{"id":23602,"date":"2014-01-02T17:43:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T21:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=23602"},"modified":"2022-04-01T04:07:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T08:07:19","slug":"ferguson-will-not-take-pay-cut-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2014\/01\/02\/ferguson-will-not-take-pay-cut-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson Will Not Take Pay Cut In 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dbrickashaw_Ferguson\"<\/a>When a team wants a player to take a pay cut they need leverage to make it happen.\u00a0 <\/span>This means the player can be released out of their contract and a viable replacement exists.\u00a0 <\/span>An organization might approach a player for a salary reduction but without leverage the player can simple refuse.<\/p>\n

In the case of D’Brickashaw Ferguson<\/a> the Jets have none of the elements necessary to force a pay reduction.\u00a0 <\/span>The team restructured the left tackles contract in 2012<\/a> and 2013<\/a> for salary cap relief.\u00a0 <\/span>Ferguson received salary in the form of a bonus with both restructures which allowed the Jets to spread the cap hit over a five year period since he is under contract till 2017. \u00a0<\/span>By doing this they pushed approximately $12 million in salary into future caps.<\/p>\n

If Jets general manager John Idzik asks Ferguson to take a salary reduction and he says “no” what can Idzik do to get him to accept it?\u00a0 <\/span>Ferguson has all the leverage and isn’t going to take a pay reduction since all the bonus money now spread through his contract would be added up counting as a whole on the 2014 if released. \u00a0<\/span>He would count $13 million on the team’s 2014 salary cap and no longer be on the team, better known as dead money.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

A player like Santonio Holmes<\/a> is in a much different situation if John Idzik wanted to lower his salary cause Holmes knows if he doesn’t accept he’ll be released.\u00a0 <\/span>The Jets would gain $8.25 million in salary cap space which could be used to replace him.\u00a0 <\/span>Holmes would have to decide if he’s better off taking Idzik’s offer or testing free agency but in this case the team has the leverage.<\/p>\n

Some feel Ferguson had a down 2013 and while this is debatable players don’t give up money unless they have no choice.\u00a0 <\/span>D’Brickashaw will play under his current contract structure next season and the Jets will have to look elsewhere for salary savings.<\/p>\n

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When a team wants a player to take a pay cut they need leverage to make it happen.\u00a0 This means the player can be released out of their contract and a viable replacement exists.\u00a0 An organization might approach a player for a salary reduction but without leverage the player can simple refuse. In the case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":19323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1337],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"category-home-slider"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Dbrickashaw_Ferguson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-68G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23602"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23609,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23602\/revisions\/23609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}