Tagging Lawrence will eat up $17 million immediately, bringing us to $1 million in cap space.
The team will have to restructure contracts just to allow us to sign our draft picks and retain some of our own FAs. Being that our starting QB makes under a million per year, it's quite unfortunate that we won't be able to take advantage of his low paying rookie contract thanks to cap mismanagement by the FO.
But, we can do whatever we want in FA... except we actually can't. Which is why the team hasn't signed anyone in FA of note since Brandon Carr.
I think it is just that Stephen Jones is obnoxiously cheap. Listening to him at the combine explain why he though what we did last year wasn't bargain bin shopping solidified that notion for me.
There are contracts that are sure to be restructured procedurally like TFred's. We could leverage a lot more quite easily more and use the savings down the road we get from extending Martin --and not spend it-- to keep us in decent shape. I expect we might spend if Dez, Hitch, or Cooper is not retained but elsewise I see them sticking to Steve-o low risk specials.
I don't know about a lot of cap mismanagement though. The only significant dead money is Romo and he had to end his run short due to injury.
I know a lot of people want to leverage all our assets and spend a lot in FA but I am not a fan of the idea. I want sustained success and leveraging like means you have to blow up your team after a couple of years. Look at Denver.
I do wish they would do surgical strikes like NE, Pitt, and GB is known for doing though.
