Cowboys have 19.3 million in cap space

jterrell said:
This is how to NOT look at the cap or any financial situation.

DAL is 2nd in dead cap money because of this in 2018. Almost 30M in players no longer around.
Tony Romo isn't saving us money, he is costing us money and we have to pay his replacement.
Same as Jay Ratliff and other guys before them.

With injuries and rapid decline year over in this league is utter lunacy to automatically assume a guy will be available and worth more money next year than he is now.

The other teams with high dead money:
Bills at 9 wins
DAL with 9
NYG with 3
49ers with 6
Browns with 0
Jets with 5
Chiefs w 10 is first team to have 10 wins on the list.


The Pats have 6M in dead cap.
Eagles 10.8M.
DAL started the year 20M behind both.

This is very much like real ife.
A dollar saved is a dollar earned.
Money can be rolled over yearly.
Leveraged future money is still leveraged and is still playing odds nothing goes wrong.

Interest free loans are still loans and have to be repaid and include penalties for missed payments or late payments.
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Like I said your grasp of the cap and finance in general is very juvenile and basic

Would you rather make 30m and a 10m bill for expenses
make 20m and get 5m in bills
or 10m and get 0m in bills

I would take option 1 and 20m in profit..... it takes money to make money..... Dead Money is just a ledger entry for Salary Cap money already spent in the past when the cap was lower ...... NO interest NO fees...... NO penalties
 
Nightman said:
I think you missed the point

No one ever said going all in wouldn't accomplish anything...... I said going all in is lot different than leaving 25m+ salary cap money unspent

How about we leave 5m unspent and spend another 20m on some good players that WILL help this team and not worry so much about 2-3 years from now when the cap will go up and several large contracts will be gone
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Who are they going to spend it on that is going to make the difference? That's the point. If it's not (which I don't think it would), then it would be foolish to spend it when you would be better off saving it for when you really could make a difference.
 
Nightman said:
Like I said your grasp of the cap and finance in general is very juvenile and basic

Would you rather make 30m and a 10m bill for expenses
make 20m and get 5m in bills
or 10m and get 0m in bills

I would take option 1 and 20m in profit..... it takes money to make money..... Dead Money is just a ledger entry for Salary Cap money already spent in the past when the cap was lower ...... NO interest NO fees...... NO penalties
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Again, this is nonsense.
DAL isn't earning cap cash, they are assigned the same as everyone else and competing year after year with the same set pool of money. No one gets extra space based upon it's use so "taking money to make money" is truly utter garbage in this case.

Reducing your future year's allotment significantly by leveraging it now is insanity that only makes sense if you win.
So basically 1 team every year would be proven smart for operating on your cap credit card design.
The other 31 would be reducing chances of future success without the success they wanted to achieve.

Dallas figured that out about 3 years ago when they did a post mortem on why they couldn't win many playoff games with a top 10 all-time QB rating guy on the roster for a decade.

Reason 1 was over-reliance on high priced free agents that did not pan out.
Reason 2 was utilizing this credit card method to obtain interest free cap loans to themselves.

Dallas has figured this out and changed approach.
 
Kevinicus said:
Who are they going to spend it on that is going to make the difference? That's the point. If it's not (which I don't think it would), then it would be foolish to spend it when you would be better off saving it for when you really could make a difference.
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ding. ding, ding... it is a finite resource and HOW you spend it is in fact the key to winning.
there is zero rewards for spending it all. ZERO.
but there is a penalty for borrowing from future seasons once you get to those seasons.
 
Kevinicus said:
Who are they going to spend it on that is going to make the difference? That's the point. If it's not (which I don't think it would), then it would be foolish to spend it when you would be better off saving it for when you really could make a difference.
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Trades for good players on bad teams with big contracts
 
Zekeats said:
If it's not spent this year does it carry over into next year?
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Not only will it carry over but the total cap is looking like it will go up another $10 million next year as well (cowboys are in a good spot financially).

Cap carries over and you have to spend at least 89% of the total cap of a four year period. The current 4 year period started last year (so 2017-2020 is the current period). In that combined four year span you need to spend 89% (every team made the 89% rule for the 2013-16 period)
 
Kevinicus said:
Trades...so, it's not just cap space then. And which good players? Are we trading for a QB?
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That is the only option left....... FA and the Draft are over for the year

We can comb thru the scraps like usual but the Irvings and RoMcClains have a lot of fleas

JJones says we aren't interested in a QB but we can trade for a FS and OT
 
Nightman said:
That is the only option left....... FA and the Draft are over for the year

We can comb thru the scraps like usual but the Irvings and RoMcClains have a lot of fleas

JJones says we aren't interested in a QB but we can trade for a FS and OT
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So, basically, you want to give up draft picks (or players) to acquire players who very likely aren't going to make a real difference, and spend a lot of cap dollars doing it. This, rather than saving both picks and money and using them at a later date where they can be more valuable and actually accomplish something?

That's a bold strategy.
 
Kevinicus said:
So, basically, you want to give up draft picks (or players) to acquire players who very likely aren't going to make a real difference, and spend a lot of cap dollars doing it. This, rather than saving both picks and money and using them at a later date where they can be more valuable and actually accomplish something?

That's a bold strategy.
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Not a word you said is what I said.....nice try
 
csirl said:
On Cole Beasley, I dont see why we would want to give a large guaranteed contract to a WR approaching 30 years old. Especially one who wasnt that interested in playing football in the first place. Think about all those players who sit back when they get their likely final large signing bonus.
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Your forgetting that he is Daks go to guy.
 
I think the team is aware that players like Elliott, Dak, Demarcus Lawrence and others will be coming due for contracts in the future and are likely thinking ahead to be prepared to provide them with whatever they feel is merited at that time. We now have some players on both offense and defense that we're likely wanting to keep around for some time to come. I think that's got much to do with them preparing for that time to come. They've got to be ready to take of those who produce and want to be rewarded accordingly.
 
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