We can get under with a few simple restructures. Dak will be one of them because his base salary is $40 million. He has a bunch of void years on the back end of his contract that we will push most of that into. Lamb's base is $25 million, so essentially those two restructures cover the $60 million. Anything else would create space. So I don't know if that's what you mean by "major renegotiating." Those restructures are built in and can be triggered by the team exactly for this purpose.
I don't see us signing any top FA because we never sign any top FA. It has little to do with the cap. It is a Jones philosophy. I think we'll work on re-signing a few of our own: franchise tagging Pickens, re-signing Javonte Williams, Clowney, Houston, Adeniji, maybe Donovan Wilson, maybe Fowler, our RFAs and our ERFAs.
I do think we may try to extend Clark's contract to get his cap hit down next year. We will do an extension with Tyler Smith that will lower his hit. We may try to extend Quinnen and lower his hit. We could restructure Diggs, Odighizuwa and Steele.
I mean, despite all we've done this year, we're still $22 million under the cap that we will carry over to next year, according to spotrac. When it's all said and done, next year will likely be similar to that.
Plus, there's this from USA Today: