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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I would let Mankins play out this year of his contract and cut him next year. My issue with re-structuring Mankins contract is it makes it so much harder to part ways with him next season if his play continues to decline. I don't want a 33 year old LG with a $12.5mil cap hit and $7mil in dead money on the books. He's been a great player for the Pats but I was never a fan of that contract and I would try and get out from under it as soon as I could and 2015 seems like the right time.
From Mankins perspective he would be silly to not accept a re-structure. It would not only give him part of his money upfront but it would also make him much harder to cut next season almost guaranteeing that salary too. If he was offered a pay cut I could see why he would turn it down, but a straight re-structure turning base salary into bonus money is a no-brainer.
What exactly are they creating the cap space for; they have about $4 M-$7 M. They have players like Gostkowski, and McCourty who they could extend and that would free up space, along with the likely restructure or release of Vince Wilfork. I guess before I could answer whether or not they would restructure him I would have to know what they would need the money for, outside of Jared Allen who is signing with the Seahawks per reports I cannot think of a player that we would need cap more cap space to sign.
I thought that I'd respond to the question you actually asked rather than thinking that you asked about a pay cut.
A restructure of Mankins' contract would produce about $3M of cap room by move salary from this year to 2015 and 2016. So, if Mankins were cut next year, the additional amount would hit next year's cap.
Players almost always accept a re-structure. All it does is take $4.5M of his slaray and converts it to a signing bonus. Mankins just gets his $3M of his money early instead of waiting to get it week by week.
I think that it will and should happen. Others don't like pushing money forward. Of course, that is done on almost every contract signing.