JoeyB willing to restructure

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I hope my learning on the fly about contracts structure and contract guarantee is not boring anyone.

To recap using signing tee to a long term deal I learned a few things:
1. Bengals can allocate signing bonus however they like. It does not have to be the same each year. I saw it in Joe's structure. if they gave Tee a 25 million dollar signing bonus for a 4 year contract, they could allocate towards yearly cap as follows:
Year 1 - 2 million
Year 2 - 3 million
Year 3 - 6 million
Year 4 - 9 million
The less money has in cap year, the lower the allocation to the yearly cap number lower.

2. Bengals can escalate Tees guaranteed portion. They could do over guarantee of 50 million, but allocate as follows:
Sign at contract guarantee 35 million
After year 2 add 7 million to guarantee
After year 3 add 8 million to guarantee

Important because if he has injury issues in first 2 years, can cut him or trade him and not eat a lot of dead cap.

Maybe this will ease some concerns if Bengals decide to sign Tee long term