All that crap about how much money he was signed to and he sees virtually none of it, LOL. Only a few of us were talking about that then though, LOL
Seahawks Insider - New contract for Burleson
There are two kinds of contract numbers: technically correct ones, and real ones. The deal Nate Burleson signed with Seattle last year was technically for seven years and $49 million. The real numbers were four years and $14.5 million. He was never going to get the final three years and $34.5 million unless the Vikings matched the offer, thereby triggering poison pills that would have forced Minnesota to guarantee the full value.
The Vikings did not match. Burleson and the Seahawks revisited his deal this offseason. They made the technical numbers match the real numbers. Burleson signed a new deal that runs through the 2009 season, with a voidable year in 2010. "I knew there would be a point in my career here as a Seahawk when I would adjust my deal," he said. "There was a lot of back-end dollars I knew I wasn't going to see and they knew I wasn't going to see," Burleson said. "I'm a low-controversy guy, so if you ask me to do something and obviously it wasn't changing where I stood financially with this organization, I was OK with it."
That's the thing. Burleson will make no less money even though he wiped out the final two years of this deal. The Hawks would have reworked the deal or released Burleson before the inflated back-end money came due. Now they won't have to do either. Burleson received a $4 million signing bonus and $1.25 million base salary last season. He gets $2.75 million in salary this season, followed by $3.25 million in 2008, 2009 and the voidable 2010 season.
New contract for Burleson
New contract for Burleson
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