LTC Issue

[sportznut]

The time it makes most sense to restructure a contract (to me) is to give the player a pay cut now deferring that money to a future year knowing they underperformed their contract so it’s likely pay cut now and then cut before deferred balloon salary later. Shortening the time the player has in organization effectively in many of those cases. We’ve discussed restructure additional options and ways to adjust that in past years but not strong support for larger change at that recent year time.

Yeah, I tend to have always looked at a restructure as more or less "punting" the last year of the contract, almost always cutting them. I suppose things could change, but to restructure a guy, and offer them an LTC a year later seems ass backwards to me.

I figured that was just the way it was...guess I never paid attention. I went to see what Orlando Brown's LTC was and was shocked. Then I noticed he was restructured at one point...guess I need to pay more attention before I trade for players

I guess I should say you COULD restructure at any point in a contract (except the first or last year). So, presuming a restructure happened in year 2 of a 5 year contract, and even that bloated last year is still considered a deal with the cap and salaries increasing year after year? I suppose it could happen, but probably still pretty rare.