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Originally Posted by FRPLG
Ok everyone listen up.
A typical restructure in the NFL means a player takes his upcoming season's base salary, which is not guaranteed, and reduces it to the vet min. He then takes the remaining part and turns it into a bonus, which is guaranteed. It costs no more money to the team and doesn't reduce the money that the player makes. But it does allow the player to get his salary all at once rather than as game checks which many players look at as a benefit.
Restructures like this ALWAYS benefit the player. There's no other way to look at it.
Some teams don't ever do this but the Skins do it quite often and usually they include an incentive like a little bit extra in the converted salary to bonus.
The situation with Springs is this. They asked him for a reduction in pay. They did not ask him to do a typical restructure. How do we know this? Because he said no. He wouldn't say no to having his UNguaranteed money turned into guaranteed money.
And not all of his money is currently guaranteed. That is not even possible with the CBA. Every player has a minimum salary that he has to receive based on how long he has been in the league. Salaries are not guaranteed.
That is all.
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Additionally, we would have no reason to want to restructure Springs, pushing money into future years, when in all likelyhood, he's in his final year here.
Asking for a pay cut makes sense, but you can't expect a player who has market value like Springs does to comply.