Patriots receive nearly 3 million in additional cap space

[yopats]

I know I'm not Miguel but I'll take a stab. My guess is they don't necessarily have unilateral control to do this BUT the way to adjust this years cap number is to convert x amount of dollars in salary into an immediate signing bonus. Of course the player will not reject an immediate payment so that's probly why he says they can unilaterally do this. No contract can be changed unilaterally unless there's an option


So let's say this years cap number is 16 mil. And for revis he's basically 16m for the next 5 seasons. The bucs can say we will take 10m of the 16m and make it an immediate signing bonus. This years cap number would be remaining 6 mil plus 2 mil (bc the 10m bonus divided by 5 years works out to 2m over 5). That 2 mil would be on books no matter what for next 5 years.

I think that's what would happen.

If I'm wrong then sorry for wasting your time

What would the cap hits look like for the future years in that scenario?

 

[billdog3484]

What would the cap hits look like for the future years in that scenario?

I don't want to go on too much with this bc I don't know if I'm correct

But I think because revis' current deal has no guarantees only the already paid bonus would count against cap in case of future cut

So next year his number would be 8m under my scenario. The following 4 years would be 16+2m, so 18m per. But only the 2m each year for remainder is deal would be penalty for releasing bc that's all that was either guaranteed and or paid via bonus

 

[yopats]

I don't want to go on too much with this bc I don't know if I'm correct

But I think because revis' current deal has no guarantees only the already paid bonus would count against cap in case of future cut

So next year his number would be 8m under my scenario. The following 4 years would be 16+2m, so 18m per. But only the 2m each year for remainder is deal would be penalty for releasing bc that's all that was either guaranteed and or paid via bonus

This might help shed some light on it.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...t-gives-team-unilateral-power-to-restructure/