ESPN: Offseason financial health-Cowboys greatest dead and least committed money to date

[Meat-O-Rama]

How much money does ESPN have, and they couldn't pay a programmer to make the table sortable?

 

[xwalker]

Wouldn't that just be Austin's money?

Austin, Free and Orton.

Free had fake years added to the end of his contract which results in dead-money even if he plays out his contract.

Orton is the same as Free; although, there is a small chance that they get money back if he retires. It appears that he will force them to cut him. What can they do if he comes to the mandatory practices and just throws the ball into the ground on each snaps?

If they cut Orton and don't re-sign Free, the total is about 11.3M. That's still better than 23M in 2014 and 30M in 2013.

 

[Redball Express]

Please don't sign any over priced FA and pay our home grown talent. continue to draft well and know when to release players.

You mean like the Patriots do?

 

[speedkilz88]

Austin, Free and Orton.

Free had fake years added to the end of his contract which results in dead-money even if he plays out his contract.

Orton is the same as Free; although, there is a small chance that they get money back if he retires. It appears that he will force them to cut him. What can they do if he comes to the mandatory practices and just throws the ball into the ground on each snaps?

If they cut Orton and don't re-sign Free, the total is about 11.3M. That's still better than 23M in 2014 and 30M in 2013.

On Orton. Assuming he doesn't report, I think they just put him on a suspended/did not report list and fine him. I don't think they have to cut him. Rat muddied the waters a little bit since he was supposedly injured.

 

[xwalker]

On Orton. Assuming he doesn't report, I think they just put him on a suspended/did not report list and fine him. I don't think they have to cut him. Rat muddied the waters a little bit since he was supposedly injured.

Agree. The problem is if he reports. What do they do then? They don't need another malcontent on the team.

 

[Nightman]

Agree. The problem is if he reports. What do they do then? They don't need another malcontent on the team.

They should just cut him if he skips the mandatory OTAs. Forgo recovering the signing bonus and save the 3.25m in salary and against the cap this year. Take the 2.2m dead money hit in 2015 and move on. They basically got Weeden for free.

As I understand it, there is a question about how much of the 5m bonus is recoverable anyways, since they may have added the voidable years after he restructured in 2013. Then they would have to wait until 2015 to get the money and cap space back anyways. The money he has been paid is not outrageous for 2 years of a top backup QB.

 

[casmith07]

It's also 33 million currently not in use for players right now. Detroit has about 2 million meaning they are using all their resources they can for the upcoming season. And they are as successful in today's game as we are which shows they are many ways to fail in the current NFL.

This is a good point. You actually don't want to have a ton of space. It means you aren't maximizing your resources.

 

[casmith07]

Agree. The problem is if he reports. What do they do then? They don't need another malcontent on the team.

They cut him, or he retires at this point.

 

[Doomsday101]

least committed money in large part because Dallas got pretty young as a team pretty quickly. Many of the young players are still on rookie contracts, no doubt Dez will increase that amount but Dallas avg age dropped significantly