Don't worry about the salary cap

[bkight13]

We can re-structure Romo and Carr and save around $20M. Cutting Free will save $7M, Conner $3M and maybe do something with Ware, Austin and Sens. We can also borrow $3M from the future and are carrying over somewhere between $2-4M from this year. And I think somehow the $5M penalty may be adjusted or wiped away. We will have flexibility.

[randy932]

Originally Posted by bkight13

We can re-structure Romo and Carr and save around $20M. Cutting Free will save $7M, Conner $3M and maybe do something with Ware, Austin and Sens. We can also borrow $3M from the future and are carrying over somewhere between $2-4M from this year. And I think somehow the $5M penalty may be adjusted or wiped away. We will have flexibility.

Cutting Romo would save $11M.

[MichaelWinicki]

Originally Posted by randy932

Cutting Romo would save $11M.

Not gonna happen.



But they will restructure his contract.

[burmafrd]

we will have room for maybe one somewhat big or two medium FA's.

Another thing to remember is that the veteran minimum goes up every year. So that automatically means more money spent even with the cap at $121 million for the next few years.

[perrykemp]

Originally Posted by bkight13

We can re-structure Romo and Carr and save around $20M. Cutting Free will save $7M, Conner $3M and maybe do something with Ware, Austin and Sens. We can also borrow $3M from the future and are carrying over somewhere between $2-4M from this year. And I think somehow the $5M penalty may be adjusted or wiped away. We will have flexibility.

By restructuring Carr you end up just pushing the cap hit to sometime in the future.

I think it's fine and perfectly logical to restructure players, but if you are always pushing more and more money into future years isn't that how you end up ending up in Salary Cap jail?

[MichaelWinicki]

Originally Posted by perrykemp

By restructuring Carr you end up just pushing the cap hit to sometime in the future.

I think it's fine and perfectly logical to restructure players, but if you are always pushing more and more money into future years isn't that how you end up ending up in Salary Cap jail?

That's very true Perry.

There's a lot of merit in what you're saying.

No sense dredging up all the lousy contracts the Cowboys have given out over the years.

But if you look at Carr's contract, I think it was intended on the get-go to rework it going into year #2.

[burmafrd]

Originally Posted by MichaelWinicki

That's very true Perry.

There's a lot of merit in what you're saying.

No sense dredging up all the lousy contracts the Cowboys have given out over the years.

But if you look at Carr's contract, I think it was intended on the get-go to rework it going into year #2.

certainly does look that way. Realistically his is the best one to do it anyway.

[MichaelWinicki]

Originally Posted by burmafrd

certainly does look that way. Realistically his is the best one to do it anyway.

Yeah.

Too bad the team is shackled with the Free and Ratliff contracts but that's water over the dam at this point.

[supercowboy8]

Originally Posted by randy932

Cutting Romo would save $11M.

Wrong. Romo contract stats that if he is on the roster in 2013 then his next three years are voidable but if we cut him now we will have the restructure bonus prorated from the next 4 years as a cap hit this year.
The prorated bonus would be 18 million cap hit this year if we cut romo.

Romo is on the team next year like it or not. Also we have to restructure his contract so we can get under the cap, meaning he will be the QB for this team for years to come.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tony-romo/

[supercowboy8]

Originally Posted by bkight13

We can re-structure Romo and Carr and save around $20M. Cutting Free will save $7M, Conner $3M and maybe do something with Ware, Austin and Sens. We can also borrow $3M from the future and are carrying over somewhere between $2-4M from this year. And I think somehow the $5M penalty may be adjusted or wiped away. We will have flexibility.

releasing Doug Free will not be a 7 million cap savings.
If we release Doug Free then his signing bonus prorated out will all be a cap hit this year. SO if we release Free he will be a 6.018 million cap hit and only a 3 million cap savings.

[visionary]

Originally Posted by MichaelWinicki

Yeah.

Too bad the team is shackled with the Free and Ratliff contracts but that's water over the dam at this point.

wonder why people keep bringing this up when stephen has said that we can sign whoever we want to (this is actually in the sig line of one of the posters, i think gimmesix)

by inference, therefore, whoever we did not sign or dont sign are guys we did not want to sign

no?

cant have it both ways, either we are 'shackled' or we are not

[Nexx]

almost every team is in the same boat. this is how the NFL works people, lol. i cant believe people still dont understand this.

[yimyammer]

Originally Posted by bkight13

We can re-structure Romo and Carr and save around $20M. Cutting Free will save $7M, Conner $3M and maybe do something with Ware, Austin and Sens. We can also borrow $3M from the future and are carrying over somewhere between $2-4M from this year. And I think somehow the $5M penalty may be adjusted or wiped away. We will have flexibility.

I wonder if Dallas would be better served by accepting the 5M cap hit so Washington has to deal with their 18M cap hit

[jnday]

Originally Posted by MichaelWinicki

Yeah.

Too bad the team is shackled with the Free and Ratliff contracts but that's water over the dam at this point.

When they get rid of these bad contracts, they will find some more stiffs to overpay.

[MichaelWinicki]

Originally Posted by jnday

When they get rid of these bad contracts, they will find some more stiffs to overpay.

Yeah, that can happen.

I suppose every team in the NFL has a sour contract or two.