How Do the Eagles Have This Much Cap Space?

[Chasing6]

The joneses don’t care. They know we as a fan base will blame the players for the cap situation.

I mean don’t the players know how much ad money they can make just for playing in Dallas? They should give team friendly deals!

As long as we are above or around .500 the money will keep flowing. And that’s what Jerry and co really care about. So just wait for the Forbes list and let that be your championship. I know it’s what I look to and take pride in. You should too

AMERICAS TEAM!

Winning the Division has become Jerry's SB.

 

[CowboyoWales]

His agent is certainly going to ask for compensation similar to other quarterbacks in the league who have performed similar to how Dak has performed. Why would his agent suggest signing for less?

Ok, but shouldnt he also concede to a longer contract similar to those his contemporary/comparative QB's are signing?

 

[KingCorcoran]

Ok, but shouldnt he also concede to a longer contract similar to those his contemporary/comparative QB's are signing?

He should. Apparently he has a nastier agent than Hurts’. Of course Jalen just signed his second deal. This will be Dak’s third, and likely last major contract.

 

[CowboyFrog]

Ok, but shouldnt he also concede to a longer contract similar to those his contemporary/comparative QB's are signing?

it depends are we talking the rookies getting extended early which would be the same time or veteran QB's and the lengths of their contracts. Cousins and Russell both signed 4 year deals which is what Dak will ask for

 

[CowboyFrog]

He should. Apparently he has a nastier agent than Hurts’. Of course Jalen just signed his second deal. This will be Dak’s third, and likely last major contract.

jaylen signed a 5 year deal (exstension basically) last year then reowrked it to 4 years this year apparently..same basic time frames Dak had except instead of an exstension on Dak's rookie deal they tagged him twice..so hince pretty much the same time frames the Eagles just extended hurts instead of jacking around with him in the media and tagging him.

 

[Chasing6]

jaylen signed a 5 year deal (exstension basically) last year then reowrked it to 4 years this year apparently..same basic time frames Dak had except instead of an exstension on Dak's rookie deal they tagged him twice..so hince pretty much the same time frames the Eagles just extended hurts instead of jacking around with him in the media and tagging him.

All running QB's should try and get the longest contract possible. Why do you think Lamar was asking for guaranteed money?

He is an injury waiting to happen.

GM's infatuated with running QB's. Good luck paying $60M a year to a QB that has a high risk of being injured.

Pretty soon the NFL will change the rules and say QB's only need to be touched by 2 hands.

 

[Jimbo123]

The joneses don’t care. They know we as a fan base will blame the players for the cap situation.

I mean don’t the players know how much ad money they can make just for playing in Dallas? They should give team friendly deals!

As long as we are above or around .500 the money will keep flowing. And that’s what Jerry and co really care about. So just wait for the Forbes list and let that be your championship. I know it’s what I look to and take pride in. You should too

AMERICAS TEAM!

Dak's"Team Friendly", should be in the neighborhood of $55-57M. That would leave $3-5M to sign a backup RB.

 

[CowboyoWales]

it depends are we talking the rookies getting extended early which would be the same time or veteran QB's and the lengths of their contracts. Cousins and Russell both signed 4 year deals which is what Dak will ask for

OK, id give Dak 4 years at $45m+. Id prefer to up the guaranteed money for the 5th year

 

[KingCorcoran]

jaylen signed a 5 year deal (exstension basically) last year then reowrked it to 4 years this year apparently..same basic time frames Dak had except instead of an exstension on Dak's rookie deal they tagged him twice..so hince pretty much the same time frames the Eagles just extended hurts instead of jacking around with him in the media and tagging him.

It’s the guaranteed money that is significant to players, for obvious reasons. Hurts took $110 guaranteed. Compare that to Watson’s $230 million guaranteed. Eagles had to give Hurts a no trade clause, their first ever, to get an escape clause from his contract after 2025. His deal is not overly restrictive, but he hasn’t done all that much, so far, and he’s only 26. If he turns out to be any good he has another deal in his future. This is Dak’s last shot at a big time deal with massive guarantee. Can’t blame Dak for “going for it”. Especially when he sees Watson’s and Jackson’s deals. He’s certainly earned a bigger deal than Jalen Hurts’.

 

[kskboys]

the second part is what im saying they have not played in FA in a long time because they dont want to...has nothing to do with cap space..they use "Cap space" so the fans dont call them out for being dumb...."We would love to sign some big FA's but we cant because we have to pay our QB unlike the other 31 teams"..its BS

Simply not true. They lack cap space.

 

[Cowboys1966]

Simply not true. They lack cap space.

Bs. They could have easily raised 50+ million just from restructures. Redo Dak and they are over 70m. We could have had the eagles off season.

 

[Chasing6]

Simply not true. They lack cap space.

Out of space by choice.

 

[CTcowboy203]

This team restructured deals, extended guys, released guys and flipped switches to create money via void years and other cap manipulation many times in the past with teams that were way worse than the team they had going into free agency this year. Teams that needed luck and everything to go right to maybe win 10 games and the division.

If they don’t wanna par take in free agency, so be it, I disagree whatever but Stop with the team has no money narrative. Such a farce. They chose not to have money this off season- in a year where just creating some and adding maybe 2 outside free agents on medium deals could have made a huge difference.

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

Because Howie is doing things he knows could get him fired

 

[1942willys]

It’s the guaranteed money that is significant to players, for obvious reasons. Hurts took $110 guaranteed. Compare that to Watson’s $230 million guaranteed. Eagles had to give Hurts a no trade clause, their first ever, to get an escape clause from his contract after 2025. His deal is not overly restrictive, but he hasn’t done all that much, so far, and he’s only 26. If he turns out to be any good he has another deal in his future. This is Dak’s last shot at a big time deal with massive guarantee. Can’t blame Dak for “going for it”. Especially when he sees Watson’s and Jackson’s deals. He’s certainly earned a bigger deal than Jalen Hurts’.

Actually I can blame Dak for going for every dollar. He has what $100 million in the bank now? So he needs $300 million in the bank or his kids go hungry?

 

[Flamma]

Simply not true. They lack cap space.

Bs. They could have easily raised 50+ million just from restructures. Redo Dak and they are over 70m. We could have had the eagles off season.

If they don't intend to extend Dak this season, then they truly do lack the cap space. As far as other restructures go, it's not always wise to push money forward on players you don't intend to keep.

But I think they are going to extend Dak before camp, meaning the lack of cap space is their own doing. Just extending Dak and Lamb would have opened up 40+ million. Now we wait to see what they do with Dak.