(11-29-2022, 07:05 PM)jj82284 Wrote: IIRC you can structure a trade where the other team assumes part of the contract.  Remember the Texans giving up a second router for another team to take on a QBS salary? 

Some of these #s can be massaged.

salary and dead money are often two diffferent things. When a team trades for the player, they trade for the player's current contract, too. So in any "massaging" you are going to have to re-negotiate the terms of the deal if you are trying to change the impact the trade would otherwise have on your current or future cap.

Very rarely is a player going to re-negotiate a deal without some benefit to themselves, like extra guaranteed money, a new signing bonus up front, or something like that.

HOU had to lose heavily in that deal to convince a team to eat some of that cap hit (and they still ate some of the loss themselves), so that's definitely not an avenue I'd ever like to pursue. There was no massaging or restructure of his deal. Cleveland assumed the guaranteed salary portion of the deal, and HOU ate the amortized bonus.

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