Is OTC wrong about Osa's cap hit?

I hear that Osa was traded because he was a total ginger when it came to his cat hit.
 
doomsday9084 said:
When you trade someone, you are still responsible for any money you have paid that guy towards your cap that hasn't hit yet. That means signing bonus.

The team trading for the guy is only responsible for his salary. Osa now has a more reasonable cap hit for SF.
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This is my point. His prorated sided bonus didn't add up to 16 million. It added up to like 1.5 million. So where does the 16 million come from the only dead money cap here should come from the prorated signing bonus?
 
Osa had a $20M sign on bonus spread out over 5 years. 4 x $4M = $16M.
 
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gtb1943 said:
When he was talking to other players after his contract was signed, he told them he expected to play three more years. So this BS that he knew his body was breaking down is just that
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Oh that's what he told them , eh?

Smart guy. You never tell the truth when there's this kind of money to be had.
 
Well yeah we have a dead cap money of 16mill but it does still give us 4.75mill Cap room saved
 
Kwyn said:
There’s more than this, but these are the big ones

Thank Zach for holding out of camp while under contract, sucking and then retiring leaving $25m in dead money

He knew what he was doing, lol.
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........so lets blame the GM that wasn't smart enough to see through this alleged "extortion"?

Dak and his agent get alot of heat for the massive contract but the man that makes that call is Mr. Jerral Wayne Jones and he gets the responsibility for all business decisions.
 
rambo2 said:
He didn't steal money. He deserved everything he got and more.
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No he didn’t. He was at the end, this wasn’t prime Martin. I would have let him sit. I would NEVER let someone under contract sit out for more money.
 
Reid1boys said:
No he didn’t. He was at the end, this wasn’t prime Martin. I would have let him sit. I would NEVER let someone under contract sit out for more money.
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Love the player, but you're right his "hold out" was crap. Since entering the league every contract he got had him towards the top of the leagues pay scale.
 
AbeBeta said:
The dead money of $16,750,000 is offset by his 2026 contact which pays $16,250,000.

You may be misunderstanding the dead money concept.
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@Chasing6 is right. The signing bonus was guaranteed and already paid by the Cowboys.

As long as he was on the roster, they could pay it out over multiple years, but the moment he left the roster (by trade or release would not have mattered), the remaining signing bonus accelerated.

The only option they had was to release him and designate him a post-June-1st release which would have traded a one-time $16 million cap dead money hit and a third round pick with an $8 million dead money hit in 2026 and 2027 and no draft pick.

In this case, the Cowboys were going to lose at least $16 million in cap space whether they kept him, traded him or released him.

The only difference really is they traded $8 million this year in cap space (releasing him instead would have allowed them to wait until 2027 to absorb) for a third round pick.

Not really a hard decision.
 
SoCalBoy said:
It wasn't a June 1st cut so there's no cap hit in 2027. The 16 million cap hit is this year. But it was a trade so there shouldn't be any cap hit. In fact we should have gotten 16 million in cap savings. He didn't have 16 million dollars worth of signing bonuses that would have accelerated to this year. That's why I think OTC might be wrong.
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He had a $20 million signing bonus spread out over 5 years. He played 1 year of the contract, meaning there was $16 million left. Signing bonus money is not like a guaranteed salary; it does not transfer to the new team. That is his dead money rollover from the trade, and it is correct. His cap hit for this year was $20.8; we saved $4.8 off the cap after his dead money.


https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44107892/sources-cowboys-dt-osa-odighizuwa-reach-4-year-80m-deal

FRISCO, Texas -- With free agency closing in and the deadline to use the franchise tag coming Tuesday, the Dallas Cowboys were able to keep one of their own off the market, agreeing to a four-year, $80 million deal with defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa.

The deal includes $58 million guaranteed and a $20 million signing bonus, Odighizuwa's agent, Sam Leaf Ireifej, told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Odighizuwa's salary-cap number in 2025 will be $6.25 million.
 
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Kwyn said:
There’s more than this, but these are the big ones

Thank Zach for holding out of camp while under contract, sucking and then retiring leaving $25m in dead money

He knew what he was doing, lol.
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We had a chance to draft O'Cyrus and passed on him twice for Mazi and Schoonmaker.

Zach seen the obvious flaw of a poor GM and took advantage of it, wit zero depth behind him.

GM's when they have the chance take advantage of Agents and players all the time. No reason for it to not go both ways.
 
SoCalBoy said:
This is my point. His prorated sided bonus didn't add up to 16 million. It added up to like 1.5 million. So where does the 16 million come from the only dead money cap here should come from the prorated signing bonus?
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Contract Details: Odighizuwa signed a four-year, $80 million extension with the Cowboys in March 2025, which included $52-$58 million in guarantees and a $20 million signing bonus.
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So, Dallas absorbed one year of the signing bonus ($4m). That leaves $16m of the $20m signing bonus unaccounted for. I believe there is a void year making it so the $20m gets distributed over 5 years, which is why its $4m per year instead of $5m.
 
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