MyFairLady
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It is simple. Like a credit card. You simply push the payments forward into the next year. that way you are never truly bad. You are just average forever.
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What Does NFL’s $208M Salary Cap Ceiling for 2022 Mean for Cowboys?
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I'm not sure you understand restructures. Basically it converts salary into bonus to spread out the cap hit. The player doesn't take a penny less and they get the money up front instead of over time. It's a huge benefit for the player with no downside. Plus, because it builds up so much dead money that hasn't yet hit the cap it makes it that much harder for the team to cut the player down the road if they start to not be worth their contract
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Sean Lee 2019
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That was because he was going to get cut otherwise
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Still a pay cut
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The team could cut or trade him post June 1. Go to spotrac and search Elliott. 2022 would be a wash with $16M in dead cap but saving $16M on cap. 2023 would see $6M in further dead cap. Trading him is much easier on the cap. Cowboys could sweeten a trade by eating some of Elliott’s contract.
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Always look at the base salary. Everything else is just an accounting exercise on money that has already been spent. If the player stinks and has a large base salary cut them and minimize the damage. Do not do what Jerry does and hang on forever in desperation mode.
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Just FYI..
The ultimate team player Sean Lee took a pay cut in 2019 to stay with the Cowboys.
It takes a special player to understand his play on the field didn’t warrant his salary.. side note: I wonder if Jaylon would consider a salary cut( we already know the answer)
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Every year we hear the same thing but the FO always seem to work it out, ALWAYS! And just an FYI, restructuring doesn’t always mean that the following year (2023) will be worse. There several ways to move money around to count in futures years where there will be a larger cap, released contracts and also expiring contracts.
The Eagles was suppose to be 37 million over the cap this past year, they found a way. Two years ago the Chargers was supposed to be over by 30 some million, they found a way. And this year the Saints was supposed to be over 30 some million (without Breese contract) and they found a way.
Again they always make it work!
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You're absolutely right.
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And every year we can't afford to sign any good free agents from other teams. You don't think it's related? And yes restructuring, which is what is being discussed, does always mean the following years will be worse. When you convert salary to bonus, that bonus needs to hit the subsequent years caps, so you have increased the cap hits in those years by teh exact same amount that you decreased the current year.
You can always (ALWAYS!) do the math to get under in the short term. That doesn't mean the problem goes away. You need to get rid of contracts or not sign/resign guys, not just push the cap hits back or you just created a long term problem out of a short term problem. How long has it been since we could consistently be active participants for top free agents in addition to resigning our own? Oh yeah, it's still going on...
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I never concern myself with the salary cap. It has a way of getting worked out. This is the 1st time I seen where we may be over the cap. Everything I seen before said we would be in decent shape. So what happened to make this change. It was not all Dak's contract was it really?
Anyway, it will work itself out.
Anyway, it will work itself out.
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I am not a Dak hater. I think getting him signed for the long term was an imperative. But Dak demanded a 4 year deal, which his deal is, because he WANTS to renegotiate an even bigger deal when this one is up. That means he will take into account the salary CAP, whatever it increases to, and make his demands for the most money he can get. If he wanted $40 million this time, he is going to want a similar over the top deal in the future. Any thoughts that at some point Dak is going to be a bargain for Dallas should be tossed out that window. It is never going to happen. But the salary CAP problem is not just about Dak. It is really about overpaying multiple players including Lawrence, Cooper, Zeke and Jaylon Smith. The Cowboys, who refuse to sign free agents because they are overpriced, have no problem overpaying their own guys. Will they ever learn?
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I totally believe that if there was a free agent that they really wanted to sign, they would sign him.
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Not sure why the same people continue to be freaked out by cap space...but it is all incredibly easy to manipulate. The players don't care a bit about it...because generally it means they get a lump sum up front rather than having to wait each week. As it stands right now, we would roll over 6m to next years cap, reducing the overage to 18m. Doing restructures on Dak and Lael take care of that and put us in the black. Unless Jaylon has a big bounce back year, chances are he is gone, which will save anywhere from 5m to 9.2m depending on when it is done. I think unless Cooper goes off, he is gone next year....saving us anywhere from 16m to 20m depending on the timing. And that would allow us to resign Gallup, which I think is the smarter move than keeping Cooper. If Lawrence doesn't live up to his $$$, he could be a goner as well, saving anywhere from $8m to 19m.
If this team breaks out and has a great year, it will be harder to make the decisions....but I think chances are that even with a great year, Cooper and Jaylon will be gone. We drafted replacements for the LBs so they are less of a concern. So we restructure Dak and Lael for sure, saving 20m, and cut Jaylon and Cooper outright, saving 21m. That puts us in the black about 23m. Tank either gets restructured or cut...so lets just say we get 12m there with the restructure. We have 35m with no significant loss in personnel.
If we do really bad, that means our studs haven't done their jobs and we can do a mass renovation and start all over rebuilding around Dak.
The sal cap is the least of our worries.
If this team breaks out and has a great year, it will be harder to make the decisions....but I think chances are that even with a great year, Cooper and Jaylon will be gone. We drafted replacements for the LBs so they are less of a concern. So we restructure Dak and Lael for sure, saving 20m, and cut Jaylon and Cooper outright, saving 21m. That puts us in the black about 23m. Tank either gets restructured or cut...so lets just say we get 12m there with the restructure. We have 35m with no significant loss in personnel.
If we do really bad, that means our studs haven't done their jobs and we can do a mass renovation and start all over rebuilding around Dak.
The sal cap is the least of our worries.
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Exactly right. If the top paid players do not perform up to their contracts they should let them go to restore CAP health. another problem with restructuring is it pushes more CAP into the years when Dak's CAP impact is the biggest.
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