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Originally Posted by BleedingRed
We don't pay his guaranteed money,
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Technically speaking we would, in a trade. That's the benefit to trading for guys who have a great deal of their cap figure in pro-rated bonus vs. guaranteed salary. The entire salary follows the player whereas with bonus money it just accelerates onto the trading teams cap.
But practically speaking, as the Cardinals are willing to restructure his deal and presumably convert part of that guaranteed salary into bonus, they'd absorb that bonus money.
And how much of that money they're willing to absorb will likely control their return. Because the more of it they will absorb, the more flexibility we'll have in structuring a LTC.