Cardinals Restructure Berry Contract

Bertrand Berry, who has missed around 21 games with injuries in the last three seasons, has restructured the final year of his contract with the Cardinals. The Cardinals actually have around negative (!!!) 2 million in cap space this offseason, and this kind of activity is very necessary. Part of the reason the situation is so bad has to do with poor free agent signings as well as having top ten draft picks in the last million drafts (just a rough figure) , therefore having to annually give out at least one massive contract. There are some pretty poorly run teams in the NFL (off the top of my head the Chiefs and GM Carl Peterson as well as the Lions and the Cards probably top my list), but the Bidwells (who own the Cardinals) own probably one of the worst. Part of the reason for this has to do with the team's location. Arizona gets very little in the way of prime time game slots as well as being kind of a dead zone(I think the last time I watched them play was in the preseason against the Raiders) and for this reason potential Free Agents see it as void of any prospect of a Pro Bowl berth (with several notable exceptions) or any post season prospects. But part of this, or perhaps all of it, can be blamed on the Bidwells. TV Slots are given out based on performance in previous seasons and if you don't have a winning team you don't get put on Monday Night Football. Furthermore, although a new stadium had multiplied the Bidwell's wealth by some ridiculous number, they remain some of the stingiest owners in terms of facilities. Ken Whisenhunt, embarassingly for the Cardinals, had to request that they update their weight room and training facilities before he would consider signing with them as their new Head Coach. The Cardinals, because of their undesirable situation and location, are forced to perennially overpay decent free agents and completely miss out on the opportunities to sign great ones. Look at Al Johnson, a marginal centre who they have on the roster this year for 4.5 million dollars. Another example would be their DEs, Chike Okeafor and Bertrand Berry. They get these guys in the twilight of their careers, get marginal production from them, but are forced to sign them to huge contracts befitting of veterans. They go to Arizona because they just want to have a couple years more collecting million dollar paychecks. Three or four years later, seeing how their investment has become a complete bust, they resign him to an incentive laden contract because the fact is they don't have any other options. The situation is completely insane. It shocks me that a franchise like this can go on existing in Arizona when the NFL still has nothing in Los Angeles. I know that the nearby Raiders and 49ers would never go for it, but it would benefit the league as a whole.