Galian Beast
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I keep hearing people talk about giving up on Romo. Let's pretend as if there was a consensus that thought that was a good idea.
Do these people realize that we're at least 20 million dollars over the projected cap next year?
Let's look at scenario
A) Release/Trade Tony Romo
That is a 21 million dollar cap hit, making us at least 41 million dollars over the cap. You'll never be able to cut enough players to recover from that.
B) Cut Romo in June
This is a more modest cap hit. That's a cap hit of 500k dollars. At first you might think it is manageable. Except when you realize that it would almost make it impossible to get under the cap. You could restructure Ware, Carr, Witten, and Lee, and you would still be over the cap by 750k dollars. And you would be over the 2015 cap by 3 million dollars, and it would be much more difficult to manage that cap by releasing any of those players in 2015 since you just restructured them, and don't have the QB's salary to work with.
This on top of losing your franchise quarterback.
C) Don't restructure Romo, have a terrible season because we have essentially the same defense as last year minus Hatcher and whoever else you have to cut in order to get under the cap. And then I guess you could cut Romo the following year when his dead money changes from 41 million to 20 million, but again you're taking the risk that you're going to find a franchise qb in the draft (despite the fact that teams around the league do it over and over again and fail). You could either take the full 20 million hit in 2015 or you could spread it 8 million in 2015 and 12 million in 2016.
I think it is hilarious how desperate people want to plunge us into the depths of Jacksonville and Cleveland. When we have a QB who has been in the top 10 in every year he has ever played in the league.
Do these people realize that we're at least 20 million dollars over the projected cap next year?
Let's look at scenario
A) Release/Trade Tony Romo
That is a 21 million dollar cap hit, making us at least 41 million dollars over the cap. You'll never be able to cut enough players to recover from that.
B) Cut Romo in June
This is a more modest cap hit. That's a cap hit of 500k dollars. At first you might think it is manageable. Except when you realize that it would almost make it impossible to get under the cap. You could restructure Ware, Carr, Witten, and Lee, and you would still be over the cap by 750k dollars. And you would be over the 2015 cap by 3 million dollars, and it would be much more difficult to manage that cap by releasing any of those players in 2015 since you just restructured them, and don't have the QB's salary to work with.
This on top of losing your franchise quarterback.
C) Don't restructure Romo, have a terrible season because we have essentially the same defense as last year minus Hatcher and whoever else you have to cut in order to get under the cap. And then I guess you could cut Romo the following year when his dead money changes from 41 million to 20 million, but again you're taking the risk that you're going to find a franchise qb in the draft (despite the fact that teams around the league do it over and over again and fail). You could either take the full 20 million hit in 2015 or you could spread it 8 million in 2015 and 12 million in 2016.
I think it is hilarious how desperate people want to plunge us into the depths of Jacksonville and Cleveland. When we have a QB who has been in the top 10 in every year he has ever played in the league.
