Restructuring the contracts of a couple players will be needed from the 49ers in order to redeem critical salary cap space.
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00:00 The Niners need to create cap space
00:02 They could cut people but this is this is a family coach. It's not just a team
00:07 They want to keep this group together
00:09 And to do so they can restructure
00:11 Contracts to really just lock them in for longer and make them more palatable
00:16 to the cap now
00:19 Who do you think is the Niners are most likely to restructure in the next few days?
00:24 I think that I think it is like monday. Sorry, right? I think the uh,
00:30 The candidates for for being restructured would be traverius ward or probably fred warner
00:35 uh
00:36 Right now traverius ward is due 18 million next year and fred warner is due 24.4 million dollars
00:41 Um, right. Yeah right there that that makes up for about 14 of the cap alone. Um, so
00:48 They're they're they're candidates for also because of traverius ward
00:52 It seems as though that they need to add more at the position
00:55 So that you might want to get him to kind of supplant some of his salary in the upcoming years
01:00 And he's not that um, he's not that old
01:03 You know
01:04 These are guys that are relatively on the back or probably like smack dab
01:07 I would say in the middle of their primes. They're probably past the front end
01:10 Um and being able to restructure and probably get a lump sum and get paid some good money up front
01:16 To take a little bit of a move. Um, I think they would be glad to do it. Uh
01:20 right now
01:22 we've looked at it over 10 per over the 10 players in the
01:26 Salary cap right now make up 10 players in the salary cap for the 49ers make up over 72 percent of the cap
01:33 So they've really got to knock that down. I mean we are the definition of top heavy
01:37 and let's explain to people who don't exactly understand because i'm one of them or have a rudimentary understanding of
01:44 app rules
01:47 Restructuring your contract is that you take their base salary and convert it to a signing bonus and that changes
01:53 What the cap hit is I believe that's what it is
01:55 Yeah, that's exactly what it is and you and that and that bonus is in the form of a lump sum
02:00 So what you do is use restructure the money on the back end
02:03 And they almost get a reward for money getting put up in the front end. So they get raw cash
02:09 Their their contract gets bled out a little bit more and then the restructured allocated years reshift the cap
02:16 Okay, so i'm trying to think about this from the player's perspective. I don't think they really have a choice. I think
02:20 They have to do this or their agent agrees to it, whatever
02:23 um, and I it would be better I would prefer to get a signing bonus than
02:28 game checks
02:30 but definitely but
02:32 is there something about like
02:34 Motivating factor like just you just get a check at the beginning of the season
02:38 They say go play football or would you rather have guys like playing for their game checks?
02:41 Well, you got to look at it this way. Uh
02:45 The does it matter?
02:47 It does. I mean everybody's everybody's situation is different. I know one thing about ballplayers is that they want consistency
02:53 That's the biggest thing about the name of the game. You don't want a short contract
02:56 You want longer years and you want those years to be backloaded?
02:59 um, so for me
03:01 some if I was in a position of playing and I got a restructured contract it'd be dope because it's like you get a lump sum
03:07 Up front and if you really like where you are, it's like all right. I like what I like where I am
03:12 I may take a little bit of a pay cut on the allocated years on the back end
03:15 But I do get more years and there's nothing like having stability in the nfl and being under contract
03:21 so, you know, there's many ways you can skin a cat, you know, but
03:24 Good. I got another name for you. So we agree on chavarrius word fred warner. These are like two of the most solid
03:31 Players in their prime that you figure we're gonna be here for a while. I'm not gonna worry about them
03:36 in any way
03:39 Another guy making a lot of money right around the same age 27 28. This guy's 28
03:43 Debo samuel really expensive this year. Um, if you I mean he's a captain
03:52 He's part of the inner circle if you if you want him around long term
03:57 He'd be a perfect guy to restructure you could create 15 million in cap space
04:00 But you got to really want him around long term
04:03 Some people I mean he's kind of polarizing on that one
04:08 yeah, I mean and polarizing is the word because I don't think there's anybody that's coming at this and like a
04:13 balanced approach where they're like, uh
04:16 Maybe let's see how he does this year
04:18 pretty much the response on debo samuel getting either
04:21 Moved restructured or something happened to this 28 million that he's due is either a resounding support where you know
04:29 shame on you for even raising the
04:31 inference or
04:34 it's
04:35 Get him out of here, you know, he shouldn't even be you know, he ain't worth the shoes that he's wearing, you know
04:39 but you know for me
04:41 I kind of feel like
04:43 uh, it's up to it's up to kyle as far as debo is concerned because he is directly linked to his usage and his
04:49 Importance to what kyle thinks he can do right? I mean we can look at him traditionally for a ride receiver for a wide receiver
04:55 We can obviously say that he's not lived up to the billing for what he's paid
04:59 And what he's supposed to be in this offense, however
05:01 uh
05:03 his usage rate, uh for what kyle deans
05:06 Um is always going to be the determining factor on whether or not he makes that money. The truth of the matter is this
05:12 Once the turd gets bigger than the cat it's time to get rid of the cat
05:16 You know, I mean so it's like we'll see how long
05:20 debo
05:22 we can put up with the stuff that we've seen debo do and
05:24 What his worth is if it's worthy enough for him to be here to get paid, but I don't
05:29 We've been talking about it. I have we we all it's obvious that he should be the one that we restructure
05:35 But I really think they are going to pay him this money this year. I think they have 28 million plus on the cap
05:41 I guess yeah, they can
05:43 it just seems like
05:45 If you give them 28 million if you don't restructure his contract, what does that say?
05:48 Then they kind of want to keep the option open of trading him next year
05:52 So you're going to pay extra to keep your options open. It seems to me either
05:57 Trade him now or restructure him keeping him at 28 million
06:00 It's really expensive for a guy who is no longer the number one option in your offense
06:05 He was paid to be the number one option in your offense, but he's not
06:07 also
06:10 Also, there is something
06:12 Sorry about that. There is there's also something also something to be said about uh,
06:17 Uh what happened this year? All right, so we went to the super bowl
06:22 Great year. We didn't get what we wanted, right? But one thing that we do have to start realizing about these contracts is that
06:29 We were remarkably healthy this year. Yep. We were like one of the top five teams we were
06:35 Christian mccaffrey didn't miss a game like who would have called that? You know what i'm saying?
06:40 Purdy didn't get hurt guys. I mean we had guys fall off especially on the defensive side of the ball
06:45 But as far as injuries are concerned we had most of our guys all year
06:50 I mean, I don't know if you can count on that every year. You know what i'm saying? And that's what the man
06:55 We just played 60 games in three years. Yeah, so older team. It's the niners
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