(10-25-2018, 11:31 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(10-25-2018, 10:45 AM)Kane Wrote: They should have just let him play out the option. IF he balled out then you hook him up with a top 5 QB contract. If he didn't (he isn't) then you let him go with no hit to the cap.
Even with the offsets, we'll still have "dead cap" money for a season or two.
Which isn't terrible... as long as we cut some corners and save some dollars elsewhere (likely on the DL)

I agree about him playing on the option.  If he’s cut before next season, though, the dead cap would only be for next year.  It would be somewhere between $10 million and $16.5 million depending on how much Bortles is signed for elsewhere.  There would be no dead cap in 2020.  A rookie playing on a rookie deal
would seem to be the smart plan going forward especially when factoring in Bortles’ dead money.  Given the fact that keeping him next year puts his cap hit at $21 million, I’d say it’s almost a certainty that he either restructures or more likely is cut outright.  Unless he balls out going forward, which doesn’t seem likely.