11-27-2018, 10:40 AM
(11-27-2018, 10:34 AM)ochocincos Wrote: Steelers also restructure contracts to help stay under the cap, which is something you never see the Bengals do.
It is a double edged sword. The salary gets converted to signing bonus and that signing bonus is prorated across the life of the deal making for more of a hit on the later years. The hope is that the year that all comes due you have a bunch of young guys who don't need resigned. It can work but teams have been bitten by it before. People often blame the Flacco deal for dismantling the Ravens, but it was actually the fact they broke from their in house rule of not restructuring and restructured a bunch of deals to make the Flacco thing work. What ended up happening is a lot of those deals didn't pan out and they were stuck, just now climbing out from under it the last year or two. Steelers haven't tripped over it yet, but GM's know it can bite you.
It's a tool, but the Steelers success with it is the exception not really the norm.
