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That Guy · 02-28-2005, 08:59 PM

here's how restructurings work... samuels has something like 15$mill of per year salary left, SO he NEEDS a 15$mil signing bonus in his new contract (you don't expect him to restructure and take a pay cut do you? all the money left on a contract as yearly salary generally ends up as a SB and the new contract not only pays out his remaining contract's money, it gives him more... if he didnt get the big pay day from the last years of his contract, he's going to expect them up front or else there's no reason to for him to sign)...

smoot is a different deal completely... he has no cap leverage over us this year and isn't being asked to restructure... he's asking for a completely new deal, so there' no expectation of how much he should get based on his current contract's yearly salary etc...

Its not really about smoot vs samuels, they're two different situations, and if samuels wasn't needed to lower his cap number and get rid of his insane yearly salary, i think his deal would be much different... restructurings tend to have higher signing bonuses though to make up for the loss of upcoming yearly money...

02-28-2005, 08:59 PM	#19
That Guy Living Legend Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: VA Age: 43 Posts: 17,620	Re: Skins close with Samuels here's how restructurings work... samuels has something like 15$mill of per year salary left, SO he NEEDS a 15$mil signing bonus in his new contract (you don't expect him to restructure and take a pay cut do you? all the money left on a contract as yearly salary generally ends up as a SB and the new contract not only pays out his remaining contract's money, it gives him more... if he didnt get the big pay day from the last years of his contract, he's going to expect them up front or else there's no reason to for him to sign)... smoot is a different deal completely... he has no cap leverage over us this year and isn't being asked to restructure... he's asking for a completely new deal, so there' no expectation of how much he should get based on his current contract's yearly salary etc... Its not really about smoot vs samuels, they're two different situations, and if samuels wasn't needed to lower his cap number and get rid of his insane yearly salary, i think his deal would be much different... restructurings tend to have higher signing bonuses though to make up for the loss of upcoming yearly money...