2025 Salary Cap space and dead money for all 32 teams

Hawkeye0202 said:
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Under this heading is as good a place to rant.

There is no point looking at one years CAP in isolation, especially when the contracts Jerry prefers are based on high Signing Bonus and Prorated. You need to look at the following years: Year 1 isnt the problem, its Years 2 and 3 that the CAP hits get pushed into.

Yes 2025, in isolation looks extremely healthy.....but look at 2026 ($42m - Ranked 25th in availability) and 2027 ($80m - Ranked 28th in availability).....and that's only accounting for 13 Players (and the rest JAG's).

Jerry, is right in a way, we need some advancement and improvement from what we've got: Especially the recent draft picks, which really have hit (albeit, some of it down to injury). He's also right to be cautious of the: Bland, Smith and Parsons contracts (and that they ALL need to to commence in different years to spread the 1st year benefit).

I'm not saying dont spend anything, but its a lot more nuanced than have money, spend money.
 
We really need Guyton, Beebe, and Mazi to improve. I still got hope for Beebe and Guyton, a lot of hope for Beebe. Mazi is not looking good.

I feel draft picks not panning out hurts a team just as much as a bad FA signing. Which confuses me with Jerry and company being so conservative with FA but risk taking with draft picks, Ala Kelvin, Sam Williams, Mingo.

I feel a busted draft pick between rounds 1-4 can be just as bad as a FA bust. I just wish, and hope, this offseason we find that delicate balance between the draft and FA.
 
plymkr said:
We really need Guyton, Beebe, and Mazi to improve. I still got hope for Beebe and Guyton, a lot of hope for Beebe. Mazi is not looking good.

I feel draft picks not panning out hurts a team just as much as a bad FA signing. Which confuses me with Jerry and company being so conservative with FA but risk taking with draft picks, Ala Kelvin, Sam Williams, Mingo.

I feel a busted draft pick between rounds 1-4 can be just as bad as a FA bust. I just wish, and hope, this offseason we find that delicate balance between the draft and FA.
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I'm sure it does hurt a team when draft picks don't work out but the difference...it doesn't hurt the pocket book as much compared to a high-priced FA
 
McCarthyMustGo said:
New England could buy alot of players.
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They can do anything they want...........drafting 4th overall means they can probably trade for any player. I'm pretty sure Vrabel will try and get the most value from the draft this high coz he hopes to be closer to the bottom going forward.

He wants AJ Brown ( his former player with the Titans ) really bad. If a team makes a trade/fit for Parsons it's the Pats. Coach, draft position, cap space, owner, roster..........
 
Hawkeye0202 said:
They can do anything they want...........drafting 4th overall means they can probably trade for any player. I'm pretty sure Vrabel will try and get the most value from the draft this high coz he hopes to be closer to the bottom going forward.

He wants AJ Brown ( his former player with the Titans ) really bad. If a team makes a trade/fit for Parsons it's the Pats. Coach, draft position, cap space, owner, roster..........
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Please take AJ gosh that guy makes catches when it's needed every time
 
CowboyoWales said:
Under this heading is as good a place to rant.

There is no point looking at one years CAP in isolation, especially when the contracts Jerry prefers are based on high Signing Bonus and Prorated. You need to look at the following years: Year 1 isnt the problem, its Years 2 and 3 that the CAP hits get pushed into.

Yes 2025, in isolation looks extremely healthy.....but look at 2026 ($42m - Ranked 25th in availability) and 2027 ($80m - Ranked 28th in availability).....and that's only accounting for 13 Players (and the rest JAG's).

Jerry, is right in a way, we need some advancement and improvement from what we've got: Especially the recent draft picks, which really have hit (albeit, some of it down to injury). He's also right to be cautious of the: Bland, Smith and Parsons contracts (and that they ALL need to to commence in different years to spread the 1st year benefit).

I'm not saying dont spend anything, but its a lot more nuanced than have money, spend money.
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Yea, but the NFL is fluid when it comes to cutting or trading players and freeing up cap. The Saints for years have turned -50mil to +, and have even been able to sign dumb deals like Carr's deal with the mess they've made since the Drew Brees era.

I don't think anyone wants Dallas to spend all 54 mil on long term 5 year mega deals that also are ballooned.

2026 they'll restructure Dak again. If CDL is still elite, he'll be restructured.
Supposedly the team isn't happy with Diggs, they can cut him to free up 12mil. Steele can be cut for 9mil.
2025 they were -2mil before the restructuring.

Years 1-3 of an extension in reality are very cheap when talking about cap, as long as the player is still playing well, the team will restructure and 2-3 years of the cap hit aare way under the AAV. In my opinion, these are the windows to actually compete, knowing in 4 years you have to make tough choices. But tread-milling like Jerry has done gets you no further, IMO.
 
Coogiguy03 said:
BREAKING NEWS: So we REALLY only have 34 million really to play with???
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No, we have $54 million to play with. The dead money is already accounted for. Over-the-Cap estimated the Cowboys have about $49 million in effective CAP space. This accounts for the rookie pool which is you draft players, they have to be paid and it counts against the CAP.
 
plymkr said:
We really need Guyton, Beebe, and Mazi to improve. I still got hope for Beebe and Guyton, a lot of hope for Beebe. Mazi is not looking good.

I feel draft picks not panning out hurts a team just as much as a bad FA signing. Which confuses me with Jerry and company being so conservative with FA but risk taking with draft picks, Ala Kelvin, Sam Williams, Mingo.

I feel a busted draft pick between rounds 1-4 can be just as bad as a FA bust. I just wish, and hope, this offseason we find that delicate balance between the draft and FA.
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I agree. But the Cowboy's problem is (among many) is they won't admit when a draft pick is a mistake. I think Jerry thinks it diminishes his "status " as a "football guy" to say "Oops. We missed on that one".
 
How the Eagles are managing to give Barkley and Baun new contracts and maintain $19 million in CP space is some voodoo magic. The pushed $21 million from Barkley's contract into 2027, a voidable year. They already have a ton of money in voidable years for 2027. Baun just got $17 million per year on a 3 years deal and I will be a lot of that is pushed into voidable years in 2028. The Eagles are mortgaging their future big time.
 
Creeper said:
No, we have $54 million to play with. The dead money is already accounted for. Over-the-Cap estimated the Cowboys have about $49 million in effective CAP space. This accounts for the rookie pool which is you draft players, they have to be paid and it counts against the CAP.
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then what about this rollover money, where's that at?
 
Hawkeye0202 said:
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I'd love one that showed void year money spent as well. The Eagles have a ridiculous amount of money there. Thats how they are able to navigate the cap as well as they have.
 
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