Quote:That's the point. There is no 5 million in savings by cutting him. You guys are only looking at his base salary and not factoring his previous bonuses and how those are assigned to the cap.

 

Cutting him this year would save 1 million this year. He has a player option for 2015, which I assume he will exercise unless he has some outstanding year. Based on his 2015 option, cutting him next year would save 2.5 million for that year. Making it more likely he is cut next year, if at all.

 

Is his contract guaranteed? That's the only way there isn't a real savings.

 

Like I said, the cap savings stuff just doesn't matter on a team with 55 million dollars in cap space, what matters is what is actually being paid, and Alualu has about 5 million dollars in base salary due to him over 2014 and 2015. If that isn't guaranteed salary then cutting him before the season literally saves Shad Khan from having to pay that base salary.

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