Correct. I mean, at least dump players for more draft picks and we can carry on with our day
Believe so.
Yeah but that's how most trades that time of year go. No one is giving up a high draft pick to take on significant cap right at the start of the league year when they can just spend that same money in free agency without giving up a pick. Every team in the league would have had interest in Cooper as a FA, but they also would be able to set their own terms and contract structure for him on a new deal. Teams having interest really has nothing to do with what his trade value was at the time. I'm sure most of the league had interest in Adams before he was traded last week, but most teams didn't want to give up much due to his contract.
You mean what seemed to be half-stepping some plays?
That's inaccurate.
In this case, the "unpaid guaranteed salary" was the entire 2022 base salary. That transferred to the Browns. So from a guaranteed salary perspective, the Cowboys did not have to trade him before that date.
Just telling you what it says.
What it says is his base salary became guaranteed on March 21st. But the Cowboys would not have been obligated to eat that guarantee since they traded him. In other words, if they had traded him to Cleveland on March 23rd 2 days after his base became guaranteed, there would have been no other cap implications for Dallas because the base salary guarantee would simply have transferred to the Browns. So in reality, the Cowboys didn't have to trade him before March 21st in order to avoid some unnecessary cap charges.
Amari's cap hit with the Browns in 2022 was $4.8m and Dallas had about $6m dead cap hit.
True, but the issue is whether trading Cooper at that time for what they got was the best option. Extending him at a lower cap hit and then making the trade like the Browns did made more sense to me. The only caveat is whether CeeDee’s progress would have been stunted.
Jerry overrated the entire receiver group and there may have been a lack of quality depth in that unit.
Because the Browns immediately restructured him upon acquiring him lowering his cap hit. They converted his base salary that year into a bonus and then spread it out over the remaining years on the contract. They cut around $15.2MM off their cap hit that year.
I'll never get upset kicking a 4th rounder for a young QB. It looks like it won't work out, but a 4th in the grand scheme of things is minimal compensation so hard to use that one as an example of getting hosed. The 49ers gave up way more to trade up to get him, and look what the Browns gave away for Watson, or the Broncos for Wilson.
Ok? If they restructured they had to pay long-term cash and commit multiple years at a high cap hit. The contract absolutely depressed his value at the time.
That we did absolutely nothing with
