no_cloning

saintswhodi, the system of signing bonuses pretty much guarantees that players don't get a raw deal. They may get cut when they reach the last 2 years of a contract with ridiculous cap numbers, but even underperformers are often kept on a team because of the money invested in them.

Regarding the problem at hand, I may be reaching a little high, but I honestly believe that honoring the contracts the outgoing administration agreed to - or breaking them - is a problem of democracy. It's way more problematic in international treaties, say the Kyoto Protocol, where you have many players and just when everybody could agree to a compromise there's an election and although the contracts have been signed by 100 nations they could as well be ripped or burned because the most important country doesn't honor it.
Anyway, back to Blanco and Foster. Foster's contract with Benson isn't that of a lunatic, it's just very sweet for the Saints owner. And Blanco isn't about to just ignore it, she wants to renegotiate. She has every right to. And Benson has every right to wait for an offer that he likes.

Could someone explain to me exactly how the 2007 escape clause works? The state says "Deal's off", they don't have to pay anymore and the Saints are free to move? Isn't that basically what would happen if they simply refused to pay? Granted that would look worse ...