they truly aren't thinking straight and I agree, they extend Allen and cut Williams while trying to trade Mack and they could easily restructure the contracts of the players they keep as well.
Right I guess my point is this, likely, means he's your starting LT in 2024. Meaning if he's healthy, and plays all games, he'll earn this $ back, which will be on the '25 cap. You're just deferring cap to next year in that case. Which I agree is a good way to do it, and the best solution, but it might not be $20M in cap savings in '25 anymore. It might be $15M, depending on how much of a cut he took.
Oh yeah agreed. By no means saying he should stay just because he said he had fun. Just your typical case where the words don’t matter if the money doesn’t back it up.
correct, it may only be 15m next year, but you saved 5m this season so it becomes the same savings, but with a higher salary cap as well.
I don't know that we're certain he'll be able to earn every penny back just with playing time incentives.
Maybe. I haven't seen the details. And its not about a market above his dead cap numbers. The dead cap number includes $ paid years ago.
I’d agree his pay cut is likely between 5-8 million. I sincerely doubt it’s 10M. I’d be elated with any number higher than 5M, but that’s still pretty good savings for us and him
Would guess he has to take the minimum and compete in camp at this point. Think there's enough there for someone to take a shot but may not result in anything.
It would be great if we can now move on to signing KVN back. That dude is a seriously good player.