News: Browns restructure WR Cooper's contract to create $15 million in cap room

stiletto · Mar 19, 2022

Flamma said:
Cooper's cap hit is just under 5M now. But more money is being pushed into remaining and dead years.

Won't matter, the salary cap is going to explode after the new Amazon TV deal. They say maybe an extra $100+ million. Best year to restructure and kick $$ down the road.

Flamma · Mar 19, 2022

Brax said:
It’s what Dallas keeps doing with Dak and and other high $ players

Yeah I know. And they have to keep doing it with Dak. Then give him another extension. Otherwise the cap hit would be out of hand.

Captain-Crash · Mar 19, 2022

dak couldn't find him when he was scared. (every play), so they are nothing we could do with him. spill some more milk.

Flamma · Mar 19, 2022

stiletto said:
Won't matter, the salary cap is going to explode after the new Amazon TV deal. They say maybe an extra $100+ million. Best year to restructure and kick $$ down the road.

Ideally, yes. But I don't think 100M. Add to that I think the league is still owed cap money from 2020. They didn't take it back all at once.

Beast_from_East · Mar 19, 2022

rocyaice said:
They've restructured everyone. They clearly didnt' want Amari here.

Exactly............We are going to have over $30 mill in cap space on June 1st, barring a major singing but we all know that aint happening, and Cooper's cap hit this year is $5 million. We could have easily afforded that.

Yeah, they probably got pissed he never got vaccinated for Covid and ended up missing a couple of games over it. Jerry even went on the radio and cried about it.

So shipping him to Clevland for a bag of Doritos was their way of "punishing" him..........................it was never about the cap.

AKATheRake · Mar 19, 2022

jazzcat22 said:
And what have other teams done so far that makes them better for this year?

Chargers, Bills and Broncos looking pretty darn good right now.

Zekeats · Mar 19, 2022

Lol!!! Lol!!!! Lol!!!!

Flamma · Mar 19, 2022

BlueStar22 said:
I'm convinced it was the missed games due to covid, non-vax, and attending public events unmasked that did Cooper in more than his lack of production for various reasons. Same for Collins, the suspension and ducking the drug tests were held against him as well. Cowboys can move everyone else's money around but Amari's.

You could be right, I just thought this was going to happen the second they drafted Lamb. I figured they'd move on from Cooper and go with the younger two, Lamb/Gallup. They could have restructured him. But Lamb comes up for an extension next year.

stilltheguru · Mar 19, 2022

Zordon said:
A lot of Cowboys fans are going to have one eye on Amari/Watson next year.

You and @WillieBeamen was out of pocket on Amari from the jump. Now yall got what you asked for. I still don't get how he doesn't get targeted and that=him disappearing. Atleast let me see a bunch of drops and alligator arms which I didn't see.

shabazz · Mar 19, 2022

BlueStar22 said:
I'm convinced it was the missed games due to covid, non-vax, and attending public events unmasked that did Cooper in more than his lack of production for various reasons. Same for Collins, the suspension and ducking the drug tests were held against him as well. Cowboys can move everyone else's money around but Amari's.

my inner child says it was the non vax

cityochamps · Mar 19, 2022

ConstantReboot said:
I stil can't believe we let Cooper go so easily. This offseason has been absolutely a disaster. Most incompetent FO in the league.

It doesn't help that this is not a banner F/A year, it maybe even below average of a typical year, that's why making the right decisions in the draft will make or break us

BobSacamano · Mar 19, 2022

Cooper is a declining POS. Get over him already.

Beast_from_East · Mar 19, 2022

xwalker said:
Managing the cap is not about 'creating room' in the current year.

Would you buy a Ferrari if the dealership offered to let you wait a year to start making payments.
- The projected payment would be more than your current salary.
- The dealership is owned by the Mob (i.e. No chance to avoid paying them back).

You already made a deal with the dealership for you Porsche (Dak) and your BMW that already has some miles on it (Zach). So you had no problems dealing with the mob for those cars, but now you dont want to do it for your Ferrari?

I find that hard to believe, I think it is another reason you dont want the Ferrari, like maybe the Ferrari would not get a fuel injector cleaner when the other cars would. I am pretty sure you know what I am referring to.

Beast_from_East · Mar 19, 2022

shabazz said:
my inner child says it was the non vax

Proof · Mar 19, 2022

jazzcat22 said:
And what have other teams done so far that makes them better for this year?

is this a serious question? lol

Brax · Mar 19, 2022

Flamma said:
Yeah I know. And they have to keep doing it with Dak. Then give him another extension. Otherwise the cap hit would be out of hand.

Correct that’s why you shouldn’t pay elite money for good. That’s why DL is still here also. Other teams make mistakes too but Jerry is the best in the nfl at these kind of mistake, Jerry says this is a Championship team, gets old after 26 years of bumbling

gimmesix · Mar 19, 2022

Beast_from_East said:
They converted his $20 mill base salary for 2022 into signing bonus and added 2 void years to the 3 yrs remaining, thus allowing them to spread the $20 mill signing bonus over 5 yrs.

The net effect to all of this is that Cooper's 2022 cap hit is now only $5 million. Cowboys could have done the same but nope.

And we are going to be sitting here on June 1st with over $30 million in cap space, LMAO

It's probably what they would have done if Gallup had left. It was either/or and really didn't have much to do with needing to create money. As this and Gallup's contract show, we could have had both players this year for a little over $10 million. So both receivers with a cap savings this year. And we still could have made all the re-signings and signings we've done this offseason.

lostar2009 · Mar 19, 2022

Cowboys was a fool for letting him go. Couldve done the same.

zekecowboy · Mar 19, 2022

Captain-Crash said:
dak couldn't find him when he was scared. (every play), so they are nothing we could do with him. spill some more milk.

I suspect Deshaun Watson (tier 1 qb) will be able to find Amari Cooper.

cowboyec · Mar 19, 2022

well...if amari is soft...over rated...over paid and constantly disappears on the road...it wont matter what the hell they do with his money.

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