Thread: Joe Flacco is now a Bronco

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

Lol - just read about 4 pages of this thread - good work Jaded, at one point you nearly had me believing Flacco woudl be good as a number 2 in Denver next year, then i remembered that he stunk it up like a number 2 this year and i can't wait to see the back of the bert and ernie quit on the team **** that he is!

I think my favourite part was the advocating for Teebs to return with a serious argument from several posters

Tell you what though - i have watched the highlights, now and that boy Lock has potential! Loved his post game comment about bringing legends back in reference to the Buzz Lightyear move - but can't believe he was born after the first toy story was released!!!

I thought you loved hoes, even pouty hoes?

Originally Posted by Jaded

I thought you loved hoes, even pouty hoes?

I do, but i don’t pay them to play qb

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

I do, but i don’t pay them to play qb

Maybe you should try it.

Drew Lock is a geek, I love it.

Big arm, funny, smart. We killed it.

Did we cut Flacco yet? I hate that guy.

Den should cut him Monday morning.

As in yesterday

I'm sure the date he gets cut will come with various cap implications, so no point in cutting him until it makes the most financial sense to do so.

Originally Posted by Timmy!

Big arm, funny, smart. We killed it.

Dreamy eyes... wait, uh, fast....

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

I'm sure the date he gets cut will come with various cap implications, so no point in cutting him until it makes the most financial sense to do so.

Nope, no implications. The only time it would be an issue is if he is on the week 1 roster next year, since as a vested veteran his salary would be fully guaranteed. Otherwise, doesn't really matter whether they cut him this year, or next year pre-week 1.

Originally Posted by Tned

Nope, no implications. The only time it would be an issue is if he is on the week 1 roster next year, since as a vested veteran his salary would be fully guaranteed. Otherwise, doesn't really matter whether they cut him this year, or next year pre-week 1.

Wouldn't it change things if he retired or if he couldn't physically play and there were an injury settlement? If any of those things are a possibility, might as well wait and see what happens on that front.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

Wouldn't it change things if he retired or if he couldn't physically play and there were an injury settlement? If any of those things are a possibility, might as well wait and see what happens on that front.

While technically if he was to retire the Broncos might ask for his "signing bonus" back, I think it's very unlikely they would do so. The reason for this is that Flacco converted his 2019 salary into a signing bonus in order to give the team more flexibility to resign existing players or sign free agents (due to injuries) this year. If the Broncos were to take the position that it was a "signing bonus" and force Flacco to refund it, when in fact it was his 2019 salary, that would not sit well with other veterans and they probably would get no other player to do it in the future.

So, I can't imagine any scenario where the Broncos would force Flacco to refund that signing bonus, which was in fact his 2019 salary. It's even possible under the CBA that the Broncos can't even force the refund in this type of a restructure, but I don't have the CBA handy to take a look. Regardless, I can't see the Broncos doing it.

As to injury settlement, that's used in lieu of IR if the team wants to cut ties with a player that say gets hurt early in the year and doesn't want to pay the player his full salary and they then will negotiate some in between, which is typically equal to how long the injury is expected to heal. I don't think that comes into play here.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

Wouldn't it change things if he retired or if he couldn't physically play and there were an injury settlement? If any of those things are a possibility, might as well wait and see what happens on that front.

He hasn't been physically able to play for 4 years. Have you seen him try?