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Are you going to hold management to their word?
Here's why NFL guys want to re-negotiate a year or two after they sign--it's because there isn't a single, solitary player in the NFL whose contract is guaranteed. Say a guy signs a 5 year contract for 30 million. He's going to get x million up front as a signing bonus. But he's not going to get $6 million a year all five years. He might get $2 mil the first, then maybe $4 mil the second. Then the contact is going to be structured so 24 of the 30 million is "backloaded"--ie, payable during the last 3 years of the deal at 8 mil per. Which he's never going to see because he's going to be a "cap cut" after year 2.
Now, I understand that to us poor schmucks making 5 or at most "low 6" figures a year, 4 mil as oppposed to 6 mil seems silly. But the funny thing is, we all want to be paid what we're worth within our own line of work. We expect to be rewarded for productive work, and to not get a raise or a bonus if our performance sucked. I don't care how much you make---if you pride yourself on doing what you do for a living well, you want recognition and to be paid accordingly by your boss.
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