Jerry Jones on Carr

[Nightman]

It is. He has a contract that pays him 8m this year and 9m next year. Unless DAL is offering more money there is no reason to answer the phone.

No, what Dallas has to do is guarantee him more money than he is supposed to make this year. You pick up the phone because even with the Cowboys saying you are going to be on the team this year, there is no guarantee you are going to see any of that $9 million next year.

I'm not necessarily a fan of doing that because it creates more guaranteed money, but it is the only way for both the team and Carr to come out winners. He knows he's getting $8 million in base pay this year with Jones saying he's going to be on the team, so he has no incentive to reduce that sum. His incentive to reduce his base pay next year is part of it being guaranteed to him now or paid to him now as bonus.

Fans seem to be taking a now view of his contract while it appears with what Jones is saying that Dallas might be looking at both years remaining on his deal and trying to figure out how to bring the total down. Even if he only agreed to a $12 million guarantee, that would shave $5 million off his overall deal, which is still a nice cap savings.

It's not a restructure because that would just be moving all the money he's making around and it's not an extension because no years are added, it's a reduction in pay that creates pluses for both parties.

That would be offering more money. He is due 0m in guaranteed and your plan is offering 12m. That is a gigantic increase that is usually reserved for a veteran that is outplaying his contract, not one that is on the verge of being cut.

 

[gimmesix]

That would be offering more money. He is due 0m in guaranteed and your plan is offering 12m. That is a gigantic increase that is usually reserved for a veteran that is outplaying his contract, not one that is on the verge of being cut.

If your contract says you are to receive $17 million and your employer says he'll pay you $12 million instead, that's a pay cut. The guaranteed money only makes it likely that Carr would play out his contract because of the cap hit Dallas would take for cutting him. That's the incentive for Carr to take $5 million less than he's agreed to.

I'd try to get him to take less than that, but I'm not sure he can be sold on essentially working for less than $4 million next year. Maybe knowing the money would be guaranteed could get him to do it, though.

I think your looking at this from the standpoint of what can we offer him that would make it easier to cut him while Dallas is looking at it from the standpoint of what can we offer him that would make it easier to keep him. You are looking at a single year while his remaining contract is for two years, and that's what Dallas has to consider if it isn't cutting him this year, which Jones has said it isn't.