Jansen's Future in Doubt?

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Originally Posted by Defensewins

You are assuming all the players want to restructure their contracts, which is what WP's LaCanfora might be hinting to: Some players may want to become FA's if the redskins restructure deal is not sweet enough.
Plus players like Jansen and Springs are getting older. Jansen level of play has suffered since his achillies, he is not the Pro-Bowl player of a few years ago.
Plus add Wade into the picture, he played well in his start and he is cheap. WP's LaCanfora is just speculating on these facts.
When you have a younger, cheaper decent player playing behind an expensive vet that is coming off a sub par season, anything can happen.
All speculation!
I am not saying Jansen will get cut. Some day Jansen will be off the team. Nothing is long term in this sport.

But restructuring deals do not involve any sweetening of the pot. The player still gets the exact amount of money his contract says he gets. Take Jansen for example. He's supposed to make $4.5 million or whatever in base salary this season. A restructure means they give him $4.0 million as a signing bonus right now, in a lumpsum payment, and pay him the other $500,000 in game checks starting in the fall. This is a lot better than waiting until the fall to collect the $4.5 million in game checks. But it's still the same amount of money.

Possible reasons things would go south with Jansen:
- He doesn't want to be a Redskin anymore, so he won't help the team out with a simple restructure.
- He's demanding a pay raise, and is threatening to hold out.
- The team thinks he's garbage and is asking him to take a paycut.

I don't see any reason to believe any of those scenarios are the case. They're certainly plausible, but until I hear something more substantial than La Canfora's speculation in his little blog, I'm going under the assumption that things are just fine with Jansen.

The Philly media built a mountain out of a molehill with Donovan McNabb's apparent unhappiness with the team. Same thing is happening here, though to a lesser extent. Media sensationalization at its best.