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I thought that if revenues go down the salary cap goes down. So the player pool goes down. I don’t know how player contracts work but if revenue goes down let’s say 10 percent. Player salaries go down 4%. Owners absorb the rest.
there's no hard and fast rule and it hasn't happened yet.
they can and likely would agree to split any shortfall over multiple seasons.
worst case projections are for 30% reduction. they almost certainly wouldn't drop cap by 30%

BUT, some teams have leveraged 2021 ALREADY and expected 6% growth.
Those teams are gonna feel it.
See Philly and Saints... --Saints could just go really cheap at QB for the year.
 

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Ok, Unless Dak is injured or is straight garbage, he will get the tag. He is just to valuable to let get away for free. If the Joneses are smart Dak will either sign a long term contract or be traded. We fans should win either way.
Yup, he's getting tagged.
Even if he was bad or was injured he has a 4 year history already. 1 pandemic year isn't going to override that.

It's possible DAL trades him or removes the tag later I guess but really unlikely.

Chances are very strong that he has career year. Which is just another reason not extending him was nuts.
He has the same OC but better head coach and offensive weapons with a healthy Cooper, year 3 Gallup and rookie Lamb and an elevated Jarwin.

DAL has some tier 2 and tier 3 FA like most of the secondary but they also have 2 rookie CB and a signed Anthony Brown and we all have Safety as need 1 in next year's draft.
And DAL is on target for like 9 draft picks next year.
 

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I think the luxury of signing anyone else for this year has sailed with the cap reduction.

Besides, we only reactively fill holes as they become glaringly obvious....to the people running the team, which is quite often well after the fans see it.

I agree and it seems some fans are having hard time getting their heads around that not only will cap decrease in 2021 but likely 2022. Teams will start to make adjustments now not when it hits them head on. You will see contraction on non-elite contracts across board.
 

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Good points, do we have any big free agents coming up next year?

Woods. Most of the CBs. Not much there unless someone really breaks out.

LVE is likely someone we'd look to extend if he plays like he did as a rookie but that's not hitting the cap hard for years
 

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Yup, he's getting tagged.
Even if he was bad or was injured he has a 4 year history already. 1 pandemic year isn't going to override that.

It's possible DAL trades him or removes the tag later I guess but really unlikely.

Chances are very strong that he has career year. Which is just another reason not extending him was nuts.
He has the same OC but better head coach and offensive weapons with a healthy Cooper, year 3 Gallup and rookie Lamb and an elevated Jarwin.

DAL has some tier 2 and tier 3 FA like most of the secondary but they also have 2 rookie CB and a signed Anthony Brown and we all have Safety as need 1 in next year's draft.
And DAL is on target for like 9 draft picks next year.
Agree 100% a top 10 quarterback cannot be let go for no compensation.
 

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Chances are very strong that he has career year. Which is just another reason not extending him was nuts.
He has the same OC but better head coach and offensive weapons with a healthy Cooper, year 3 Gallup and rookie Lamb and an elevated Jarwin.

Just out of curiosity, how would you structure a 4 year contract at 35 per? Since there's no years left on his rookie contract no need to get into signing bonus money. It's pretty straight forward now. What would his cap hits be in those 4 years that would make any kind of sense?
 

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Dallas is actually one of the teams in the best shape.
They owe 179M right now for next year and will likely carry over ~10M.
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So with commitments of $179m, but with a pre-Covid CAP being estimated at just $210 how does that put us as being anywhere near "best shape"? Especially as it doesnt include a QB.

Yes we can restructure deals...and our only saving grace is the way that: Zeke, DLaw and Cooper are structured (long, but with limited guaranteed money at the end of the contract) problem is that they are dreadful contracts and i'm sure we'd be looking at the potential to cut them in 2022/23 in any case.

Our CAP position's poor for the next 3 years and the restructuring of the above 3 is something we want to do later rather than doing it now. The cost of restructuring contracts now will cripple us in the future, we'd get much better leverage restructuring after 2021 when we have the threat of cutting them if the

La'lel would demand more money upfront, not less and whilst we are getting outstanding production from Martin and Smith do we want to give them more guaranteed money for mid 30's?
 

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Woods. Most of the CBs. Not much there unless someone really breaks out.

LVE is likely someone we'd look to extend if he plays like he did as a rookie but that's not hitting the cap hard for years

Plus both Safeties, Aldon Smith, Loony, Sean Lee
 

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I still wish we’d release Crawford and use the $16 million in cap room to sign Clowney.

It would improve the team significantly and we’d get a 3rd round pick when he signs somewhere else next season.

Signing Clowney would put a cherry on a great offseason.
Thank you :bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow:
Getting rid of Crawford and getting Clowney would put a cherry on top with whipped cream:yourock::yourock::yourock:
 

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I thought that if revenues go down the salary cap goes down. So the player pool goes down. I don’t know how player contracts work but if revenue goes down let’s say 10 percent. Player salaries go down 4%. Owners absorb the rest.
I believe the cap will just be frozen for a couple years
But even that creates issue as many contract get higher
 

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Ok, Unless Dak is injured or is straight garbage, he will get the tag. He is just to valuable to let get away for free. If the Joneses are smart Dak will either sign a long term contract or be traded. We fans should win either way.

Trading a player under the tag is hard though. He has to agree to the trade which means you need a deal in place and considering the cap situation next year, holding 37 million on the books that you plan to drop is a bluff when everyone knows you will eventually either sign him or cut him.
 

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I believe the cap will just be frozen for a couple years
But even that creates issue as many contract get higher

Dead right.

Some people are looking at ending contracts like Crawford's and claiming we've got an additional $9m to spend, not looking at increases - Coops - $10m, Zeke - $3 and La'el - $7m.....virtually all the other contracts increase by upto $3m.
 

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Trading a player under the tag is hard though. He has to agree to the trade which means you need a deal in place and considering the cap situation next year, holding 37 million on the books that you plan to drop is a bluff when everyone knows you will eventually either sign him or cut him.

I agree that the second tag isnt a guarantee and will mean Stephen restructuring at least one bad contract to fit Dak in for 2021.

We have a ton of holes to patch in 2021 (especially in defense) and OVER THE CAP estimated (pre Covid) that the increase in the CAP would by $17m, which would leave us a total of about $43m (which includes the $9 carried over from 2020).

So with no restructured contracts and including Dak's $38m, we're left with about $5m to patch the roster.
 

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I still wish we’d release Crawford and use the $16 million in cap room to sign Clowney.

It would improve the team significantly and we’d get a 3rd round pick when he signs somewhere else next season.

Signing Clowney would put a cherry on a great offseason.
Or Griffen, but yea.

I don't think Crawford's going anywhere though. I think a restructure would be more likely.
 

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I agree that the second tag isnt a guarantee and will mean Stephen restructuring at least one bad contract to fit Dak in for 2021.

We have a ton of holes to patch in 2021 (especially in defense) and OVER THE CAP estimated (pre Covid) that the increase in the CAP would by $17m, which would leave us a total of about $43m (which includes the $9 carried over from 2020).

So with no restructured contracts and including Dak's $38m, we're left with about $5m to patch the roster.

Except with COVID and the recent deal now finalized it looks as though the cap will be about 175m (possibly a little higher if things go really well). That is a 42m swing which gives the Cowboys just 1m in cap space. That means a LOT of restructures which will likely render a lot of players uncuttable (DLaw, Zeke, Cooper are the musts) as well as big extensions needed to create more space for Martin and Tyron. Basically the players are going to get a lot of money because the cap will go down for 1 year as weird as that sounds.
 
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