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rpr52121 · 12-13-2022, 08:27 PM

(12-13-2022, 03:33 PM)SeldomRite Wrote:
(12-13-2022, 03:21 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: Cap isn’t real. It’s very easily manipulated from year to year.

The cap is real, it's just that it almost doesn't matter when you're only paying for players you want to keep. You can just move money out using signing bonuses. The cap is a problem when your team has to keep players they don't want because of the dead money and can't afford better players because of that.

Like I said, if they want to keep guys like Agnew they can do so. The real question is figuring out who is worth paying on this roster, because it's been a bad team, so clearly not everyone is worth keeping at more than the vet minimum.

If they are lucky they can carry over about ~$5 million from this year to next year. Cutting Roy-Roberson Harris, Griffin, Chaison and restructuring Jenkins gets that closer to ~$10-11 million. Cutting Agnew to save ~$4 million is a major question.

The will seriously have to look to restructuring some of the big signing guys like Cam, Scherff, and/or Oluokun(each would save ~$8-9 million in 23 but then you are definitely tied to them for 24 and have some dead money in 25).

Restructuring Foley may make some sense as you only save ~$4-5 mil, and but Darious makes no sense given you want to cut in him 24 and it only saves ~$5-7 million.

Say they do all of that except restructure Darious, and they restructure Zaye and Cooke as they seem them as long term pieces, they could have ~$50 million in cap space.

This is all before figuring out what to do with Engram and Taylor. And they would be tied to all of them for 23 and 24. They would also have some major dead money in '25 if they move on from any of those top 3 guys instead of resigning them which will be an issue as that will be contract time for Ridley and Allen as well as good depth guys in Davon and Bartch.

Though, if they keep winning games, the incoming draft class will have a smaller cap hit.

This all comes back to what position group can this coaching staff develop with minimal investment. They really need one to have create a consistent contender.