Shawn Springs Salary Cap Status

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Originally Posted by That Guy

plenty of players have refused simple restructures cause they don't like teams screwing with their contracts... we had that issue during spurrier. other players have also refused due to the fact that kicking the money down the road makes getting cut (and not seeing the high end year salaries) much more likely.

while most players don't care, both issues have happened here in the past, though i forget the names.

Screwing with the contracts?? A simple restructure, as the Skins do, consists only of changing base salary into signing bonus. You take the $5 million you owe the player during the season, and give it to him sooner. Um, what the hell's not to like?

What players have previously refused is a RENEGOTIATION, not a restructure. Pay cuts, changing $ amounts in given years, extensions for lower $ per year, those kinds of things give players pause. But not the kind of restructure we're talking here in Springs' case.