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Originally posted by Not Bob
Amen. Plus, they ask players to re-structure their contracts *all* the time to take less money, and you don't hear washed-up nobodies on ESPN or talk radio ragging the GMs for not recognizing the sanctity of contracts -- "when a real man puts his name on that piece of paper . . ."
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Come on. Both sides know this, and the numbers are a fiction designed by agents to look good and players to show they are respected. Two things matter in an NFL contract. The signing bonus and the first 2-3 years of the contract. The last couple of years are
always huge numbers thrown in for show. The restructuring is almost always over those last couple of years, which are 50-100% higher than the rest of the contract. So everyone knows it's fiction, and the restructuring is to get it back to where it should be.
