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To address Duds point of the increased salary cap:
To put Freeney's contract in 2005 cap numbers:
Freeney's contract is salary is 11% of the salary cap of $109 million.
The salary cap in 2005 was $85.5 million so 11% of that would be $9.405 million a year
Which is still pretty close to Brady's amount of $10 million a year, which was 11.7% of the cap in 2005.
If Brady were to sign a contract extension now for the same cap percentage of the cap in 2007 as he did in 2005 (11.7%) then he would of signed a 6 year $76.5 million deal.
So even if it's not more it's pretty damn close.
Although those numbers could be wrong because they aren't really the cap numbers but you get the point.
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If it actually worked that way. Contracts are almost always backloaded to the point where teams don't pay a large part of the contracts before re-structuring, trading, or releasing these players.
Yes, 6 years, $72M. Does not mean Freeney is making $12M/year.