Because in order to sign him, we have to do some restructuring and tinkering with other contracts already on the books to free up however much money is necessary for his cap hit. If we didn't sign him, we wouldn't be doing any restructuring or tinkering because it wouldn't be necessary and we wouldn't have anything more than the $2-3 million we had before this signing, after the Lee signing.
More than anything else this is just paying him retroactively for last season. Which means that this year he's only making 3 mil It's only a one year deal at least; meaning shat(is this a word?) bed can be jettisoned.
I'm glad this is done but I'm lukewarm on this. Glad for this year but now this guy has high expectations on him to succeed again. Hoping he can perform close to what he did last year otherwise people are going to hate him....BUT he didn't even miss a practice so oh well. He'll be there and the starter...as expected. Sorry Geno.
OK and by restructuring we are adding more money down the line, no? Unless someone took a flat out pay cut you;re wrong and I'm right Bottom line the 12 mill no matter where it went is now 12 mill less down the line
I don't think we have to make this into a who won or lost thing. I know the SOJF out there would love to make it look like the team made "omg yet another dumb move" but that's just not real. The team gave a player a contract that doesn't hamstring them in the slightest. The player got a one-year contract for what he was worth to the team last year. If anything, I would say the team won because the player isn't getting anything more than one years worth of security.
Well. He had a decent last year and if he sh-ts the bed we can always try out Geno. Also, Hackenberg gets to study under an utter professional. Even if the contract isn't ideal there are still positives.
Man, I don't have the time to go through how moving salary around affects the team. Go look it up or something. You're basically bitching about minimal money here and there. Start with how contracts are structured.
It's really a simple question that you keep avoiding....Is the $12 million, no matter how many times it's restructured or whatever....is it 12 million less that we now can use? In future years.... Yes or no?
You are trying to make this black and white and it's not. It's not a question worth answering. Do you think it's just a coincidence that literally no one is sharing your opinion? It's because you're wrong. Sorry, don't wanna hurt any feelings... you're not wrong, just inaccurate.
Who cares about rollover money when the Jets' biggest FA of note this offseason is who, Brian Winters? You can't roll over money forever unless you're Idzik and don't care about spending ever.
Lol at these reactions. Hahaha From a football perspective it's a fucking no-brainer. You play to win the games... Go Jets. Go Fitz.
Again I'll ask, do you think it's a coincidence that there's no one else who brought this up and no one is rushing to support your claim?
Most of the board is too busy celebrating us massively overpaying for a JAG If you can show me how a restructuring on someone else's contract just makes that money dissappear from future years' caps I'll admit I was wrong
