Same Old Redskins
Jason La Canfora, whose blog is also in contention for best New Artist, has the details on Jon Jansen's contract.
The important thing to note here is that Washington appears to be doing business as usual. Which means endlessly finding ways to push cap hits into the future by paying more money upfront. Washington will save more than $3 million against the cap this year, but they will owe Jansen $10 million guaranteed in the next two seasons. And unless he's still playing near a Pro Bowl level at age 33 in two years, the contract could get ugly.
It already is ugly for Mark Brunell. We believe he has a $6.84 million cap hit for this season, which is a lot for a backup quarterback coming off shoulder surgery. He'd be nearly as expensive to cut.
The Washington Post reports that the Redskins will try to re-structure Brunell's contract, but we don't think they are allowed. Unless I misunderstand the league rules, you can't restructure the same contract twice in a year. They just re-did Brunell's deal in December to survive last year's salary cap.
Unless Washington and Brunell come up with some verbal agreement under the table which La Canfora implies was the case with Jansen, then Brunell's salary will stay the same.
Either way, the Redskins are stuck in a bad spot. One would think they would have learned from their past mistakes by now.
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