KiwiHawk
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Wilson's contract can only be restructured without his permission. That means any money we save this year must be paid back next year or the one after. Those years are already almost $40 million each, and there's only two years to work with.John63":8kfukiq8 said:pittpnthrs":8kfukiq8 said:KiwiHawk":8kfukiq8 said:Is this something you heard some talking head say so you automatically think it's a magic bullet answer to all of our cap problems?pittpnthrs":8kfukiq8 said:The team could have restructured his contract (again) to help in signing other players but decided not to. Seems odd, doesnt it. This notion that Wilsons contract has the team hogtied is old and tiresome and not true.
Have you worked out the numbers and seen what a restructuring actually does to the next two years?
Extending Wilson could potentially reduce his impact on our cap this year by $15 mil by converting that to a signing bonus and spreading it over the next two years.
However, his CURRENT numbers for those seasons are $37 and $39 million so restructuring would push them $5 million higher *each season*. It's not like the money just vanishes - you might restructure now but what about the future? And because most of that money is in bonuses, the Seahawks would be effectively prohibited from trading him because of all the dead money it would cause.
The Seahawks could work out an *extension* with Wilson, but he'd want another highest-paid QB deal, which gets back to the question of why he demands #1 pay for less-than-#1 statistics.
On the other hand if we keep his salary where it is this year, that gives us $10 million less dead money to eat if we do a trade next year.
As much as we all like Wilson, a trade will probably happen because his salary is increasingly hard for the team to bear, and because teams will throw large amounts of attractive draft picks at us to secure his services. This year is a "deep QB draft" but next year probably not so much, so his value on the trade block increases if anything.
The future? Why is anybody worried about the future? Carroll is a dinosaur and Wilson is in his prime. If a trade does happen after next season (which I believe there is a strong chance) the QB position is going to decrease greatly anyways so why not try to win now? Lets face it, Wilson is probably a top 3 QB in the league. With the crazy Adams trade, is this team not all in right now? Restructure Wilsons contract and sign some players to fix the holes and bite the bullet later. The butthurt over Wilsons contract is insane around here. A top tier QB in the league and a future HOFer and people act like he doesnt deserve the cash.
Its amazing how some like to believe the talking heads when it suits them but ignore them when it does not. I have looked at the numbers, and sure you can restructure his contract now and save some and then F.. your cap up next year this a fact. Also, as to getting players well lets see how many of our draft Picks have been even avg? very few, how many of the FAs they got have been avg very few. Oline has been garbage since PC got hear even when Wilson was on rookie contract and guess what little has changed. Wilson has redone his contract for cap relief twice he has shown he is willing to its up the FO to do it and by the way don't need Wilson's permission to redo it either, so you have a problem with it not being done again yet blame the FO. In the meantime enjoy what you got because it all could be gone next season if the FO F... up.
So it really would be a matter of winning this season only and then heading into a complete rebuilding period. The problem with that is something may not go your way. You might get a bad call in a critical game, or a key player might get injured, and you don't make the Super Bowl this year. Now you're all in for nothing and are back to the pre-Carroll days where playoffs were appreciated because they were pretty scarce.
I said then and I say now that I would rather be the team that everyone dreads to play week on week than have one season of glory followed by a decade of being mediocre. Maybe you don't remember the years when we weren't respected, but I sure do, and I never want to go back to that.