Knowledgeable enough to comment that we can't include La'el money until June and so we had to balance the CAP on about the 16th March. The discussion we were having is that in reality when Coop was traded we had no indication that DLaw was going to accept the new contract and we were expecting to sign Gregory.....AT THE TIME, not now.
If we'd signed Coop and Gregory to the contracts they eventually signed. then in 2023 we'd owe them a best case scenario of $24m (and that's if we cut Coop.
That's a deficit of $25m.
That's a lot of "ifs." We could've also restructured Coop and saved 15 million towards 2022. We are I believe 11 million under cap currently for 2023. That is without any restructures or cuts. 2024 we are ridiculously under the cap, however that statement alone lacks context because you have to know who is due a contract and who we will want to part ways with.
My point is if you're going to parrot the hard up against the cap narrative, you have to do a lot of homework.
There was only one guy on this board who could undoubtedly be trusted with his knowledge of the cap, AdamJT. Rumor had it he had a league job, sounds far fetched, but he was money with the cap.
So again, I'll argue if we wanted to keep Coop we could have. I'm not against releasing him because he wasn't of value based on his pay, but again, we are lacking context. It's hard to perform to your salary as a WR when you are 32nd in the league in targets.
Two things bothered me about losing Coop. First, we telegraphed his release, and our compensation was terrible. I can't believe most GMs wouldn't want Coop over Hollywood Brown, for example.
Secondly, I don't see the plan moving forward. I initially thought it signified a return to pounding the ball. Then, we re-signed a no blocking TE and appeared content at RB.