(08-14-2021, 06:00 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: If you get rid of a player that you signed in free agency, but in the process you gain enough salary cap space to sign an identical player in free agency at some point in the future, what have you lost?  Nothing, really.  It's dumping an asset (Schobert) and a liability (his contract) at the same time.   If the liability is equal to the asset, then eliminating both of them does not generate any loss.  

It's like if you have a car that worth $20,000 on the open market, but you have a car loan in the amount of $20,000.  So you sell it to someone for zero as long as they take over the payments.  There's no loss there.  

There will be plenty of backup-quality ILBs after the preseason cuts that depth won't be a problem.

....but we sold the car for a coupon and still end up making payments on the loan for the next six months.

How often do you not only sell your 20K car, but also agree to keep paying for it on the potential that one of your neighbors decides to put his $5K car up for sale?

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(08-14-2021, 08:15 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(08-14-2021, 02:40 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: It was a salary dump and it was stupid, since we are way under the cap anyway and didn't need the cap relief. It also only leaves us with Quarterman as a capable backup at ILB. Not to mention that 5th rounders normally make the roster 81.1% of the time. That drops to 70% for 6th round picks. That is a steep drop off.

It's never too early to start managing your salary cap wisely.   Savings can be carried over from one year to the next.   And in the very near future, we're going to have to give contract extensions to players at the end of their rookie contracts.   So even though we "didn't need the cap relief" (right now), that doesn't mean we ought to pay that kind of salary to a guy who isn't quite worth it and might wind up splitting time with Wilson.  

The Bills traded us Marcel Darius for a conditional 6th round pick.  He was a very good player, but he had a huge contract and he didn't fit their future plans.  I thought they were crazy at the time, but it worked out for them.  They cleared a ton of cap space and used the money elsewhere.   You can't hold onto guys with big contracts if the don't fit your overall plan.

Our cap hit next year would be the same had we traded him on Friday or if we traded him in Jan 2022. That's a non-argument.

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