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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
What's laughable is you think that Bowe and Hali would agree to restructure guaranteed money into a small signing bonus like that. If you wait one year, THEN you can start talking about the Chiefs restructuring with a reasonable signing bonus.
If I'm Hali's agent and I know Hali is basically guaranteed $11M this year (he knows he won't get cut), then why in the world would I settle for only an $11M signing bonus?
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You obviously don't even understand how restructures work.
Bowe has a base salary of 8.75 million this year that he will get in 16 installments as game checks. The veteran minimum for a 7 year veteran is 720,000.
Restructuring his deal means instead of paying him game checks, we give him one check for 8 million and drop his base salary to the vet minimum. That 8 million then gets spread over the course of the remaining years of his contract, in this case 4 years.
The player has no reason to say no and it clears that 8 million off the current years salary cap.
With the facts being that the salary cap is increasing at a crazy amount and the advanced age of a large part of our core group of layers is getting to the prime years and even exiting those prime years, wouldn't you have to agree that NOW would be a great time to not nessesarily go "all in" but AT LEAST RAISE THE POT?
FFS