Sounds like Steele is on the hot seat

[Sydla]

That isn't a savings -- it is spreading the hit over two years.

But thanks for your effort. It must be hard when you don't really understand the salary cap to comment -- good for you for trying!

The "spread" is about $4MM that would have been moved to next year's cap to just get rid of his bad contract (and his poor play). Frankly, we could have made him a regular cut and while eating over $9MM in dead money this year would have saved just under $9MM on this year's cap. But instead, we decided to lock ourselves in for 2-3 more years with a guy who is so blah right now the coaches are publicly calling him out.

So to reiterate. Option A would have cut him regular and saved $8.75MM this year and eaten $9MM+ in dead money. Or we could have gone with Option B which was June 1 cut him, saved $14MM this year, eaten $5MM in dead money in 2026 and then $4MM in 2027.

We went with option C, which saved us $13MM this year but then locked us in for a minimum of 2 years, when we could save $0 in 2027 if we make him a June 1 cut.

Option A or B were better choices.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Agreed.

Which is why they chose the option of restructuring his deal rather than flat out cut him.

A poor choice IMO. Shotty is basically calling him out, which is clearly not a good sign.

I agree.

But I think Shotty is just trying to motivate him. He did it with Guyton earlier saying it was a competition but I don’t think there ever was.

Now why do you have to motivate a 7 year pro I don’t know….seems nuts.


And in Steeles defense I think at one point there was a decent player until the injury. I wonder at what point so they come to the conclusion this may be him.