steelers restructure ike's contract....again

[Psycho Ward 86]

Read more: http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/10/...aylor-contract

With roughly $200,000 in salary cap space, the Pittsburgh Steelers were in a precarious position with more than half the season remaining. Pittsburgh added some extra operating room this week by restructuring Ike Taylor's contract.

The Steelers converted the rest of Taylor's base salary into a signing bonus, giving them about $1.5 million in additional salary cap space this season, according to Alan Robinson and Mark Kaboly of TribLive.com. Taylor had a base salary of $6 million this season, according to Spotrac. By converting his base salary into a signing bonus the Steelers can spread the cap hit over 2013 and 2014, the final year of Taylor's contract.

[Tommy8Gun]

Hmm. Interesting decision. I didn't know the Steelers had current cap issues for this season.... or do they?

[Count Steeler]

Our salary cap woes continue. If there isn't a big rise in the cap next season, it is going to get real ugly around here.

[steelreserve]

Are you shitting me? They do know things don't get any better next year if we keep dumping salary forward like this - right?

[Psycho Ward 86]

i would have liked to see the steelers talk to ike taylor and his agent and have this restructure on the table as a possibility incase we need extra bodies to sign. But to do it before that necessity has happened, i dont really understand?

[salamander]

We're so screwed with the cap.

[steelreserve]

i would have liked to see the steelers talk to ike taylor and his agent and have this restructure on the table as a possibility incase we need extra bodies to sign. But to do it before that necessity has happened, i dont really understand?

Yeah, seriously. What's the point of doing it now? If we don't spend the money, it's not like we get to keep it; in fact it just makes things worse.

[stillers4me]

Maybe there's somnethng going on before the trade deadline?

[st33lersguy]

The FO will have to start giving out some pay cuts.

[86WARD]

wow...

[zulater]

We suck and we're taking a ton of dead money into the future. Nice plan!