How much dead cap money comes off the books next year?

[Bungarian]

The Miles Austin contact should not have happened. 5 million in dead money next year.

 

[Bungarian]

Cap could increase 4 million next year.

http://www.csnwashington.com/footba...ursday-cbs-deal-will-increase-2015-salary-cap

 

[Hoofbite]

it would be nice if romo gave some of his money back. i'm not sure if nfl players are allowed to do that.

Hahahaha.

 

[xwalker]

A selfless person who would do whatever it takes to make an attempt to win it all by allowing an acquisition or two to help the team.

Dirk has given up a huge amount of money to allow the Mavericks to sign more players. He probably could have made 100M more in his career if he went for max money.

 

[lostar2009]

And this is why it is smart to push $ forward rather than play "pay as you go" - it is like using a credit card with a negative interest rate. The money you push forward is a smaller % of the cap than in the current year

They should resign Dez to a contract or at the least attempt to resign some of the lower tier players like Carter or Harris. The reason why this team always have dead money is from the restructuring of contracts or pushing money back. Just pay players what they are owe in guranteed money and get them off your books is my motto.

 

[Vanilla2]

I will. Because I can tell you money isn't everything and there are some things it can't buy. If I've already earned as much as he has at this point in my career I would.

When I say reduce, I'm not saying eliminating the majority of that 27 mil, I would agree to reduce it down to 17-20 million dollar range. That 7-10 can give us two additions on defense.

So you'd be willing to give up roughly 20% to bring in some help for your team/company?

I want a raise.

Where do you work?

 

[xwalker]

Will it create enough cap space to be able to resign Murray, Ro McClain, Carter and Dez if the team wants to?

When they roll the extra cap space in 2014 into 2015, then cap space will be as follows (prior to new contracts for Dez and other players):

2015 $8,649,992 ($17,649,992 if they don't keep Henry Melton)
2016 $45,663,399
2017 $71,249,769

They could create over 20M more space in 2015 if they wanted to push money into 2016 with restructures of Romo, Tyron, etc..

As stated in another post, they're not dead in the water if Romo gets re-injured and has to be cut. His huge base salary would be replaced with dead-money, but the actual cap space wouldn't change much with or without him on the team. If his replacement was a rookie 1st round pick, then that player would have a reasonably low salary.

Summary: They have a lot of flexibility in regards to the Salary Cap. They'll be fine as long as any new big contacts go to players that are healthy and producing.

 

[cowboys1981]

So you'd be willing to give up roughly 20% to bring in some help for your team/company?

I want a raise.

Where do you work?

First off, what Romo makes is more than anyone can dream of. You can look at % and I'll look at $. If I was making 27 mil next year, I'd give up 20% easily! Nice try on that spin.

 

[xwalker]

They should resign Dez to a contract or at the least attempt to resign some of the lower tier players like Carter or Harris. The reason why this team always have dead money is from the restructuring of contracts or pushing money back. Just pay players what they are owe in guranteed money and get them off your books is my motto.

@AbeBeta is correct in that a team is operating at a disadvantage if they don't push money forward.

If 2 competing businesses were basically equal, but one had access to bank loans and the other didn't, the one with access to the loans would have an advantage. Obviously that advantage could be negated if the business with access to loans had an incompetent management team, but if the management teams are similar, then the one with access to loans has an advantage.

 

[big dog cowboy]

No because when Romo calls it a career, we'll be on the hook for $30 million.

Oh brother.

 

[Nightman]

Cap could increase 4 million next year.

http://www.csnwashington.com/footba...ursday-cbs-deal-will-increase-2015-salary-cap

I think the cap will be closer to 150m next year. The revenue is there and the formula is pretty straight forward. The owners colluded to keep it artificially low during and after the lock-out, but they can't hold it down any longer now that the new TV deals are starting.

 

[Zordon]

Hahahaha.

what's so funny? didn't doug free just get forced into a paycut?

there is a reason dirk nowitzki will have statues built of him in the city of dallas when he retires.

 

[CyberB0b]

I went to a lot of trouble explaining Romo's contract.

Romo's 2015 cap hit is 27.7 million. His dead money if he retired would be 27.4 million. We would actually open up 300k against the cap.

Any what's more likely is that if Romo wanted to retire we would make him a June 1st cut and spread that hit over two years. The dead money for 2015 would be 10.7 million, which would then open up an additional 17 million dollars against the cap. The dead money for 2016 would be 16.6 million, which would be a cap hit of 8 million.

The Cowboys really do have a tough decision to make regarding Romo in 2015, he has a really high base salary, and you have to ask yourself at this point if it makes sense to prorate that further. The answer is probably not. A lot depends on how this year goes, but as big a Romo fan as I am, it might make sense to move on after this year. Especially with the offensive weapons that we have. The money can be used towards the defense.

The Brandon Weeden Era scares me.

 

[CCBoy]

The Brandon Weeden Era scares me.

Why? Quarterbacks can be replaced similar to other positions, and trades are still available...even now.

 

[SDCowboy]

Yeah i agree he should not have to give anything back.But i never thought ge was worth that +100 million. Also trust me Romo has made more errors than Brady and Manning long careers combine. Sure Romo can be that comback kid aganist that sub 500 team but until he put in some REAL work its all flash no substance to me.

You don't think Romo, a top 10 QB, is worth the going starting QB rate? What?

 

[rynochop]

Why? Quarterbacks can be replaced similar to other positions, and trades are still available...even now.

I take it you werent a fan during the post Aikman days

 

[CCBoy]

I take it you werent a fan during the post Aikman days

Why the hell go there?...the talk was on a replacement status....at least pay attention.

 

[cowboys1981]

what's so funny? didn't doug free just get forced into a paycut?

there is a reason dirk nowitzki will have statues built of him in the city of dallas when he retires.

Manu Ginobili and even Duncan have done so as well. I find it funny peope think this is some sort of new idea started in CZ.

 

[Jenky]

I could have sworn Tom Brady took a paycut a couple years ago, to bring in more receivers.

 

[Eddie]

A selfless person who would do whatever it takes to make an attempt to win it all by allowing an acquisition or two to help the team.

If that were the case, Romo would not have signed that future crippling contract. But he was more than happy to sign on the dotted line.