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Dolphins consider restructuring Ndamukong Suh's deal


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Suh has absolutely no incentive to take a single cent of a paycut.  The Dolphins sure as hell can't cut him at this point.  That basically means the only option they will have if they want to free up cap space this year would be to convert some of this year's salary into another signing bonus.  Of course, that would be screwing their future cap even worse... so yeah, that sounds about right for Tanny.  Sucks for them!

 

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Mike Tannenbaum "football czar" LOL. Did he give himself that title? He hired the GM and coach, so what exactly is his job title/description? Seems like a pretty top heavy organization. 

What a great feeling to finally have adults in charge of the Jets 

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Suh has absolutely no incentive to take a single cent of a paycut.  The Dolphins sure as hell can't cut him at this point.  That basically means the only option they will have if they want to free up cap space this year would be to convert some of this year's salary into another signing bonus.  Of course, that would be screwing their future cap even worse... so yeah, that sounds about right for Tanny.  Sucks for them!

Tanny has finely honed the skill of kicking the can down the road.

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Typical Tannenbaum: mortgaging tomorrow's team for today's team.

Suh has zero motivation to restructure unless MIA is going to offer more cash or more guarantees. He's guaranteed through 2017 with prorated signing bonuses of $5MM for 2018 and 2019. After 2017 he'll be 31 and could easily pick up another contract if MIA cuts him. (But let's be realistic; Tannenbaum is not a guy to let his stars go.) Even if MIA cuts him and he goes elsewhere in the league for $8-10MM per season he still has the prorated $5MM each in 2018 and 2019 so he's still rolling in cash.

Any restructuring is problematic for MIA. If they convert his 2016 salary to guaranteed prorated cash down the road then they'll put the team in Tannenbaum's traditional win-now salary structure. If MIA decides it needs Suh in 2018 it's already lined up to pay him $21MM ($16MM salary plus $5MM prorated 2015 signing bonus) and adding anything more to that year would cripple the team's salary cap. MIA pretty much has to eat it this year and plan to cut him after 2017 unless Tannenbaum plans to go full hilt on mortgaging the future and try to pull a 2009 Jets. So they'll probably do something really stupid.

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The Suh and Tannehill contracts are gonna handicap that team for a while.  Typical Tannenbaum, some just never learn.  Guy should'v stuck to being an agent.

They way he hands out these huge contracts he is kind of doing their jobs - getting the players the biggest contracts as possible.

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