The Ticket...and I’m sure many heard this...just had a piece on our salary issues. There was a lot of info so I’ll make it short.
In the NFL there is only 1 team paying their offensive triplets top 10 salaries in the league..Atlanta. New England and many others have zero. As an offense as a whole NE has 1. We have 5 I believe with 3 on the O line. (Driving kids to school so correct me if I git that wrong). If we pay Coop and Dak top cash we will have 7, highest in league.
Basically we are the full damn and need to win now or this things bursts
And if wondering NE has zero on D
That is misleading any many ways.
It does not show the condition of a team's cap situation.
Issue #1: Dead Money
The Cowboys have been "living clean" in recent years by not accumulating large amounts of dead-money.
The comparison of player salaries does not show which teams have avoided accumulating dead-money.
A player with a 2 year, 20M contract has an AAV of 10M (Average Annual Value).
If the team takes a cap hit of 10M in year 1, then the cap hit is 10M in year 2.
If the team only takes a cap hit of 5M in year 1., then the cap hit in year 2 is 15M (10M AAV plus 5M from year 1).
For simplicity, I'm going to refer to that as creating 5M in dead-money during year 1 (it's really prorated money).
dead-money created = AAV - Cap Hit
Examples for 2019:
Cowboys Zack Martin: dead-money created =
Zero (AAV - Cap Hit)
Patriots Stephon Gilmore: dead-money created =
4M (13M - 9M)
Note: The Cowboys could have restructured Martin's contract to reduce his 2019 cap hit by 7M; however, that 7M would be dead-money created.
Issue #2: Lead RB vs RB by committee
Zeke makes significantly more than any 1 Patriots RB; however, the Patriots have a higher total spend on RBs:
2019 RB Total Spend
Cowboys 10.2M (Zeke's portion 7.9M)
Patriots 12.5M
2020 RB Total Spend
Cowboys 11.7M (Zeke's portion 9M)
Patriots 13.8M
Issue #3: 2020 Offensive Spend NOT including the top QB, RB and WR for each team:
Falcons 82M
Eagles 76M
Cowboys 61M
Patriots 45M
The Patriots are low on offensive spend for 2020, but looking at total spend...
Issue #4: Patriots Total Spend NOT including the top QB, RB and WR for each team:
Cowboy 119M
Patriots 132M
Note: The position totals and offensive/'defensive spend per team are from OTC's positional spending data.