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

St. Widge said
It's certainly not ideal. I think they could try to get some of those guys to take pay cuts instead. But they could obviously say no.

It's possible. Carr has a point, outside of his games missed his statistics were good, good enough that asking him to take a paycut was never likely to be complied w/.