The Cleveland Browns have been an aggressive team ever since GM Andrew Berry took over the front office. Some hits, some misses but always aggressive especially in spending money and being creative with the salary cap.
This weekend we got a report that the Browns restructured OL Joel Bitonio’s deal to free up almost $8 million. With huge contracts, monitoring what Berry has to spend is interesting. While fans and media talk about the salary cap as a huge thing, teams speak about it as an “accounting tool” more than anything. The cap can be manipulated in a variety of ways especially when you have an owner that is willing to pay money upfront in deals with signing bonuses.