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http://www.boston.com/sports/column...ontract_restructure_for_tom_brady_plenty.html
"But back to the more likely scenario. Now that the money is not guaranteed, the team could cut Brady and re-sign him to a five-year deal with a salary bonus that pays him what many of his equals (and lessers) are making throughout the NFL. As the Globe’s Ben Volin notes in his breakdown, Brady is set to have a $15 million salary cap number in 2016. “They could designate Brady a post-June 1 cut, which would give the Patriots salary cap charges of $6 million in both 2016 and 2017,” Volin writes. “The Patriots could then re-sign Brady to a five-year deal through 2020, which would put more money in his pocket in the short term in a signing bonus, but would lower his cap number in 2016 by spreading the bonus out over five years. He did a similar thing in 2013, converting salary into signing bonus to help ease the cap charges.”
Thoughts?
As I tweeted to Ben there is no need to cut Brady first to then have an extension. Just extend him.