03-16-2021, 09:56 AM
(03-16-2021, 09:44 AM)spazz70 Wrote: Just a question because it is all doom and gloom in here....there is one player at least that can change things....IF this were to play out....LT Trent Williams, overpay him NOW. Move Jonah to LG and get Sewell at 5 to play RT. Would any of you be happy? All hope is not lost....big money players going off the board and i believe a lot that just simply do not want to play here.
They aren't going to pay 23-24 million per year to Williams. Even beyond that, the same issue we saw with Lawson would come up again and that is upfront money, i.e. signing bonus. If you look at how we structured Hendrickson's deal it shows a team who may be cash strapped (not cap that is different) and looked to push paying large sums of money off. Signing bonuses get paid out in one lump sum, whereas salaries get paid out weekly. By doing Hendrickson's deal the way they did they can essentially wait until they can generate more revenue in the season to pay out the cash to him versus paying Lawson the larger signing bonus right now.
People need to understand something, there is cap poor in the NFL and cash poor. If you are cap poor you can essentially buy it with cash via signing bonuses and restructuring. If you are a team who is cash poor you are simply screwed and at a competitive disadvantage. Few people talk about the cash issues because the valuations of teams are so high but teams like ours don't have the massive liquid cash reserves to pay some of these massive signing bonuses other teams pay. It makes sense coming out of a pandemic year with lower revenue than expected that we are trying to take approaches to conserve cash. When people talk about the Bates extension they just focus on his cap numbers but there will most likely be a very large cash expenditure there that they must account for as well.
I'd look for more moves with structures similar to Hendrickson which use larger salaries in year one to act as pseudo guaranteed money since you aren't cutting anyone in their first year.
