Twitter: Cowboys restructure Witten's contract

[xwalker]

Maybe 2019 also with his contract now.

The restructure has no bearing on whether they keep him in 2019. If Witten is cut after this season, he will have received exactly the same amount of money with or without the restructure.

 

[nightrain]

Maybe 2019 also with his contract now.

Next year Wit will have a cap hit north of $7.5M and a dead cap hit of $3.5M if he is not with the team. The Cowboys will have over $15M in restructured bonus money on the books in 2019 (as of today). The two SB teams have a cumulative restructured bonus cost of $7M in 2019.The Raiders and Skins, for comparison sake, have $zero.

 

[Hennessy_King]

Not liking this only because if he isn't here much longer we will be eating dead money again.

I like the Fleming move and the other moves so far. I just was hoping they would create space aside from wittens contract

 

[Iron_Man]

That means he is definitely staying for 2018.

Witten will be here until he turns 65.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Lather. Rinse. Repeat

There will always be big contracts to restructure

BTW listening to you makes me sound smarter.

 

[Cowboysheelsreds053]

Big salary increase for Jeff Heath incoming

H--- we did TC!

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

The Cowboys have restructured the contract of 11-time Pro Bowl tight end Jason Witten, creating roughly $3.5 million in salary cap space, according to sources. Witten is the second contract the Cowboys have re-worked in the last week, along with Pro Bowl center Travis Frederick, which created nearly $7 million in cap room.

For reals, petulant fan?
If so, someone somewhere lit a fire under Stephen.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

BTW listening to you makes me sound smarter.

A dump truck driving in your alley makes you smarter.
Heh.
Heh.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Vaccaro or Fleming. Hmmmmm

V becomes a surprise signing and suddenly we can compete with the Eagles.
Vaccaro would love to play in Texas again.

 

[buybuydandavis]

Big salary increase for Jeff Heath incoming

Lay the offerings at the foot of The GOAT!

 

[Nightman]

Next year Wit will have a cap hit north of $7.5M and a dead cap hit of $3.5M if he is not with the team. The Cowboys will have over $15M in restructured bonus money on the books in 2019 (as of today). The two SB teams have a cumulative restructured bonus cost of $7M in 2019.The Raiders and Skins, for comparison sake, have $zero.

Not sure what you mean......only OScan has any Dead Money and it is only 1.6m

But we also have 68m in cap space before any cuts or restructures......If we need space it will be even easier to create

ps - The Eagles have 724k in space next year

 

[fansince68]

So...why cut Dez pay instead of a restructure? Personally I feel both he and Witten have had a gradual decline in performance over the last few seasons.

 

[Cowpolk]

Cameron Fleming in 3, 2, 1.....

When we restructure at this time of year someone is being signed so prolly

 

[fansince68]

This restructure potentially does hurt....he was getting paid too much already but he had no dead money. If they did the usual and cut his salary to 1m and made the rest a SB it just adds dead money down the road.

I know, I know....it all gets accounted for at some point, but they could have just told him take a pay cut to 2-3m or hit the road and saved cap space and not put dead money out there.

Kinda like they may do with Dez. Both should be asked to take a pay cut for the sake of improving the team. I will really be upset if we restructure Crawfords..contract.

 

[Cowpolk]

Next year Wit will have a cap hit north of $7.5M and a dead cap hit of $3.5M if he is not with the team. The Cowboys will have over $15M in restructured bonus money on the books in 2019 (as of today). The two SB teams have a cumulative restructured bonus cost of $7M in 2019.The Raiders and Skins, for comparison sake, have $zero.

And we will restructure his contract again to sign someone we want and he will keep on keppin on and playing

 

[fansince68]

And taking 100% of the snaps at TE.

Ughh!!! I need a "hate" button just for that thought. Lol

 

[fansince68]

If he takes a pay cut they still have to restructure the contract.

Restructure doesn't have to mean more dead money.

Restructuring a contract involves changing the method of payment that equals to satisfying an "agreed upon" amount. The can be NO pay cut in this situation . Reworking a contract can allow for an "agreeded upon" cut or reduction in pay.

 

[nightrain]

Not sure what you mean......only OScan has any Dead Money and it is only 1.6m

But we also have 68m in cap space before any cuts or restructures......If we need space it will be even easier to create

ps - The Eagles have 724k in space next year

I am looking at the restructured money that has been deferred to future years. This has long been an issue for the Cowboys and it seems there is no end in sight with players like Martin, Zeke, DLaw, Irving and Dak all in line for big paydays in the coming year or two.


http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cap/2019/

 

[MyFairLady]

I can't even look at those sites anymore. Seeing how the money breaks down is depressing. All I see is a salary cap consumed by the failed attempts of the past to "win now".

 

[BlindFaith]

Restructuring a contract involves changing the method of payment that equals to satisfying an "agreed upon" amount. The can be NO pay cut in this situation . Reworking a contract can allow for an "agreeded upon" cut or reduction in pay.

I wasn't insinuating we could just arbitrarily reduce his salary. Of course he would have to agree to it.

This smells like a Jerry, loyal to a fault move.