91.   Many companies attempt to lure electrical engineers with lucrative signing bonuses and stock options, according to Elizabeth L. Wright, director of government relations for Texas Instruments.

92.   Most of the negotiating is on the signing bonuses.

93.   Most of those contracts included huge signing bonuses to entice a player to accept a smaller base salary, thus making the salary-cap hit smaller.

94.   No more eight-digit signing bonuses.

95.   Not only are most of their base salaries not guaranteed, but their signing bonuses are usually low, making these players expendable.

96.   Notes Quarterback Boomer Esiason did not receive a signing bonus from the Cardinals.

97.   Normally, a team can deflect the financial hit of a huge signing bonus by prorating it over the length of the contract.

98.   Now they issue massive, pro-rated signing bonuses that enable them to fiddle with the cap.

99.   Now, the pro-rated signing bonus in the first four years is not larger than the base salary.

100.   Nothing is guaranteed ... beyond his signing bonus.