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Miguel I don't know how true this is, but I'm just passing this along to you for your reference.
PATS, SAINTS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF NEW CBA RULE
A league source tells us that Monday's trade between the Saints and Pats takes advantage of a little-known tweak to the CBA that permits the cap hit resulting from trades made after June 1 to be spread over two seasons.
Under the deal, the Saints sent defensive tackle Johnathan Sullivan to the Pats for receiver Bethel Johnson.
Previously, a trade resulted in the immediate acceleration of all unallocated bonus money into the current cap year. The rule was one of the reasons that player movement via trade had diminished over the past decade.
But now the cap consequences for a player traded after June 1 are the same as when a player is cut after June 1.
So the Pats will carry the cap charge for 20 percent of Johnson's original signing bonus in 2006, and 20 percent in 2007. The Saints will account for the cap charge applicable to Sullivan's bonus money in 2006, with all remaining "dead money" from his signing and option bonus counting against the cap in 2007. Under the old rules, both teams would have seen all of the remaining bonus money apply in 2006.
How obscure is this rule? We've scoured the CBA extension term sheet, and we don't see it in there anywhere.
Miguel I don't know how true this is, but I'm just passing this along to you for your reference.
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