(04-17-2023, 04:11 PM)The Real Marty Wrote:

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

You're explaining it just fine for your point which is not my point. All I'm saying is I feel better about the future money on the cap when the player is still on the roster when we're dinged for it in the future year. I do not like it when we are attributing cap dollars to players who are not on the roster like the $4 million we're taking for Shaq Griffin this year. Lots of players taking up your cap space who aren't actually playing for you anymore is the risk of all these restructures (see Jags 2003). Look at the Rams, they have ~20% of this year's cap tied up in Ramsey, Floyd, Bobby Wagner, and the 2 year retired Andrew Whitworth; that's the textbook definition of cap hell that I want the Jags to avoid.

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