The cap challenge

[CowboysFaninHouston]

just thinking out loud, with all the stars on the team and trying to keep them, the cap is a big challenge....I can understand the reluctance to hand big contracts to the big 3 now....zeke has to play out his current contract before his new one kicks in and so perhaps an extension to the current contract, but not changing his current contract value...

if we pay average salary (I know cap numbers are different, but at some point you pay in the form of dead money and you are screwed for a few years)

Dak $33-34
Zeke $15-16
Cooper $18-19

then we have to resign Smith
Smith 18-20 (I am probably low on this)

then we already have on the books
Lawrence $20 (taking the first 4 years into account)
T. Smith $14 (average over next few years)
Martin $15
Fredrick $11

these are just the big names.....elite stars on the team

that would be $144 Mill on the cap for 8 players.... that's nasty....for 2019, the cap is 188, probably around 200 for 2020 and then the difficulty of labor renegotiation

now, again, I know the cap hit each year will vary, but you can manipulate so much....but still it doesn't leave you a lot of money to sign other players... but if the above is averages for 2020...that leave 56M to sign 45 players....that's tough to fill in a team with good enough players to compete......even if the bottom 15 made league minimum of lets say 600K...that is 9 Mill, and leaves 47 mill to sign 30 players that are not bottom scrappers of the team...

so a player like Quinn as a 8 mill cap hit this year....Crawford has a 9 mill cap hit in 2020.

we might have to hand out a bunch of large contracts, have 3 or 4 years to make a run and then just suck for a few years until we get out of cap hell....that's why winning on rookie deals is so important. or a Brady like team friendly deal....

we probably will let Byron Jones walk. Wouldn't surprise me to let Zeke walk (maybe). I think we might just wait on Dak and franchise him. 2019 numbers are 24 Mill, so lets say next year its about 26-27...….again, playing average, that's better than 33-34 Dak wants...plus one more year of really evaluating him before going into cap hell

 

[jazzcat22]

It always works it self out. I don't concern myself over it. As long as jerry is not, which he has not, been handing out huge Roy Williams type trades and contracts. It will be fine.

Sign Dak, Cooper, Zeke, Jaylon, then LVE next when he come due.
I am ok with them letting Byron walk. I think as long as Richard is here to develop DB's, he will not be a huge loss. But if the can find a way to sign him too, I prefer them to keep him. But I want to see his progress this season though too.

 

[CouchCoach]

It always works it self out. I don't concern myself over it. As long as jerry is not, which he has not, been handing out huge Roy Williams type trades and contracts. It will be fine.

Sign Dak, Cooper, Zeke, Jaylon, then LVE next when he come due.
I am ok with them letting Byron walk. I think as long as Richard is here to develop DB's, he will not be a huge loss. But if the can find a way to sign him too, I prefer them to keep him. But I want to see his progress this season though too.

Bold - really? Murray and Ware might disagree with that.

And put me in the not OK to let a top 10 CB walk and the last time I looked, Richard didn't play a down and he wasn't the developer of DB's or the one that picked them. Why do you think they let him walk when rebuilding that D and secondary?

 

[jazzcat22]

Bold - really? Murray and Ware might disagree with that.

And put me in the not OK to let a top 10 CB walk and the last time I looked, Richard didn't play a down and he wasn't the developer of DB's or the one that picked them. Why do you think they let him walk when rebuilding that D and secondary?

Murray wanted more money than he was worth. And Ware was often injured at the time and his production was down.
Neither was worth the money at the time.

Crap happens, players and coaches are allowed to walk. All I seen was the secondary improved once Richard got here.
I I did not say I wanted Jones to walk, but was ok with it in lieu of them signing all those other players. And I said I prefer they keep him.

 

[TwoDeep3]

just thinking out loud, with all the stars on the team and trying to keep them, the cap is a big challenge....I can understand the reluctance to hand big contracts to the big 3 now....zeke has to play out his current contract before his new one kicks in and so perhaps an extension to the current contract, but not changing his current contract value...

if we pay average salary (I know cap numbers are different, but at some point you pay in the form of dead money and you are screwed for a few years)

Dak $33-34
Zeke $15-16
Cooper $18-19

then we have to resign Smith
Smith 18-20 (I am probably low on this)

then we already have on the books
Lawrence $20 (taking the first 4 years into account)
T. Smith $14 (average over next few years)
Martin $15
Fredrick $11

these are just the big names.....elite stars on the team

that would be $144 Mill on the cap for 8 players.... that's nasty....for 2019, the cap is 188, probably around 200 for 2020 and then the difficulty of labor renegotiation

now, again, I know the cap hit each year will vary, but you can manipulate so much....but still it doesn't leave you a lot of money to sign other players... but if the above is averages for 2020...that leave 56M to sign 45 players....that's tough to fill in a team with good enough players to compete......even if the bottom 15 made league minimum of lets say 600K...that is 9 Mill, and leaves 47 mill to sign 30 players that are not bottom scrappers of the team...

so a player like Quinn as a 8 mill cap hit this year....Crawford has a 9 mill cap hit in 2020.

we might have to hand out a bunch of large contracts, have 3 or 4 years to make a run and then just suck for a few years until we get out of cap hell....that's why winning on rookie deals is so important. or a Brady like team friendly deal....

we probably will let Byron Jones walk. Wouldn't surprise me to let Zeke walk (maybe). I think we might just wait on Dak and franchise him. 2019 numbers are 24 Mill, so lets say next year its about 26-27...….again, playing average, that's better than 33-34 Dak wants...plus one more year of really evaluating him before going into cap hell

Texas Hold 'Em has a moment when you see that you can win it all if you push all of your chips into the middle.

This may very well be that moment. He has youth in key places. He has play makers in the same places.

This could be Jerry going for the gold.

And if so, and he fails, what is the difference between this and the last twenty three years? At least he has the gonads to make this play. Instead of trotting out the same team, with different faces and be in a perpetual rebuild.

Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead.