2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

Animosity said:

DK and Lockett to the Raiders confirmed.

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Would be pretty funny if they get to the playoffs before the Seachickens

Merrith said:

Bears not fucking around. Trading for Jackson and Thuney

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Thuney is a good move. Jackson is TBD - he has a pretty big contract and was largely a disappointment in LA, but he did get hurt early on and then bounced around the interior when he came back. I think his Pro Bowl season with the Lions was very much a product of the supporting cast - he was bracketed by two pro bowlers in Ragnow and Sewell. That said, Johnson knows him, so, probably he'll bounce back. I don't like seeing the Bears get better.

Wombat said:

No, his salary (like most) was always structured for most of the hit to land in later years, when new media contracts raise the cap making the amount easier to absorb.

So yes, while the $73 Million cap hits this year and next seem astronomical, it's only 26% of the cap for this year - Dak, for instance, has a hit of $90M, almost a third of the Cowboys' cap.

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Speaking of Deshaun and Dak, both had their contracts redone.

thus turning current salaries into signing bonuses - the players get the money immediately, and the current year cap hit gets spread out over 5(?) years, giving those teams more money to work with this season. Which normally is fine, as salary caps continue to rise, until you've pushed off so much into the future that you can't afford a team and have to drop/trade virtually everyone and just field rookies / cuts from other teams, like the Raiders did not too long ago.

Reminder for everyone: Teams have to be compliant to the salary cap every individual day by 5PM Eastern ( I believe).

So if you're the Saints, New Orleans Saints 2025 Financial Summary, you have to lose $47,503,271 in salaries before March 12th at 5PM. (Remember that cutting players on multi year deals that still have singing bonus on the books for future years moves that money up to this year, though flagging people as June 1st cuts complicates things.) Then by the draft, they have to shave more money to pay for the undrafted free agents, then shortly after more for the drafted players. Then they need to cut even more as various players still signed with the team have workout bonuses kick in, then shave even more later as 'Reach X yards in a season' bonuses kick in, then even more even later as 'Named to pro-bowl' bonuses kick in, etc. etc. etc.

He has a less than $3M dead cap hit if he gets traded and Cincinnati probably doesn't have the money to give him a big extension with already negotiating with Tee Higgins and Ja'marr Chase waiting in the wings.

Mercenary but well timed on his part. ESPN already says the Bengals have agreed to let him seek offers - Bengals letting star DE Hendrickson seek trade - I can't see them matching whatever offer he gets.

Well, their defense was already so strong so I can understand why they'd let him go.

jooka said:

Browns seem pretty dug in so not sure you see Myles actually going anywhere, time will tell tho

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Even with the Deshaun Watson restructure, the Browns only have $12.8M in cap space, $52M already in dead money, and (again, even with the restructure) $37M in cap money going to Deshaun that for this season may as well be dead money.

It's not just that the Browns won't want to lose one of their best players, they might not literally be able to afford to (in terms of Garrett's option bonus immediately applying to the Browns' cap number for this year.

Ameraves said:

Seahawks in full rebuild mode? Assume DK is next

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I guess so? Given last season I would have thought differently but /shrug