Buffalo Bills have 24.2 Million in dead money, topped only by the Cowboys

[Bluefin]

The majority of dead money this season is DeMarcus Ware ($8.5715M) and Jay Ratliff ($6.928M).

The team is attempting to recoup the money/cap space for Jay Ratliff.

The bonus money is question totals $9.66M.

I'm not optimistic about Dallas' chances, but they are in the right regarding this matter.

 

[DandyDon1722]

The majority of dead money this season is DeMarcus Ware ($8.5715M) and Jay Ratliff ($6.928M).

Miles Austin ($2.7494M) was a June release, so his biggest dead money money hit will come next year ($5.1062M).

The other dead money hits of note this season are Nate Livings ($2.1M), Marcus Spears ($1.4M) and Kyle Orton ($1.1275M).

So we're in pretty good shape next year I assume?

 

[Doomsay]

As an aside, how the heck do the Buffalo Bills have so much dead money?

They want, and need a new stadium - to further extort the local populous.

 

[Bluefin]

So we're in pretty good shape next year I assume?

It looks fine right now.

The unadjusted 2015 salary cap is expected to exceed $140M.

If Dallas restructures Tony Romo ($12.824M) and Tyron Smith ($8.2352M), restructures or releases Henry Melton ($6.604M or $79895M) and Doug Free's contract voids ($6.53M), they can create more than $34M in cap space with just those four moves.

 

[Zman5]

Orton goes from one mess to another, and he deserves it!

Dude could be making 8million dollars this year for doing absolutely nothing. I wish I could go one mess to another like him.

And I thought he was just another dumb drunk.

 

[d_dub88]

That's unsurprising given the release of Ware. We've been tight the last three years, no doubt.

One day, though, I'd also like to see a list of unused cap space for each time. They probably exist and just don't get as much play in Dallas, where that isn't a problem. But you know there are teams that put themselves at a similar competitive disadvantage by not using all the cap available to them each year.

That makes me think of Philly during the McNabb years. So close to having a winning team but to cheap to pay for one.

 

[Nation]

So we're in pretty good shape next year I assume?

Depends if we have to take the Carr to the junkyard

 

[plymkr]

Is Miles Austin the only heavy hitter for dead money on next year's cap? Is his 5 million the only dead money or is there more but Austin is the biggest. I assume there's more but I'm asking if there is any other big dents in the cap like Austin's. And I really hope we do not send Carr packing quite yet. Not next year anyways, I'd like to improve that front 7 before discarding Carr, and even Mo for that matter. I am disappointed in their play but the front 7 can make a corner's life heaven or hell.

 

[big dog cowboy]

It looks fine right now.

The unadjusted 2015 salary cap is expected to exceed $140M.

If Dallas restructures Tony Romo ($12.824M) and Tyron Smith ($8.2352M), restructures or releases Henry Melton ($6.604M or $79895M) and Doug Free's contract voids ($6.53M), they can create more than $34M in cap space with just those four moves.

Thanks for posting this.

 

[Nightman]

It's just accounting tricks.

If you create 40m in cap space with restructures and end up with 20m in dead space, you are still ahead of teams that use straight line accounting.

With the cap likely to rise by at least 5% again every year and the ability to roll over any un-used cap space, Dallas is in great shape cap wise. They are still 9m under the cap, so it hasn't stopped them from signing anyone.

 

[theSHOW]

As an aside, how the heck do the Buffalo Bills have so much dead money?

The owner died.

rip RW

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

Dude could be making 8million dollars this year for doing absolutely nothing. I wish I could go one mess to another like him.

And I thought he was just another dumb drunk.

He's a loser but gets a pile of $$$$$. Not bad for a loser. He'll be able to afford plenty of that JW Blue Label.

 

[Floatyworm]

The majority of dead money this season is DeMarcus Ware ($8.5715M) and Jay Ratliff ($6.928M).

Miles Austin ($2.7494M) was a June release, so his biggest dead money money hit will come next year ($5.1062M).

The other dead money hits of note this season are Nate Livings ($2.1M), Marcus Spears ($1.4M) and Kyle Orton ($1.1275M).

Now there is some guys to break the bank on...

My guess is .....everyone thinks we're gonna have money to spend in 2015 or 2016....but I gotta feeling their gonna cut Lee as well and that is gonna eat most of the cap. It's gonna be long days in Dallas for a while. Until we get a coach that knows how to lead Jerry and the salary cap it's gonna be a mess

 

[Longboysfan]

Steve Johnson ($10.225M)
Ryan Fitzpatrick ($7M)
Mark Anderson ($3M)
Rian Lindell ($1.375M)

Thank you.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Dead cap money is only an issue when you start releasing players that are still productive and the replacement is far worse because you don't have the salary cap money to keep that player(s) on the team.

We got rid of Miles Austin because he was oft-injured. And Terrance Williams is as good if not better.

We got rid of Ware because he was becoming oft-injured. We will see on Lawrence (I'm more angry about us trading up to get Lawrence)...but I tend to think that Lawrence and a backup would be more productive than Ware who missed games to injury and was at best going at 70%.

Ratliff is being replaced by Melton. And at this point, if Melton play half a season he will be *far* more productive than what Ratliff was for us the past 2 seasons.


The other part to cap hell is not getting quality performance out of your replacements. Otherwise you're just getting lousy performance, but at a lower cap hit. It's better than the alternative, but doesn't translate into winning more.

I think we will get quality production from Williams at WR. I'm not so sure about Lawrence and Melton as them being able to stay healthy is worrisome.

In the end, dead money is not always as bad as it is made out to be.






YR

 

[conner01]

Dead cap money is only an issue when you start releasing players that are still productive and the replacement is far worse because you don't have the salary cap money to keep that player(s) on the team.

We got rid of Miles Austin because he was oft-injured. And Terrance Williams is as good if not better.

We got rid of Ware because he was becoming oft-injured. We will see on Lawrence (I'm more angry about us trading up to get Lawrence)...but I tend to think that Lawrence and a backup would be more productive than Ware who missed games to injury and was at best going at 70%.

Ratliff is being replaced by Melton. And at this point, if Melton play half a season he will be *far* more productive than what Ratliff was for us the past 2 seasons.


The other part to cap hell is not getting quality performance out of your replacements. Otherwise you're just getting lousy performance, but at a lower cap hit. It's better than the alternative, but doesn't translate into winning more.

I think we will get quality production from Williams at WR. I'm not so sure about Lawrence and Melton as them being able to stay healthy is worrisome.

In the end, dead money is not always as bad as it is made out to be.






YR

very good point. the real key to being able to move on from high dollar players is finding their replacement in the draft. that totally off sets the cap issues. what kills you is having to hit the free agent market to replace a guy who is still costing you big money. then you have a double hit.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

very good point. the real key to being able to move on from high dollar players is finding their replacement in the draft. that totally off sets the cap issues. what kills you is having to hit the free agent market to replace a guy who is still costing you big money. then you have a double hit.

Potentially, this is correct. But, if the FA pickup is at a low enough price, then it may not be a double hit against the cap. I think Melton's contract works like that for us.

This is a big reason why I favor stockpiling draft picks.

While I think Lawrence may be good, I would have preferred to see us stockpile picks and potentially draft 2 DE's in rounds 2-5 rather than trading up and giving away our 3rd round pick and then counting on Lawrence to meet expectations *and* stay healthy. I have no problem with waiving Ware and having the dead money because at this rate under this HC and strength and conditioning coach...he wasn't going to stay healthy.




YR

 

[Doomsday]

So we're in pretty good shape next year I assume?

Dallas has just under $8 million in dead money next year according to this site. http://overthecap.com/salary-cap/dallas-cowboys/

 

[BlindFaith]

Dead cap money is only an issue when you start releasing players that are still productive and the replacement is far worse because you don't have the salary cap money to keep that player(s) on the team.

We got rid of Miles Austin because he was oft-injured. And Terrance Williams is as good if not better.

We got rid of Ware because he was becoming oft-injured. We will see on Lawrence (I'm more angry about us trading up to get Lawrence)...but I tend to think that Lawrence and a backup would be more productive than Ware who missed games to injury and was at best going at 70%.

Ratliff is being replaced by Melton. And at this point, if Melton play half a season he will be *far* more productive than what Ratliff was for us the past 2 seasons.


The other part to cap hell is not getting quality performance out of your replacements. Otherwise you're just getting lousy performance, but at a lower cap hit. It's better than the alternative, but doesn't translate into winning more.

I think we will get quality production from Williams at WR. I'm not so sure about Lawrence and Melton as them being able to stay healthy is worrisome.

In the end, dead money is not always as bad as it is made out to be.






YR

Yeah, get back to me when the Cowboys, who are/were the top team in dead money ever win anything. With all of this extra spending and it being such a wise decision we should be killing it, not getting killed.

Maybe the other 31 teams don't agree with you that dead money isn't always a bad thing.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Yeah, get back to me when the Cowboys, who are/were the top team in dead money ever win anything. With all of this extra spending and it being such a wise decision we should be killing it, not getting killed.

Maybe the other 31 teams don't agree with you that dead money isn't always a bad thing.

Take a guess who has the lowest 'dead money.'



Oh....I'll answer that for you.


Tampa Bay.

Who went 4-12 last year.

There is no substantial *mathematical* correlation to winning and dead cap money.

So, you can have low dead money...and the statistics shows that it does not suggest you are more likely to win.

If it did, I would have a problem with having dead money.


But, there's a reason why dead money doesn't mean jack. Sometimes it is good to have dead money. Sometimes it is bad. It depends on who is being replaced and how well the replacement performs.





YR