Miles Austin's contract restructured

[big dog cowboy]

@clarencehilljr: The Cowboys announced the center Ryan Cook and receiver Miles Austin have also restructured their deals

Outstanding job by Stephen.

 

[SportsGuru80]

Good news...

 

[SkinsandTerps]

Commanders actually made a trend. Who knew ?

What is that cap hell they speak of ?

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Commanders actually made a trend. Who knew ?

What is that cap hell they speak of ?

The sad thing is that despite you guys doing it since 1999, the yahoos around here still don't get it. They still claim cap hell.

That being said a 15% reduction in your cap has to hurt. Tell Snyder to hurry up and file suit.

 

[SkinsandTerps]

The sad thing is that despite you guys doing it since 1999, the yahoos around here still don't get it. They still claim cap hell.

That being said a 15% reduction in your cap has to hurt. Tell Snyder to hurry up and file suit.

That cap hell thing was a threat unrealized by any team, even under the circumstances that both teams are facing right now.

I am hoping for an all out situation, where the collusion involved teams let it go (more than just the Cowboys and Commanders). I do also think it is a bag of worms that could put the NFL under a tighter microscope.

 

[sonnyboy]

Free's Cap hit this year will be $10.020.000. $960.000 from that are bonuses, $7.000.000 base salary and $2.060.000 prorated signing bonus.

Free is signed throu 2016 but because a SB ist only spread out over 5 years he has no prorated one in his final year. So if we cut him right now we will take 3x $2.060.000 = $6.180.000 against the cap and free up 10.020.000. That leaves us with nearly $4mills of cap savings for 2013.

To me that is good amount of money saved.

If we cut Free after June 1st the left SB can be spread over 2 years. So esentially we take only 1/3 of the hit in 2013 and 2/3 of the hit in 2014. So cutting Free after June 1st we would save around $8mills against the 2013 cap.
Because Free would have had a base salary of $8mills in 2014 and a bonus of $960.000 we would save then around $5mills against the cap instead of the whole $9mills if we had cut him prior June 1st.


The thing i would do is ask Free to take a significant pay cut and let him battle for the starting position. He is due to $8mills in base salary 2013,2014,2015 & 2016. If we could cut that just in half and we could keep the player and safe the same amount of money this year. We can still cut him without the big SB impact next year if he doesn't bounce back.

Good work and good thinking. I like the idea of trying to work out salary reduction with him and letting him compete.

I'd like something that knocks his 2013 base down to the league minimum with very generous incentives for starts in 2013. If he good enough to make the team and start every game, he gets what he was slated to earn in 2013.

If he's not, we can cut him latter and save on the cap.

The incentive for him to accept the restrucure/salary reduction is the opportunity to earn much of what he slated to earn now.
No team is going to give him a deal that will be anything close to what he going to make with us.

 

[muck4doo]

I'm good with this.

 

[dart]

LOL at all the skulls

http://cowboyszone.com/forums/dallascowboys.php?t=253026

:bang2:

gawd its hard to believe

 

[TellerMorrow34]

This isn't surprising. Ware, Austin, and they'll work to get Romo redone and free up more space.

 

[Venger]

If only they could restructure his hamstrings...

 

[jobberone]

So I guess we pushed that box of Funyuns and Vienna sausages into Cook's final year.

Jerry, I think I saw some sticky nickels in the seat cushions by the receptionist, too.

:laugh2: We need more of that around here.

 

[zack]

If only they could restructure his hamstrings...

He should have taken a pay cut. I wish Dallas would have given him the ultimatium that Connor received.