David Diehl restructured his contract.

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<p class="js-tweet-text">Looks like OL David Diehl restructured his
contract, lowering his base salary from $4.2M to $1.2M. That clears
another $1.5M in cap space.</p>

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That's what I love about FA period. Contracts getting restructured as I'm getting ready for bed.

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This will be his last year as a Giant then.

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[quote user="Flip Empty"]This will be his last year as a Giant then.[/quote]
Well I hope not but he is getting up there in age. We need to draft a few stud OL

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[quote user="LT_was_good"]That's what I love about FA period. Contracts getting restructured as I'm getting ready for bed.[/quote]

wondering if reese is getting money for bennett

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<p class="js-tweet-text">Looks like OL David Diehl restructured his
contract, lowering his base salary from $4.2M to $1.2M. That clears
another $1.5M in cap space.</p>[/quote]This may be a stupid question. But I don't understand the Cap. Why is it not 3m saved instead of 1.5m

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[quote user="tucksackstom"][quote user="LT_was_good"]That's what I love about FA period.* Contracts getting restructured as I'm getting ready for bed.[/quote]

wondering if reese is getting money for bennett
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Could be

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<p class="js-tweet-text">Looks like OL David Diehl restructured his
contract, lowering his base salary from $4.2M to $1.2M. That clears
another $1.5M in cap space.</p>[/quote]This may be a stupid question. But I don't understand the Cap. Why is it not 3m saved instead of 1.5m[/quote]

Because what they do is take that 3M, give it to him as a bonus, but they have to spread that equally over the length of the contract. So it lowers the number for this year, but adds money to the years after. Thats why restructuring contracts is bad. They are picking guys with smaller deals so it won't hurt as bad later.

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<p class="js-tweet-text">Looks like OL David Diehl restructured his
contract, lowering his base salary from $4.2M to $1.2M. That clears
another $1.5M in cap space.</p>[/quote]This may be a stupid question. But I don't understand the Cap. Why is it not 3m saved instead of 1.5m[/quote]

Because what they do is take that 3M, give it to him as a bonus, but they have to spread that equally over the length of the contract.* So it lowers the number for this year, but adds money to the years after.* Thats why restructuring contracts is bad.* They are picking guys with smaller deals so it won't hurt as bad later.
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Restructuring is bad for future year cap hits if the player finishes out the contract, but not so much if the player is cut This increases the chances Diehl will be cut after next year.

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<p class="js-tweet-text">Looks like OL David Diehl restructured his
contract, lowering his base salary from $4.2M to $1.2M. That clears
another $1.5M in cap space.</p>[/quote]This may be a stupid question. But I don't understand the Cap. Why is it not 3m saved instead of 1.5m[/quote]

Because what they do is take that 3M, give it to him as a bonus, but they have to spread that equally over the length of the contract.* So it lowers the number for this year, but adds money to the years after.* Thats why restructuring contracts is bad.* They are picking guys with smaller deals so it won't hurt as bad later.
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Which is why we are in Cap Hell every year