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Message: [QUOTE="chugg21, post: 5703007, member: 3360"] So anyone that has a big base salary on the books for the year can do a simple restructure which just moves that base salary down as low as to the vet minimum which I think is $1.3m this year and the rest is converted into a signing bonus which the player then receives immediately and the team spreads that signing bonus over the next handful of years. Bills do it every year with Josh and their very best players that they plan on keeping around for a while. It becomes dangerous when they were doing it with guys like Dawson the last few years which resulted in his cap hit being $17m this year. Great way to immediately free up some space but at the end of the day that money is still coming due at some point in the future. Think we're just basically on the Saints plan with what they did with Brees which is just keep kicking the can down the road and keeping the window to win open for his career and then...dead. [/QUOTE]