All The Current Restructures and What It Will Cost in the Future

[Bluestang]

Originally Posted by Risen Star

If it's just the way teams do business, why are the Cowboys always having to create room restructuring contracts every year just to fund an offseason? They must not do business like that in Philly, New England, Green Bay and many others.

The Patriots absolutely had to massage Brady's contract in order to free up cap space so that they can keep their own. They also carried about $22.2M in dead money last year.

What's funny is that Brady has been doing this since 2010:

2005 - Signed a 6 year $60M contract
2010 - Signed a 5 year extension for $78.5M
2012 - Restructured base salary from $5.75M to $950K
2013 - Signed 3 year extension for $27M


The reason we don't see every team in the NFL restructure contracts is because the lesser popular teams can't afford to do so. While the Cowboys, Patriots, Steelers, Saints, etc are restructuring contracts to free up cap space they are also handing out millions to the players. Not every team in the NFL can afford to do that and still operate on the "plus-side" of the ledger.

[Beast_from_East]

Originally Posted by Bluestang

The Patriots absolutely had to massage Brady's contract in order to free up cap space so that they can keep their own. They also carried about $22.2M in dead money last year.

What's funny is that Brady has been doing this since 2010:

2005 - Signed a 6 year $60M contract
2010 - Signed a 5 year extension for $78.5M
2012 - Restructured base salary from $5.75M to $950K
2013 - Signed 3 year extension for $27M


The reason we don't see every team in the NFL restructure contracts is because the lesser popular teams can't afford to do so. While the Cowboys, Patriots, Steelers, Saints, etc are restructuring contracts to free up cap space they are also handing out millions to the players. Not every team in the NFL can afford to do that and still operate on the "plus-side" of the ledger.

Exactly.

The big market teams for the most part are the teams that restructure the most because of finances.

The small market teams, like Tennessee for example, simply cannot afford to pay out millions and millons of dollars by converting salary to signing bonus in order to restructure.

[big dog cowboy]

Originally Posted by T-RO

Where Miami enjoys $35 mil in free space and the Pats $18 mil....we sat at 18 in the red until the past few days. The Front Office is crazily trying to just survive.

All thses restructures are built into the contracts already. How is that "crazily trying to just survive" as you put it?

[Fla Cowpoke]

So, being 35m under the cap like some teams is good when they keep turning in non winning seasons? I mean, who wouldn't rather be like the Dolphins....they have a crappy record but at least they aren't overpaying for it.

Some teams are clearly in it to make money, whether that means winning or not.

Jones pays the most money out year in and year out regardless of cap space and has never been afraid to pay money to try and improve.

The whole pushing money into the future has become status quo in the league and is more likely to occur with the teams actually trying to win a championship than the teams just happy to be part of the NFL.