Is this 2004 déjà vu?

[BigRock]

Originally Posted by BossChief

sorry for being rude, but that's ignorant.

It's not ignorant at all. Restructuring contracts pushes the money into later years. Which is well and good if the guy's going to be around, but 3 of the top 4 cap hits are Bowe, Hali, and Flowers. How many of those three do you see being on this team in two years? I say maybe one. I could see two of them not being here next year, depending on how their 2014 goes.

If you push money into future years on guys who aren't around for those future years, you end up with dead money. Even with the increases in the cap this year, teams with lots of dead money were having to cut guys off their roster just to free up cap space. So the cap increases aren't a magic elixir.

The bill will come due eventually. You want to push it back because you want gratification today. That's OK, but that doesn't mean it's a foolproof plan with no consequences.