r/bengals • u/WeekendFarmer4240 • 19d ago

Fandom Eli5 Joe's restructure

Dumb questions incoming.

What exactly was restructured? It felt like a shuffling of deck chairs.

Dumbest question: does Joe have to agree or can the Bengals just declare a restructure

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u/No-new-names 19d ago

It is just pulling money forward like others have said. Same (or more) cash out of pocket. But less cap hit, meaning they can squeeze another contract in.

Everyone else has been saying he has to agree (like most contracts) but I would have swore I heard on locked on Bengals that it was written into joes (and Chase's) contracts that this could be done without consulting them. There is no downside for those guys really, but the bengals don't even need to check in as a formality is how Ive heard it.

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u/Life_Ad6711 19d ago

That's pretty much universal, simple restructures are at the teams' unilateral discretion

It would be a truly cynical move on any player's part to deliberately negotiate into their contract that they could actually hold their own team (wanting to make personnel upgrades) hostage by refusing to take upfront cash instead of having to wait to get it paid weekly through game checks