At least 11 million in wasted cap space

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From what I can see we are wasting at least 11 million in 2015 cap space on:

Miles Austin, Kyle Ortin, BW Webb, Uche Nanweri, Matt Johnson, Keith Smith, Dakota Watson, Amobe Okoye, are just some of the names on the list that we are paying for dead money.

Does anyone know if these players are pure cap hits or how does that work? I can't believe we owe any of these guys anything. Absolute Robbery
 
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coult44 said:
From what I can see we are wasting at least 11 million in 2015 cap space on:

Miles Austin, Kyle Ortin, BW Webb, Uche Nanweri, Matt Johnson, Keith Smith, Dakota Watson, Amobe Okoye, are just some of the names on the list that we are paying for dead money.

Does anyone know if these players are pure cap hits or how does that work? I can't believe we owe any of these guys anything. Absolute Robbery
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Dead money is just part of the salary cap business. Every team has some dead money. And some years are worse than others.

Deal with it.
 
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We've gotten it down to under 8% of the salary cap? Jerry/Stephen deserve a pat on the back for working that down. It seems pretty good but I would like to see a team by team comparison to see how we stack up against the rest of the league.
 
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coult44 said:
From what I can see we are wasting at least 11 million in 2015 cap space on:

Miles Austin, Kyle Ortin, BW Webb, Uche Nanweri, Matt Johnson, Keith Smith, Dakota Watson, Amobe Okoye, are just some of the names on the list that we are paying for dead money.

Does anyone know if these players are pure cap hits or how does that work? I can't believe we owe any of these guys anything. Absolute Robbery
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It is not real money, it's dead money against the cap.

Dead money comes from bonuses tnat were paid to players in previous years but did not all count against the cap until later years.

There will always be some dead money but the Cowboys likely have the less dead money in 2015 than they've had in many years.
 
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Overthecap has us at only $8 mil.

Watson and Okoye are still on the roster, but cutting them would get us closer to $10m. Idk where $11m comes from.
 

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coult44 said:
From what I can see we are wasting at least 11 million in 2015 cap space on:

Miles Austin, Kyle Ortin, BW Webb, Uche Nanweri, Matt Johnson, Keith Smith, Dakota Watson, Amobe Okoye, are just some of the names on the list that we are paying for dead money.

Does anyone know if these players are pure cap hits or how does that work? I can't believe we owe any of these guys anything. Absolute Robbery
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we don't owe them anything outside of any guaranteed money, which I don't believe we do. this is called dead money, which is contractually based. every team has dead cap money
 
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I don't see 11 million; only 7 million and that is made up of primarily 2 contracts--Austin's and Orton's.

It might not be "real," but it has real-world consequences--The Cowboys will not be able to spend 7 million of their allotted cap space on players actually contributing to the team.

The Cowboys did a good job of dumping a lot of bad contracts this season; to the tune of 27 million in cap charges. But again, that was 27 million of the allotted cap space that could not be used to improve the roster.

When you have a team that was a close as this one, that 27 million was extremely costly. Imagine if we had had 27 million in cap space to upgrade the defense? With that kind of space, we could have easily signed a Julius Peppers and he could have been stripping ball-carriers for us.
 
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daveferr33 said:
I don't see 11 million; only 7 million and that is made up of primarily 2 contracts--Austin's and Orton's.

It might not be "real," but it has real-world consequences--The Cowboys will not be able to spend 7 million of their allotted cap space on players actually contributing to the team.

The Cowboys did a good job of dumping a lot of bad contracts this season; to the tune of 27 million in cap charges. But again, that was 27 million of the allotted cap space that could not be used to improve the roster.

When you have a team that was a close as this one, that 27 million was extremely costly. Imagine if we had had 27 million in cap space to upgrade the defense? With that kind of space, we could have easily signed a Julius Peppers and he could have been stripping ball-carriers for us.
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If they had 27m in dead money last year that meant they created 27m in cap space in the previous 2-4 years when it was needed more. The cap was lower then so the percentage is lower by pushing it forward.

Dallas was way under the cap last year and didn't restructure Carr or Witten and took the entire Ware cap hit instead of splitting with this year. It is just simple math and accounting and if Dallas wanted to sign Peppers or ANYONE else they could have.
 
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What we need here is one of them there auctioneer's.

Then we'd know.
 
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