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  • By Jeremy Bergman NFL.com
  • Published: Jan. 27, 2016 at 08:15 a.m.
  • Updated: Jan. 27, 2016 at 08:35 a.m.

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The Miami Dolphins are hoping a turbulent 2015 regular season doesn't spill over into the offseason.
Miami restructured its front office -- football czar Mike Tannenbaum replaced general manager Dennis Hickey with director of college scouting Chris Grier -- and hired Bears offensive coordinator Adam Gase to be its new head coach. Now the Dolphins are primed to make some big payroll decisions.
At Senior Bowl practice in Mobile, Ala., Tannenbaum insinuated that the Dolphins are looking into restructuring the contract of expensive defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh.
"By the time we get to the first day of the league year, we should have plenty of room to address the needs that we have," Tannenbaum told reporters, per ESPN. "Certainly we will be looking at Suh's contract."

The best defensive tackle in the league, Suh signed a six-year, $114 million contract in March, with $60 million guaranteed, making him the highest-paid defensive player in NFL history. However, the 'Fins only paid Suh a base salary of $985,000 in 2015 -- he received a $25.5 million signing bonus. In 2016, Miami is expected to dole out $23.4 million to Suh, a number usually reserved for franchise quarterbacks.
Is Suh worth that type of compensation? He thinks so. In November, NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported that Suh tried to take control of the team in a fiery address.
"I'm told he told them: 'I run this defense, I'm going to be here for the next five years, there is no guarantee any of you will be as well. Only a handful of guys are good enough to play with me right now,'" Rapoport said. "He also said the schemes were not good enough, the techniques were not enough and everyone needed to be better, he said 'follow me.'"
Miami needs to fill a lot of holes if the team wants to be competitive in a crowded AFC East for years to come, so opening up some cap room this year would help come free agency. Whether the new regime in Miami Gardens can convince the confident defender to take a sliced salary in 2016 is still up in the air.
 
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[h=1]Dolphins consider restructuring Ndamukong Suh's deal[/h]129













  • By Jeremy Bergman NFL.com
  • Published: Jan. 27, 2016 at 08:15 a.m.
  • Updated: Jan. 27, 2016 at 08:35 a.m.

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The Miami Dolphins are hoping a turbulent 2015 regular season doesn't spill over into the offseason.
Miami restructured its front office -- football czar Mike Tannenbaum replaced general manager Dennis Hickey with director of college scouting Chris Grier -- and hired Bears offensive coordinator Adam Gase to be its new head coach. Now the Dolphins are primed to make some big payroll decisions.
At Senior Bowl practice in Mobile, Ala., Tannenbaum insinuated that the Dolphins are looking into restructuring the contract of expensive defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh.
"By the time we get to the first day of the league year, we should have plenty of room to address the needs that we have," Tannenbaum told reporters, per ESPN. "Certainly we will be looking at Suh's contract."

The best defensive tackle in the league, Suh signed a six-year, $114 million contract in March, with $60 million guaranteed, making him the highest-paid defensive player in NFL history. However, the 'Fins only paid Suh a base salary of $985,000 in 2015 -- he received a $25.5 million signing bonus. In 2016, Miami is expected to dole out $23.4 million to Suh, a number usually reserved for franchise quarterbacks.
Is Suh worth that type of compensation? He thinks so. In November, NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported that Suh tried to take control of the team in a fiery address.
"I'm told he told them: 'I run this defense, I'm going to be here for the next five years, there is no guarantee any of you will be as well. Only a handful of guys are good enough to play with me right now,'" Rapoport said. "He also said the schemes were not good enough, the techniques were not enough and everyone needed to be better, he said 'follow me.'"
Miami needs to fill a lot of holes if the team wants to be competitive in a crowded AFC East for years to come, so opening up some cap room this year would help come free agency. Whether the new regime in Miami Gardens can convince the confident defender to take a sliced salary in 2016 is still up in the air.
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We had the money last year, nobody made them make his first year salary so low. Restructure if you like at some point he will be a 28 million dollar hit so not sure how putting it off one year or two makes it any better
 
If restructuring means signing or keeping the right free agents then let it roll. It seems management thinks they can make a run next year. Does anybody ever accept that it's a rebuilding year anymore? Whatever, make it rain.


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the suh deal was a loser the moment tannenbaum wrote it up. you don't pay defensive tackles elite franchise quarterback money. btw, who gave tannen**** the title football czar? lol. as a jets fan i am so glad this guy isn't ruining the jets anymore. good luck with this....no way suh takes a pay cut.....if anything you give him even more guaranteed money and get even more screwed in 2 years
 
never liked this signing, but wish we could get the big hit over with asap
 
I'm still glad he's a Miami Dolphin.


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Not a fan restructuring now. Foolish to not have had the initial insight just one year into his deal. Take our lumps now and allow the rebuilding process. If this regime starts dumping more money into FA beyond the players already in a Fin uniform and attempt to build a team in that aspect, we are in deep ****.
 
he will still get the money in form of bonuses but it will help the cap space. he is still getting paid the full amount
 
Gase must have watched some 2015 Miami Dolphins defense game film, smacked his forehead, and said, "Jesus. Cut these losers and sign all new ones in free agency. Watching offenses play this defense is like watching a slo mo video of a cheetah eating a gazelle."

Cut to Tannenbaum fiddling with his tie, avoiding eye contact, murmuring something about all of the free agency money being tied up in Suh's deal because Ross was convinced they were one player away from the super bowl...
 
The restructuring saves 18 mil by converting it into a signing bonus. As for Suh not taking a pay cut, Aponte wrote into his contract that the Dolphins can restructure without his consent. Chalk one up to Dawn.
 
MadDog 88 said:
The restructuring saves 18 mil by converting it into a signing bonus. As for Suh not taking a pay cut, Aponte wrote into his contract that the Dolphins can restructure without his consent. Chalk one up to Dawn.
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Is there any reason you have to restructure all of that? Why not just drop it 5-10 million, which would not be a huge raise on the other years, but still enough to get one or two starters. We could have had Evan Mathis & Frank Gore for around 8 mill or Demarco Murray & Orlando Franklin for 10 mill, just to give some examples.
 
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The restructuring saves 18 mil by converting it into a signing bonus. As for Suh not taking a pay cut, Aponte wrote into his contract that the Dolphins can restructure without his consent. Chalk one up to Dawn.
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Nothing to chalk up. They can restructure which only guarantees him more guaranteed money. He wont be taking a pay cut. So that then adds 18 million guaranteed on his contract and makes every other year of the contract that much bigger3 million bigger to be precise.
So in 2018 you now pay him 25 million and 2019 you pay him 27 million against the cap. All it does is create two more huge cap hits instead of the one, nothing genius about it. You then guarantee 78 million of his contract out of the 114.
 
dlockz said:
Nothing to chalk up. They can restructure which only guarantees him more guaranteed money. He wont be taking a pay cut. So that then adds 18 million guaranteed on his contract and makes every other year of the contract that much bigger3 million bigger to be precise.
So in 2018 you now pay him 25 million and 2019 you pay him 27 million against the cap. All it does is create two more huge cap hits instead of the one, nothing genius about it. You then guarantee 78 million of his contract out of the 114.
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OR, we bite the bullet this year, give him his $28M and wait until next year when he will be 30 and have no more guaranteed money to structure a new deal

I do this as I do not believe we are in need of the cap space, unless anyone thinks we need it for a Super Bowl run.
 
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