Denver Broncos De Elvis Dumervil’S Pay Cut Papers Filed Late
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Several sources reported on Friday that defensive end Elvis Dumervil agreed to a 2013 pay cut that would reduce his base salary from $12 million to $8 million, per Albert Breer of the NFL Network. Reports indicated that Dumervil agreed to the pay cut a mere 30 minutes from the 4:00 p.m. ET deadline. At that point, the Broncos would have released Dumervil to avoid his salary strapped to their 2013 salary cap.
Here's the apparent problem, though -- according to Mike Klis of the Denver Post, Dumervil's agent, Marty Magid, failed to fax the paperwork back to the Broncos in time. So, the Broncos had to release Dumervil to avoid taking a $13.6 million total hit. Whoops!
"These are the deals that wrench your gut," Broncos executive vice-president John Elway told the Denver Post on Thursday. "As an ex-player, I hate to see that. I hated to see that happen to a teammate. And I hate having to do it, in the position I'm in. But I've got to do what's best for this football team.
"It's not all about dollars. But when it's way out of whack? Then it's so out of whack that you've got to say: That [salary] can't be it. Especially when you look at the market and what's out there now. It's so far out of whack. Hopefully, he realizes that."
That said, the Broncos wanted Dumervil back, and they made that very clear -- the estimation is that they will re-sign him quickly -- if they can. See, there's another problem with this snafu, as ESPN's Adam Schefter pointed out. By releasing Dumervil, the Broncos find themselves with a rather large dead money hit for 2013 -- almost $5 million. So, unless Dumervil wants to take an even larger pay cut, he may be out of the box altogether.
Klis reported that Elway, head coach John Fox, and defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio had all called the seven-year veteran to assure him that he has a bright future with a team that went 13-3 in the 2012 regular season, and made a lot of moves in the offseason to get over the bitter taste of their first-round playoff exit at the hands of the Baltimore Ravens.
Dumervil, selected in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft out of Louisville, amassed 11.0 sacks in 2012, and has 63.5 career sacks. He signed a six-year, $61.5 million contract extension in July, 2010, but suffered a torn pectoral muscle soon after that caused him to miss the entire 2012 season.
Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network reported on Tuesday that Dumervil agreed to take a pay cut, but that the proposal sent to the Broncos by Magid had not received a response.
In addition to Welker, the Broncos added former Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, ex-Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Terrance Knighton, ex-San Diego Chargers guard Louis Vasquez, and former Arizona Cardinals linebacker Stewart Bradley this week. They also put themselves on the hook for $20 million guaranteed in each of the next two league years when quarterback Peyton Manning passed his physical this week.
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Cracks me up Hahaha.
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I have the sense this was on purpose....that Dumervil didnt want to take the paycut but didnt want to get tagged with the label of "bad attitude" or "greedy", so the agent purposely did this and now he'll get paid by someone else.
I may be wrong, but that was my first impression.
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Zombo said:
BTW ... Who still faxes?
I've been strictly emailing contracts for about 8 years.
Z
My wife faxes the Amish all the time. They don't do computers, apparently a phone line and fax machine is ok though on a work basis.
Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind... -
i know people that still use dot matrix printers because of the need for duplicate copies(the old triplicate carbon paper forms), instead of just making duplicate copies.
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Elvis Dumervil. 4'9" 112 LBS. 864 Sacks.
I say we steal him, why not. Lets just field a defense of 7 OLBs and DEs.
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SUCK IT ELWAY
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Zombo said:
BTW ... Who still faxes?
I've been strictly emailing contracts for about 8 years.
Z
My wife faxes the Amish all the time. They don't do computers, apparently a phone line and fax machine is ok though on a work basis.
My wife faxes the Amish all the time. They don't do computers, apparently a phone line and fax machine is ok though on a work basis.
Figures with the hypocrite amish.
Anyone else have the feeling that the patriot's are going to snag him, wouldnt surprise me.
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Call him up, it can't hurt. We can offer him more than the Broncos can.. the action of cutting him put an additional 4M charge onto the Broncos cap for this year, so an offer of 6 should be able to get him. Can he cover TE's?
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Zombo said:
BTW ... Who still faxes?
I've been strictly emailing contracts for about 8 years.
Z
Then they would have to get on a computer open their email and print it out. Instead of it just printing as a fax....
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Zombo said:
BTW ... Who still faxes?
I've been strictly emailing contracts for about 8 years.
Z
My wife faxes the Amish all the time. They don't do computers, apparently a phone line and fax machine is ok though on a work basis.
My wife faxes the Amish all the time. They don't do computers, apparently a phone line and fax machine is ok though on a work basis.
Yea I think there is an Amish de playing for jacksonville making 8 mil a year
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Zombo said:
BTW ... Who still faxes?
I've been strictly emailing contracts for about 8 years.
Z
Then they would have to get on a computer open their email and print it out. Instead of it just printing as a fax....
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Zombo said:
BTW ... Who still faxes?
I've been strictly emailing contracts for about 8 years.
Z
Then they would have to get on a computer open their email and print it out. Instead of it just printing as a fax....
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Yeah, this is embarrasing... but not nearly as much as letting both Cribbs and Dawson, both pillars of the community and leaders on your team, walk. SMH
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Yeah, this is embarrasing... but not nearly as much as letting both Cribbs and Dawson, both pillars of the community and leaders on your team, walk. SMH
Yeah, this is embarrasing... but not nearly as much as letting both Cribbs and Dawson, both pillars of the community and leaders on your team, walk. SMH
Who fucking cares if they're pillars of the community. So we should over pay for Cribbs who is clearly on the downside of his career because the fans like him? That's a stupid ass way to run a team.
Dawson is a different story. I'd love to see him back in Cleveland but my guess is that he doesn't want to come back. His family lives in Texas and he probably wants to be closer to home. Who knows until he ends up signing somewhere because no one is saying anything about him.
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Yeah, this is embarrasing... but not nearly as much as letting both Cribbs and Dawson, both pillars of the community and leaders on your team, walk. SMH
Who fucking cares if they're pillars of the community. So we should over pay for Cribbs who is clearly on the downside of his career because the fans like him? That's a stupid ass way to run a team.
Dawson is a different story. I'd love to see him back in Cleveland but my guess is that he doesn't want to come back. His family lives in Texas and he probably wants to be closer to home. Who knows until he ends up signing somewhere because no one is saying anything about him.
Who fucking cares if they're pillars of the community. So we should over pay for Cribbs who is clearly on the downside of his career because the fans like him? That's a stupid ass way to run a team.
Dawson is a different story. I'd love to see him back in Cleveland but my guess is that he doesn't want to come back. His family lives in Texas and he probably wants to be closer to home. Who knows until he ends up signing somewhere because no one is saying anything about him.
Looking at stats below, I dont think Dawson has much choice as to where he could move so that he could be closer to his family, think for the sake of a 30 min flight he would rather stay with the Browns, just depends on the other hand whether the Browns want to resign him.
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Banner has been mum on the Dawson situation but said today that when Phil signs somewhere, it will be clear why he's been reluctant to address Phil Dawson's situation.
To me, that sounds as if Phil cannot decide whether to retire or move closer to home. It sounds to me like we don't have a dog in this fight.
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