Westbrook Signs!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

See above, Z.  They made the cutoff for this year.

[Eaglez]

This rules.  Glad they were able to get this done to count a bunch of it against THIS year's cap.

Question answered.

[PhillyGirl]

I'm glad the Eagles rewarded the class acts. Hopefully this will manifest into the whole team being productive this evening.

Great news.

Now can the Eagles count any of this salary against the cap this year? Or has that deadline passed?

I think tomorrow was the cutoff? Or the 10th? Something in early November. LOL

[MURP]

good.  glad that nonsense is over. 

[Wingspan]

i was thinking of going out and getting a westy jersey now. but then i remembered my curse, so i said forget it.

but this is great news. could this be the first contract signing, that got a little public and the eagles has some pushback from the player...that actually worked out in the end (under reid and banner)?

[ice grillin you]

at least TO did something positive for the team this year

[Wingspan]

HAHA

westbrook just got TO's roster bonus he was due in march

[Eaglez]

This is awesome. I'm glad that we got to use hopefully a good chunk of the empty cap room this year. That just makes this deal extra sweet.

Hopefully they loaded his base year to be counted against this year's cap so we will still have ample room come next season. We should have a ton of space after we let go of TO's option.

[MURP]

yeah they still were under the date for this years cap which makes it that much better.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Hopefully they loaded his base year to be counted against this year's cap so we will still have ample room come next season.

That's a given.  I would guess at least $5 mill of his bonus is a roster bonus.  At least.

[Rome]

Westbrook sucks.

Cut him!

[Eaglez]

Hopefully they loaded his base year to be counted against this year's cap so we will still have ample room come next season.

That's a given.  I would guess at least $5 mill of his bonus is a roster bonus.  At least.

Yeah. All that money up front I'm sure made Westy eager to sign on that dotted line.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

It makes no difference to Westbrook whether his bonus is structured as a SIGNING bonus or an initial ROSTER bonus.  He still gets all of it up front.  The only difference is that a roster bonus doesn't pro-rate over the life of the deal.

[BobbyT]

Get yo popcorn ready........wait a sec where did hear that before?

[AP]

Beautiful! Im am glad that one chapter of the Eagles soap opera is closed