Just A Simple Question Regarding This Year's FA

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(03-23-2022, 05:36 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: It's all about the structure of the contract and how much of it actually counts against the cap in any given season.

Contracts can be back-loaded, with big signing bonuses that are spread across the life of the contract, making the first few seasons easy to deal with and then tougher each season after, which leads to kicking the can down the road again with a "re-structuring of the deal." 

Add into that, performance based bonuses that can be added that don't count against the cap at all and well...a team can manipulate a contract if they are willing to put in the work and careful wording and getting the player to agree to certain terms.

They eventually count when they're paid out, don't they?

Otherwise, it would be easy to manipulate the cap by just signing player to a vet minimum and then saying "you get a 10 million dollar bonus if you rush for two yards in a season."