I’m a little surprised more hasn’t been made of this. In the other thread we talked about Brees costing us $21.3 mil in dead cap next season regardless of whether he’s re-signed or not. If we sign him to another two year deal as we’ve been doing he’ll be costing us close to $50 mil in cap space.

Teddy Bridgewater will account for $4 mil in dead cap.

We can cut Janoris Jenkins and save $11.25 mil with no dead money. Or, we can extend him and knock down that $11.25 mil cap hit by quite a bit. Problem is, he turns 32 next season. How much do you want to invest in a 32 year old CB?

Same issue with Larry Warford. He has a $12.875 cap hit next season (last year of his deal.) Do we extend him at 29 years old? Cutting him frees up $8.5 mil but then we’re left having to replace both our LG and RG.