Twitter: Dallas restructured the deals of Zeke and La'el today

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USArmyVet said:
Dallas again pushing money down the road because what does Jerry care as he will be dead by the time Dallas has to deal with all the cap damage him wanting Coop and Dak back and signing Smith. Lawrence, and Zeke to dumb *** contracts.
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That is what all teams do. Restructuring of contracts to free up money is not just Dallas. Cowboys have managed their cap better than most. hell fans here whine about not jumping in FA with high priced FA yet throw a hissy over restructuring key player deals? Anything to slam Jerry.
 
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Elliots deal doesnt free up any money, what i think this was about is his roster bonuses in 2021, or 2022. Maybe this might be the last yr of elliot? Elliot has a dead cap of 14.9mil in 2021, and 10.8mil in 2022. A June 1 cut would cut those in half freeing up 6.25 in 2021 or 11.1mil in 2022.
 
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Very surprised they haven’t just gone ahead and cut Chris Jones already.
 
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I don't expect them to spend big money on outside FAs that's why I wondered about doing the restructures now. I figured they had enough cap to sign their own without doing restructures at the moment.
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From what I understood in a report I heard this morning, it only freed up a couple of million. The projected cap had been 200m and it actually came in at 198m. It could be that they had their plans so tightly focused that they wanted that extra 2

this wasn’t massive deal restructures, more like going to have your teeth cleaned or having your cars AC checked before summer
 
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Si.com explains this as procedural in how the Cowboys do their contracts now. Saying they have it planned when they make the deal. In Elliots case they restructured his roster bonus into a signing bonus. They're saying this has something to do with the team going after tier 1 FA. Could they be going after Harris?
 
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Zeke didn’t save any cap, it was strictly a language and payment timing move. Collins only saved $4 million. They would still have $24m in space had they not restructured Collins. There’s nothing precluding them from going after a FA they want. The restructure savings are purely buffer that’ll likely go unused and just pay for itself in rollover.
 
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LatinMind said:
Si.com explains this as procedural in how the Cowboys do their contracts now. Saying they have it planned when they make the deal. In Elliots case they restructured his roster bonus into a signing bonus. They're saying this has something to do with the team going after tier 1 FA. Could they be going after Harris?
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Good lord.

People have been explaining this here for like 10 years.
 
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LatinMind said:
Si.com explains this as procedural in how the Cowboys do their contracts now. Saying they have it planned when they make the deal. In Elliots case they restructured his roster bonus into a signing bonus. They're saying this has something to do with the team going after tier 1 FA. Could they be going after Harris?
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I don’t see any players that I would consider Tier 1. I would have preferred to overpay Byron Jones with our extra money. That would have been a valuable FA signing.
 
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ksg811 said:
Zeke didn’t save any cap, it was strictly a language and payment timing move. Collins only saved $4 million. They would still have $24m in space had they not restructured Collins. There’s nothing precluding them from going after a FA they want. The restructure savings are purely buffer that’ll likely go unused and just pay for itself in rollover.
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Again it's basically things they plan on doing when making the deal. For future purposes. As next yr elliot had a clause if he's on the roster on the 22nd his entire salary is guaranteed. This this just pushed his roster bonus to a sb which gets prorated into 5 yrs. Lower the cap hit for 2022 instead of 2.5mil roster bonus he will have 560k extra added to his pro rated signing bonus. Saving the team 2mil on the cap. I just posted what si.com said. But reading it this is more likely the case. Apparently the team does this alot.
 
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ThatJerryKid said:
I don’t see any players that I would consider Tier 1. I would have preferred to overpay Byron Jones with our extra money. That would have been a valuable FA signing.
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In big moments like the 4that quarter byron Jones was a liability. Miami is going to regret that contract.

People want to say dak amari elliot aren't worth what they got. But byron is worth the top money of any db? That's laughable. Dak has the production but byron is worth that huge deal because he had health covering him 90% of the time?
 
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Again it's basically things they plan on doing when making the deal. For future purposes. As next yr elliot had a clause if he's on the roster on the 22nd his entire salary is guaranteed. This this just pushed his roster bonus to a sb which gets prorated into 5 yrs. Lower the cap hit for 2022 instead of 2.5mil roster bonus he will have 560k extra added to his pro rated signing bonus. Saving the team 2mil on the cap. I just posted what si.com said. But reading it this is more likely the case. Apparently the team does this alot.
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That’s wrong regarding Zeke’s contract. There is no cap impact neither this year or in the future. I’m not sure if that’s you or SI but that’s wrong information. Both signing bonuses and option bonuses are prorated over a max of 5 years.
 
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