Re: dzrams and Tavon contract questions for a capologist?

dzrams, thank you, very helpful! Interesting that the main stumbling block is the salary for 2018. (Kinda weird... his 9 to 9.5 per year for 2019 to 2021 doesn't seem to mean that much).

If you can stand it, I'd love to hear you describe in detail the cap"ramifications" (pun intended) of a trade with a restructure.

Let's say that hypothetically speaking an AFC team is willing to pay Tavon 6 mil per year in 2018 and 8 mil per year in 2019 and 2020. (As opposed to the Rams current deal of 8 mil for 2018, ans 9 mil per year in 2019, 2020, and 2021).

According to my hypothetical scenario above, my questions would be:

--Might tavon have an incentive to take this deal-- the thinking being, "I'll make 6 mil instead of 5 mil in 2018, and even though its only 8 mil per for two years instead of 9 mil per for three years, it's a moot point because nobody was gonna pay me the 9 mil per for 3 seasons anyway?"

--How would the deal be structured so that the Rams would have less "dead money" in 2018? By what amount would the dead money be decreased?

Basically, I'm just hoping you could plug in a few hypothetical numbers of your own-- signing bonus, guaranteed money, pro-rated maoney, dead money, cap savings-- and explain in a year-by-year way how the changes would affect three things: Rams' annual payout, new team's annual payout, and Tavon's annual income.

I was most intrigued by how you said:

the Rams could convert some of that $5M roster bonus into pro-rated bonus money over the remaining 4 years right before a trade. When they trade him, they would immediately "eat" that amount on their salary cap.

I'd love to be able to fully understand that sentence, but I don't. So might you be willing to plug in some numbers and show what happens? I know it's a lot to ask, so if you don't have time to do this "homework assignment," well then maybe I'll just have to do my own research and read some articles about how the cap works....!