{"id":20873,"date":"2013-07-23T11:28:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T15:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=20873"},"modified":"2013-07-23T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T15:28:46","slug":"jets-news-team-options-at-wide-receiver-geno-smiths-phony-contract-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2013\/07\/23\/jets-news-team-options-at-wide-receiver-geno-smiths-phony-contract-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets News: Team Options At Wide Receiver & Geno Smith’s Phony Contract Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wide Receiver Tryouts:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The New York Jets<\/a> brought in some wide receivers for a workout yesterday.\u00a0 <\/span>Most notably former Cowboy\/Jaguars WR Laurent Robinson and Colts WR Austin Collie but both receivers have a history of concussion issues which cause a significant loss in 2012 playing time. Neither Robinson nor Collie left the tryout with a contract.<\/p>\n

With Santonio Holmes<\/a>\u2019 availability in question, as he still rehabilitates from a Lisfranc injury suffered last year, the Jets remain thin at the receiver position.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

It appears that general manager John Idzik will have to continue to look at brining in depth.\u00a0 <\/span>Fan favorite former Jet Braylon Edwards and\/or ex-Patriot Brandon Lloyd are often mentioned as possible candidates to get a tryout with the team but there has been no movement as of right now.<\/p>\n

Geno Smith\u2019s Contract Explained:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

It has been reported that a larger than usual portion of rookie quarterback Geno Smith\u2019s salary<\/a> is tied to his participation in the offseason workout program.\u00a0 <\/span>This is so much beyond a non-story it shames me to even mention it but would like to explain why this means nothing.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Most teams offer a workout bonus as an incentive for players to come to voluntary activities.\u00a0 <\/span>Under the NFL\u2019s rookie wage system a drafted player\u2019s salary, is for the most part, already set in the four year contract they receive.\u00a0 <\/span>Smith has no guaranteed salary therefore it does not matter how it gets paid as long as he receives the full allotted amount allowed under the wage scale.<\/p>\n

Workout bonuses count as salary, so say Smith<\/a> is allotted a $1.25 million salary for 2015.\u00a0 <\/span>If he gets a $250,000 workout bonus he\u2019ll get $1 million in base, paid throughout the season, salary so he will get paid the full amount.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The amount of the workout bonus is irrelevant and saying the Jets need to ensure Smith shows up for offseason workouts by insisting upon a high bonus is ridicules as well.\u00a0 Smith should and will attend all voluntary workouts anyway, so he\u2019ll receive his offseason bonus as long as he remains with the team.\u00a0 <\/span>What if the workout bonus was $50,000 would Smith just sit home and say, \u201cI don\u2019t need to workout for a lousy $50,000?\u201d<\/p>\n

Also the payment of a workout bonus are usually before or soon into the season while base salary is paid over the year broken into 17 week increments.\u00a0 <\/span>By taking a bigger bonus Smith receives a portion of his salary quicker than if he waited for the season payouts.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Wide Receiver Tryouts: The New York Jets brought in some wide receivers for a workout yesterday.\u00a0 Most notably former Cowboy\/Jaguars WR Laurent Robinson and Colts WR Austin Collie but both receivers have a history of concussion issues which cause a significant loss in 2012 playing time. Neither Robinson nor Collie left the tryout with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":20529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1337,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/geno-smith-back-pedal1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-5qF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20873"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20884,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20873\/revisions\/20884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}