01-27-2017, 09:11 AM
(01-26-2017, 11:57 PM)CanadianBengal Wrote: Actually Bengals are the least creative team in how they structure their salaries. That is not a criticism. They do not give huge signing bonuses to push money into the later years. That is why they rarely have dead money. They avoid paying signing bonuses by giving a high salary in the first year. Basically they say to the player we do not need on give you a signing bonus because we will honour the full length of contract. They keep it pretty simple to avoid being in cap hell.
They actually are very creative in how they structure them. Restructuring isn't creative it's a shell game of moving credit card balances between cards setting you up for a future issue. The heavy guaranteed salary up front is smart over a signing bonus+ salary that creates the same basic amount of money because if they gave a signing bonus to equal the same first year salary, if they ever cut them the signing bonus counts against the cap in an accelerated form based on the proration of the remaining years..
