Remember the Structure of Amari Cooper's Contract

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For everyone that is about to start a thread complaining about Amari Cooper's contract averaging 20 Million a year, remember that the total dollar amount of the contract is a very small part of the picture.

Zeke's contract was the "biggest RB contract in history" at 6 years and 90 Million. 15 Million per season. But the contract doesn't have a cap hit that big until the fourth year of the contract.

These are the cap hits for the first three years of that record breaking, 15 Million dollar a year contract:

2019 - 6.3 Million

2020 - 10.9 Million

2021 - 13.7 Million


Amari's contract is NOT going to take up 20 million in cap space next year.
 
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Yup. Cooper will take home a lot of money on Wednesday when the pen dries, but with the rule of 30% I can't see the Cowboys wanting that cap hit higher than it has to be the first few years.
Probably expect it to have a decent base in year 2 or 3 to possibly restructure too
 
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John813 said:
Yup. Cooper will take home a lot of money on Wednesday when the pen dries, but with the rule of 30% I can't see the Cowboys wanting that cap hit higher than it has to be the first few years.
Probably expect it to have a decent base in year 2 or 3 to possibly restructure too
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I'm not sure that rule exist in the new cba. Read that the new cba made structuring of contracts easier.
 
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I'm not sure that rule exist in the new cba. Read that the new cba made structuring of contracts easier.
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Oh interesting. I still haven't read much into it outside of the highlighted parts by a few news sites.
 
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Kaiser said:
For everyone that is about to start a thread complaining about Amari Cooper's contract averaging 20 Million a year, remember that the total dollar amount of the contract is a very small part of the picture.

Zeke's contract was the "biggest RB contract in history" at 6 years and 90 Million. 15 Million per season. But the contract doesn't have a cap hit that big until the fourth year of the contract.

These are the cap hits for the first three years of that record breaking, 15 Million dollar a year contract:

2019 - 6.3 Million

2020 - 10.9 Million

2021 - 13.7 Million


Amari's contract is NOT going to take up 20 million in cap space next year.
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And at 5 years, we are going to have a restructure next year that basically makes years 4 and 5 the biggest hits if we keep him.

At that time, he'll be like the 10th highest paid WR.

Why am I even posting this. Literally every big deal follows this trajectory
 

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They are structuring contracts to where the big hits come when the club also has an opt out clause. That’s huge. Also timing as well. With the Zeke contract the dead money drop off occurs at the same time Pollard’s contract comes up so Dallas will have a decision to make with that in a few years. Same with Amari although Gallup May be a year earlier I’m not really sure. When Gallup’s contract comes up the FO will have an idea whether Gallup can be a #1 WR or not and not lose much if they have to move on from Amari.
 

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They are structuring contracts to where the big hits come when the club also has an opt out clause. That’s huge. Also timing as well. With the Zeke contract the dead money drop off occurs at the same time Pollard’s contract comes up so Dallas will have a decision to make with that in a few years. Same with Amari although Gallup May be a year earlier I’m not really sure. When Gallup’s contract comes up the FO will have an idea whether Gallup can be a #1 WR or not and not lose much if they have to move on from Amari.
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Kaiser said:
For everyone that is about to start a thread complaining about Amari Cooper's contract averaging 20 Million a year, remember that the total dollar amount of the contract is a very small part of the picture.

Zeke's contract was the "biggest RB contract in history" at 6 years and 90 Million. 15 Million per season. But the contract doesn't have a cap hit that big until the fourth year of the contract.

These are the cap hits for the first three years of that record breaking, 15 Million dollar a year contract:

2019 - 6.3 Million

2020 - 10.9 Million

2021 - 13.7 Million


Amari's contract is NOT going to take up 20 million in cap space next year.
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Exactly right!

Same thing will be true when Dak gets his deal.
 

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Appreciate it. Been lurking for a few months since the scout/247 site went to crap.
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Sir, you're welcome! I joined the site in April, 2004, and many months passed before I made my initial post. I still don't post much, but I get my Cowboys news here, daily. Please enjoy your stay here.
 
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People would cry and complain to no end if Dallas would have let him go to the Commanders. ‘Threw away a first round pick!!”

However, people would also freak out and complain if Dallas signed him. “Too much for a WR”

The moral of this story: People are going to complain no matter what. Just tune them out.
 
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Agreed but it goes both ways

You can structure it like that but it means there isn't a solid out in the forth year

If he starts disappearing again or has his usual "undisclosed injury" then tough luck, little cap relief for year 4 (your basically forced to keep him)
 

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So if we could do that with Cooper, why not do it with Byron? :huh:I mean the cap is going up anyway right? By that time all these deals would look great with respect to the new cap.
 
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Eanwen said:
So if we could do that with Cooper, why not do it with Byron? :huh:I mean the cap is going up anyway right? By that time all these deals would look great with respect to the new cap.
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I don’t think they ever intended on signing Byron.
 
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batman36 said:
Sir, you're welcome! I joined the site in April, 2004, and many months passed before I made my initial post. I still don't post much, but I get my Cowboys news here, daily. Please enjoy your stay here.
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I lurked for about a year or 2 before making my first post.
 
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