01-13-2024, 09:50 PM
(01-12-2024, 08:59 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: The key part of restructuring a guy's contract is that you are pushing cap hits into the future. That means you are either commiting to them being on your team for multiple years or are going to eat a large dead cap hit if you want to eventually move on. They have to be under contract for at least 2 more years (or you have to do void years which means dead cap) and they need a good sized base salary as that is what you will be turning into a signing bonus to prorate.
So I would actually lean more towards Burrow ($10.7m base salary), Hendrickson ($14.8m base salary) and probably Cappa ($6m base salary) as the three guys who you are probable fine fully commiting in advance that you will keep them for their entire contract.
Capwise you could clear almost $8m with Burrow, $7.5m with Hendrickson, and $2.5m with Cappa if you needed to for about $18m more in 2024 cap space. ($24m if we cut Mixon)
Don't think our FO really operates like that, though. Never trying to get the most talent they can fit now to try to win. It also means more cash having to be spent now by them.
Great post. Thanks for the contract stuff. You'd think after so long with NOT winning the SB, they would think about doing things differently. Though maybe the Mixon deal signals a new day and a new way. Who Dey!
$24 mil would be huge. Space does not always translate into big time players. But I'd much rather create space by restructures than cutting guys who are still plus players (Hubbard, BJ Hill, Mixon, Karras, Cappa, Wilson, Pratt, etc). I have no issues with an extra year for Burrow, Cappa, or Trey.
And as much as I love the idea of nabbing Henry, cutting Mixin the yearcafter he restructured would be some cold sh!t. It would not exactly encourage others to follow suit.
