(10-27-2017, 10:01 PM)Billsfan1212 Wrote: Why this worked for the Bills...
The Buffalo Bills traded Marcell Dareus to theJacksonville Jaguars on Friday night. While the team netted a sixth round draft pick, they also added a lot of salary cap space. Here’s the breakdown.

2017

Buffalo pays Dareus $3.66 of his salary plus a $250,000 workout bonus and saves approximately $6 million dollars in salary. Buffalo won’t have to pay 10/16ths of Dareus’ $9.75 million salary. They have already paid his pro-rated portion of the signing bonus for the year and his workout bonus.

2018

Here is where Buffalo gets saddled with a big $14.2 cap hit. That’s the remaining money from Dareus’ signing bonus. To offset that, the Bills won’t have to pay $9.9 million salary or the $6.4 million portion of his signing bonus already accounted for. Buffalo saves about $2 million, all told, in 2018.

2019

Dareus had a $16.6 million cap hit in 2019. All of that is off the books now. Buffalo won’t have to pay him $8.3 million in salary and won’t have any residual cap hits.

2020

Just like 2019, Dareus won’t count at all. $12.35 million in salary and a $1.4 million portion of his signing bonus is wiped out. His $14.65 million cap hit is gone.

2021

The final year of his contract, Dareus was owed$12.4 million in salary. That’s the Jaguars problem now.

So basically we can cut him at the end of the season for zero dollars or pay him 9 million for 2018 and then cut him after that season for zero cap hit. If he performs like an all pro then I’m fine with paying him? I’m not seeing where the problem is for the jags. It does spund like you guys still I’ll have 14 plus mil in dead money next season for a player that is gone.

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