Derek Carr won’t take a pay cut for 2025 but willing to restructure to help the cap

Stalwart385 said

If anybody on the team took a paycut that would be an unexpected gift. It shouldn't be expected. We also shouldn't expect a bunch of roster turnover. Any turnover would be a two year process. So asking to cut our players and tear it down isn't realistic. Doesn't matter who our coach or even gm is.

Settle in for a similar roster. Hopefully we get some value FAs, a good draft and maybe some injury luck for once.

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There are ways to cut Carr outright and still get under but it would painful to a degree. You'd have to restructure nearly everyone on a 2nd contract, convince some older players to take pay cuts to stay, and cut some under performers. And you get some of that cap space back once Carr signs with another team because of offsets so theoretically you could convert salary to option bonuses for most of your restructures that don't kick in until the beginning of the season. By that time Carr would have signed with another team giving some room for the options.