would love some clarification on this part of the deal. Because what I had heard was that his ability to cancel the deal was based on if he is actually playing or not. It was reported that Foles wants to be a starter so on the slim chance that Mitch figures it out and plays well that gives Foles the option to cancel the deal and find a team he can be a starter for if the Bears stick with Mitch going forward. But if Foles wins the job (like what will probably happen) as long as he is the starting QB then he is here and cant cancel the deal.
Yeah hadn't heard that as that would be an interesting clause. That would seem weird to me because under the old deal if he played well, he would get the following with no need to prove himself.
2020 - $15.6
2021 - $20.6
2022 - $20.7
That is without worrying about hitting any incentives. By contrast, here is what he would now be getting.
2020 - $8m so $7.6m less with the ability to earn $6m more to get to $14m which would still be $1.6m less than what he would get otherwise.
2021 - If he hit all the incentives then he would get $14m so $6m more with ability to earn $6m more in incentives to get to $20m.
2022 - If he hit all the incentives then he would get $20m so $750k more with ability to earn $6m more in incentives to get to $26m.
So basically with that structure that would be a lot of money to put at risk based on incentives that he may not risk and wouldn't really be any upside to him except in the final year where he hit all the incentives for all 3 years he could max out at $26 million. Anything is possible but seems really odd to me if I were his agent.
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