(04-17-2023, 04:03 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(04-17-2023, 03:31 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: Dead cap money hits the cap whether he's here or not.  That's what I'm saying.  So whether you plan to keep a guy or not, that makes no difference in whether you want to push the accounting into the future.  The money's already been spent.   The only decision is whether you want to pay him his base salary and keep him on the team.

When you push a cap hit into the future, you're not pushing the payment into the future.  The payment has already been made.  So if you want to push a cap hit into the future, whether that player is going to be on the team makes no difference in the decision.  Because the money has already been paid.  The team is just doing a little accounting trick to shift a cap hit from one year to the next.

So you're saying you don't care if a guy taking up 13 million of your cap isn't on the roster. Got it. I bet you have a swell time every year on Bobby Bonilla Day.

That $13 million of dead cap money has nothing to do with any decision to keep a guy on the roster.  The money is gone.  Paid in a previous year.  

You don't seem to get it.  Maybe I'm not explaining this very well.

Whether he's on the team or not, that money is gone, already paid out.  We just used an accounting trick to push the accounting from one year to the next.  If I want him on the team, it's not because he's got a big dead cap hit.  It only has to do with his value to the team and his cost in terms of base salary not yet paid out.  Because that dead cap hit is going to be there whether he's on the team or not.

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