To those who want Brunell to restructure:

In another thread, several posters wondered why Brunell hasn't restructured his deal to lower his cap number. There's a very good reason.

If he was to restructure without taking a paycut, we would be basically turning a portion of his 2005 earnings into signing bonus. While that would lower his cost for this year, it would also increase the cap hit when he is finally cut - and rest assured, he will be cut. Brunell signed a seven-year deal with an $8.6 million bonus. His base salary this year is only $1.5 million, which means that only about 700k could be converted into bonus - but it means that (hypothetically) the cap hit for cutting him next year goes from $5.75 million to $6.4 million, which we will then scream bloody murder about.

Now, if you are talking about a pay cut, then I'm all for it. Now get Brunell to agree.

Yes - paycut I think people want. No sense in pushing off the money we owe him - just means longer to cut him!

i hate brunell

I'd be happier with job cut, at his expense. We don't need him, draft a low round prospect and let the new guy ride the pine for a few years.

they can rework his deal pretty easy.

current deal
$2,005.00 $2,006.00 $2,007.00 $2,008.00 $2,009.00
sal $4,000.00 $5,200.00 $6,400.00 $7,600.00 $8,800.00
sb $1,433.33 $1,433.33 $1,433.33 $1,433.33 $1,433.33
ob $500.00

cap hit $5,933.33 $6,633.33 $7,833.33 $9,033.33 $10,233.33
release fee $7,666.67 $5,733.33 $4,300.00 $2,866.67 $1,433.33

new deal
sal $540.00 $5,200.00 $6,400.00 $7,600.00 $8,800.00
newb $692.00 $692.00 $692.00 $692.00 $692.00
sb $1,433.33 $1,433.33 $1,433.33 $1,433.33 $1,433.33
ob $500.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

cap hit $3,165.33 $7,325.33 $8,525.33 $9,725.33 $10,925.33
release fee $11,126.67 $8,501.33 $6,376.00 $4,250.67 $2,125.33

saves almost 2.8 this year...except i think the deadline is passed for making such a deal.

of course if we cut him post june 1 he'd cost us 1.433 mil this year and 5.733 next year. thats not too bad.

If they need a little breathing room to sign draft picks or other players closer to the season, sure, push a little bit till next year.
Of course the best scenario would be for him to take a pay cut, but I seriously doubt he would do it.

he's not going to do that. if he is that good of a person i would feel bad taking money from him honestly.

Signing Brunell was the worst FA move ever. He even cost us a draft pick!!!

Restructuring Brunel would be stupid. It only makes sense to restructure people who you see on the team long term. That would just make a bad cap deal worse.