Who's next on the chopping block?

[Razeyfingers]

the only option we'd have would be to ask him to take a paycut, but he's already said he won't do that.

He did ?

When Rolla?

[panther4life]

"We won't touch his contract this year because it does not make sense for either side"????

it makes a ton of sense for either side.

for beason it's all about job security. for the panthers it's all about saving money. both have a lot of incentive to work something out for even this year.

we have leverage because beason's best chance for a multi-year deal is here and you better believe that is at the forefront of his mind. he hits the market and he's a one year stop gap. we cut him lose and we split the cap hit between two seasons and still have money to replace a replaceable player.

First of all I am not riled up over this and I hope you are not..........

I fail to understand what your saying or you fail to understand what I am saying,not sure what's going on here but I would like to get on the same page if possible.

So here's how I am looking at it/ understand it(I am open to being wrong)

In a restructure the only thing that can be changed is the base salary and workout bonus.

Right now his base salary of 5.25 million and workout bonus is 250k.. So those 2 combined is 5.5 million.

Theres a clause in his contract that makes 3.75 million of his base salary fully guaranteed.(per roto world) So if we threaten to cut him if he won't take a paycut, he can/should gladly say cut me and give me my 3.75 million. Then we also have the 12 million in signing bonus yet to hit our cap. So if we cut him thats 15.75 million in dead money.

His cap hit this year is only 9.5 million. If we split the 12 million over 2 years 6 million this year and 6 million next year and then add in the 3.75 fully guaranteed were taking a cap hit of 9.75 million. Thats 275k more than if we leave it alone. On top of that we have 6 million in dead space next year and stuck looking for a new starting LB.

He is basically on a 1 year contract with us as well. We can cut him for 8 million in dead money next year vs the 15.75 million this year. So even if he agreed to reduce his base salary for us this year then we can still cut him next year which = 0 benefit for him. The only way he would agree to such a thing is for further guarantee we wont cut him next year and only way to do that is to give him guaranteed money, which =o benefit for us.