# Brady received $5 million of his $14.5 million signing bonus May 4. He'll receive $5 million July 15 and the remaining $4.5 million March 31, 2006.
# Brady gets $100,000 for completing at least 90 percent of the offseason workout program throughout the contract. He must repay the money if he performs less than 90 percent of the workouts. Brady gets an additional $440 per week if he completes 90 percent of the workouts in 2005 and $480 per week in 2006-10.
# The Patriots have to give Brady written notice on or before the third day of the '06 season that they're picking up the $12 million option bonus for that season. Brady would receive $5.5 million on or before July 15, 2006, and the remaining $6.5 million on or before July 15, 2007.
# Hard to imagine the ''Failure to Perform" clause will ever come into play, but it exists. Basically, if Brady has steroid, drug, or other off-field issues, he must return money based on the following schedule: 2005 -- 100 percent; '06 -- 83 percent; '07 -- 66.7 percent; '08 -- 50 percent; '09 -- 33.3 percent; '10 -- 16.7 percent.
# Brady must agree to ''up to 10 promotional and charitable appearances." This has become a norm in Patriots contracts. The team, of course, ''assumes all travel and out-of-town expenses."
# Brady also agrees to provide up to three hours a month to the ''club's internet website, radio production and/or television production."
# ''Player grants to the club exclusive rights to the use of digital images of player in uniform on the club's internet website."
# Here's some interesting language: ''Club and Player agree that Player will exhaust all reasonable efforts to establish relationships exclusively with Club's sponsors and media partners. If after exhausting all reasonable effort to work exclusively with Club sponsors and media partners and the player is unable to enter into a commercially reasonable relationship then player has a right to establish a relationship with a non-club affiliated entity."
# ''Player agrees that he will not, without prior written consent of Club, appear as a regularly scheduled guest or host of a radio or television production related to professional football for any local media other than a Club sponsored radio or television network."
# If the Patriots have picked up the '06 $12 million option, Brady -- providing he passes all physicals and is on the 80-man roster the first day of each league year -- will have $3 million bonuses awaiting him prior to the '08, '09, and '10 seasons, all payable on or before March 31.
# In the unlikely scenario the team doesn't pick up the $12 million option, Brady is protected pretty well with the ''skill guarantee" portion of the contract. He would have to meet minimal performance standards for this season (too long to describe in this space), but once he does, he's guaranteed his '06 salary of $4 million, his '07 salary of $6 million, and $2 million of his '08 salary of $5 million, even if he's cut. In other words, Brady could play one year, receive his $14.5 million bonus, and then also have an extra $12 million guaranteed if he never plays another down for the Patriots.
