Quote:There's nothing to indicate he'd be in serious jeopardy of getting paid nothing.  Some team would have picked him up even if he was released by the Jags. 

 

Considering the front office continues to say they want him on the roster is an indication to me that their evaluation of his playing ability doesn't mesh with yours. 

 

Keep on assuming he took a pay cut.  There's nothing that says he did.  They could have incentivized a portion of his contract.  Restructuring is rarely about cutting someone's pay, and on a team that isn't having cap issues, that's especially true. 

 

Would he have gotten nothing? Probably not. But more than what the Jaguars would have paid him? Probably not either. The team and Lewis probably agreed into something that works out for both of them; more than what Lewis would have gotten in the market had the Jags cut him out right but less than what his current contract guarantees.

 

And uh..if they changed the language of his contract to change a guarantee to incentive, then yeah, he took a pay cut.

 

Given that the team have zero need for additional cap space (we were at what? $30M after the Wiesnewski signing?), and there was not an extension involved, then yeah, I think it's a perfectly reasonable assumption that the purpose of this restructuring was to lower Lewis' salary this season.

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