{"id":3029,"date":"2013-02-28T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2013-02-28T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:41:08","slug":"cowboys-restructure-contracts-of-ware-witten-and-carr-to-save-cap-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/02\/28\/cowboys-restructure-contracts-of-ware-witten-and-carr-to-save-cap-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys restructure contracts of Ware, Witten and Carr to save cap space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3030\" alt=\"jasonwitten\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/jasonwitten.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/jasonwitten.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/jasonwitten-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/jasonwitten-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys began working towards lowering their salary cap number by restructuring the contracts of Jason Witten and Brandon Carr.<\/p>\n<p>Witten was slated to earn $5.5 million in 2013 but the Cowboys converted $4.56 of that into a bonus. The Cowboys already have Witten locked up until the 2017 season at which time he will be 35.<\/p>\n<p>Corner Brandon Carr also had his contract restructured. Carr was the Cowboys big offseason signing last year when he agreed to a five-year deal worth $501. million.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday it was announced that the Cowboys had restructured the contract of Demarcus Ware. Ware will make $6 million in 2013 but $5 million of that will be paid in the form of a bonus.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys are also working on restructuring the deals of DT Jay Ratliff, WR Miles Austin, OT Doug Free, and CB Orlando Scandrick.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>While the Cowboys biggest moves thus far have been to trip their salary cap number they did resign long snapper L.P. Ladouceur to a five-year contract. Ladouceur has been with the Cowboys since 2005 and has never had a bad snap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys began working towards lowering their salary cap number by restructuring the contracts of Jason Witten and Brandon Carr. Witten was slated to earn $5.5 million in 2013 but the Cowboys converted $4.56 of that into a bonus. The Cowboys already have Witten locked up until the 2017 season at which time he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[238,35,239,199],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brandon-carr","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys","10":"tag-demarcus-ware","11":"tag-jason-witten"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}