DENNIS ALLEN…

BakoSaint · 12-24-2023, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by Rugby Saint II

DAand the cap are the problems we have to address this offseason. No more restructures to older players who won't see the end of their contract. If they get to the end of their contract then we're paying over the hill players prime money.

We do not have a choice about restructuring to older players. We are $87-89 million over the projected 2024 salary cap depending on whether you go by Spotrac or Overthecap. We cannot cut players to save on the salary cap, they have already been restructured so many times that their dead cap is higher than their salary and it costs us money for the first year to move on, like the early termination fee of that $100 per line cell phone plan that came with the shiny new iPhone 12. We have to restructure most of our older players to avoid breaking the salary cap and facing unprecedented penalties and loss of draft picks for being the first team in NFL history to fail to get under the salary cap for an entire league year. The only choice we have is whether we only restructure as many players as we have to, in order to allow the cap deficit to get a little less severe the following year and begin a rebuild, or whether we restructure everyone under the premise that if we added Davante Adams or whatever we could win it all with an even older roster. What we need to do is only restructure the 2/3rds of veterans we are forced to, and avoid trading any future draft picks, which could be #1 overall in 2025.

12-24-2023, 01:10 PM	#21
BakoSaint 1000 Posts + Join Date: Dec 2018 Posts: 2,308	Re: DENNIS ALLEN… Originally Posted by Rugby Saint II DAand the cap are the problems we have to address this offseason. No more restructures to older players who won't see the end of their contract. If they get to the end of their contract then we're paying over the hill players prime money. We do not have a choice about restructuring to older players. We are $87-89 million over the projected 2024 salary cap depending on whether you go by Spotrac or Overthecap. We cannot cut players to save on the salary cap, they have already been restructured so many times that their dead cap is higher than their salary and it costs us money for the first year to move on, like the early termination fee of that $100 per line cell phone plan that came with the shiny new iPhone 12. We have to restructure most of our older players to avoid breaking the salary cap and facing unprecedented penalties and loss of draft picks for being the first team in NFL history to fail to get under the salary cap for an entire league year. The only choice we have is whether we only restructure as many players as we have to, in order to allow the cap deficit to get a little less severe the following year and begin a rebuild, or whether we restructure everyone under the premise that if we added Davante Adams or whatever we could win it all with an even older roster. What we need to do is only restructure the 2/3rds of veterans we are forced to, and avoid trading any future draft picks, which could be #1 overall in 2025.
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