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It just should be done with caution and you certainly can't over-do it.
Both statements are true but the question remains, is restructuring two years in a row at a time when they're going all in overdoing it?
The way I see it, they had multiple re-structures at a time when the cap went down and had to account for the fact they had 2 qbs counting against the cap for more than 44 M. So doing it was a necessity they couldn't avoid. There's reasons they never did that before (though they had some discrete, one-player restructures before). There's reasons they say they don't like to do it.
The real question is, does subtracting future cap space by restructuring multiple players in consecutive years hurt them? In what possible ways could it
not? The Rams themselves have spoken out against that kind of stealing from the future (though as mentioned they had little choice in 2021).
So do I think they will restructure multiple players, detracting from future cap space, in order to sign a free agent left OT in 2022? Assuming there even
is a free agent starting caliber left OT (there usually isn't--I've said this whole discussion it's not something you count on). Is that really the best option? (Assuming, again, that there is someone to sign.) I don't think they don't do that. As it stands Stafford isn't even under contract for 2023.
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