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Originally Posted by htismaqe
That is truly bizarre.
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Chiefs did something similar in Tamba's restructure; something like $4 million guaranteed in an automatically void deal. It would've allowed them to restructure that deal in a way that could've taken that cap hit and pushed it forward. Instead they dicked around, the deal voided and the bonus they were looking to push hit the cap. Then they gave him a new contract AND took the dead money hit.
It was extremely stupid and almost certainly facilitated by bad news in Houston's rehab. That's how you always knew that the Chiefs fully intended to let Hali walk instead of giving him that last contract - had they meant to keep him around, they'd have never let that voidable period hit. They panicked after getting bad news on Houston and took a double whammy because of it.
It was strictly a cap mechanism though I'm not sure how that would work here.