This is not at all about the amount of money: it stays the same regardless.
It is strictly about how it gets paid out.

There is no argument over the amount of salary, bonus, or even the amount guaranteed.
This is strictly about the way the SB is paid out and if the player is cut or traded if he gets to double dip on guaranteed money.

The idea of his agents that guaranteed means guaranteed is right. In an offset the player still gets 100% of his guaranteed money. It is only that some might come from a different team.

Whose greed is it that the player wants to be able to get MORE than the guaranteed amount if he can't cut the mustard and gets let go?

I find this entire thing absurd, just as Chargers management says. The player wants the Chargers to completely change the way they do business for this one player.....a DE (who will really play OL.

And BTW: despite what Mom says, there was never a public hint prior to the draft that Bosa didn't want to play for the Bolts, nor that he told the Bolts that. It is only now that he's throwing a tantrum that we hear this sort of thing.

Chargers need to let him swing. They need to not even attempt to negotiate. Let Bosa come to them. It's the Golden Rule: they have the gold.....and he wants some.

Yes, it hurts when your high 1st rounder abandons ship. But it'll hurt the player a lot more if he refuses to sign this year and goes back into the draft. It is hard to imagine he'd be even top 10. Who'd want to take the chance? And an entire year away from football and organized team activity? Entirely different than for a player who is injured and rehabbing. The injured player continues to learn the playbook, watches film, bonds with the team, is on a team program, etc.

Very foolish young man who has miscalculated his leverage.