Imagine if.....

[TheBostonStraggler]

However, we don't have to pay his signing bonus. Seattle did and it would be charged to their cap, not ours. I don't know how the $49M is structured but let's say $18M was guaranteed and the last year or two are phoney baloney years with whacky inflated salaries like $10M and $12M. (That would be a typical NFL contract structure.) In that case we might get him for 4 years for $19M, and can cut him whenever because there is no prorated signing bonus.

If that's how it works I like it better. It begs the question though, why would Seattle trade a guy on the books for a hefty SB and get nothing from him at all? I'd like to see his contract and see how it reads in actual salary versus fake years. But if you're right about the Hawks being responsible for the SB, just doesn't seem realistic any team would do this.