,000. In other words, nearly all of the Broncos' money is on the field. The NFL average in dead money per team is $8.8 million.

full article

http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci...ed-salary-2015

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

If it's true that Schmitz had been struggling, colquitt very well could have called their bluff knowing that he was their only option at punter. Players get stubborn about pay cuts all the time. He should be commended for handling this the way he did.

True but the very fact Schmitz is there sends pretty strong message that there is thought to replacing him. I couldn't agree more that Colquitt handled it well.

Originally Posted by Buff

LOL at the idea of a punter calling a team's bluff. Dominique Rodgers Cromartie - who was actually valuable and good at football - called Elway's bluff on a $50 million deal and got the offer rescinded. You're telling me a punter who sucked last year is going to take a hard line?

This wasn't a choice or a decision on Colquitt's part - Elway said "here is what we're going to pay you" and Colquitt said "Thank you, sir, that's very generous of you."

I mean his agent was good enough to make him the 9th highest paid player on the team in the first place, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that he could have helped Colquitt play hardball if he really wanted.

It's ok to compliment a guy without being totally cynical all the time, Buff.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

I mean his agent was good enough to make him the 9th highest paid player on the team in the first place, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that he could have helped Colquitt play hardball if he really wanted.

It's ok to compliment a guy without being totally cynical all the time, Buff.

Buff would imploded if he did that.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

I mean his agent was good enough to make him the 9th highest paid player on the team in the first place, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that he could have helped Colquitt play hardball if he really wanted.

It's ok to compliment a guy without being totally cynical all the time, Buff.

Actually yes, it is totally out of the realm of possibility. Did you see him punt last year? 24th in the league at a mile high. He had zero chance of making that salary this year. The guy is lucky to still have a job. The idea that he deserves praise for doing the team a solid is laughable.

I am a cynical a-hole, but in this instance I'd like to think I'm just being realistic.

Buffs right, but props to Brandon for saying the right things and not whining, despite him probably not having much of a choice in the matter.

I can only go by what I saw at today's practice. Schmitz has a far stronger leg. More hang time and distance overall. With Colquitt taking a pay cut, I have to wonder if they are planning on keeping him now. He also did all of the holding today for field goals in camp.

Originally Posted by Buff

Actually yes, it is totally out of the realm of possibility. Did you see him punt last year? 24th in the league at a mile high. He had zero chance of making that salary this year. The guy is lucky to still have a job. The idea that he deserves praise for doing the team a solid is laughable.

I am a cynical a-hole, but in this instance I'd like to think I'm just being realistic.

Being a cynical a-hole by your own admittance does little to help your credibility of being realistic in this instance Buff.

J/K

Originally Posted by TXBRONC

Being a cynical a-hole by your own admittance does little to help your credibility of realistic in this instance Buff.

J/K

I don't see the two as being mutually exclusive.