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Originally Posted by BossChief
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
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So Bowe turns into a $16M cap hit next year, a $15M cap hit the next year. And you've further guaranteed every dollar of those contracts because it's even MORE expensive to cut him. Why do you think we're overpaying Flowers right now? Hali… even worse idea. His agent isn't going to agree to some measly restructure for a player negotiating a final contract. So it's not even in the conversation.
What you're suggesting are good ideas for a team that goes all in on winning now. That's fine. But there are long-term consequences. I would rather use our existing cap to keep Houston, Berry, and Smith before their contracts balloon due to the new caps.