....Counting starts AFTER the rookie contract. You have them on the rookie deal, you sign them to the 1st post rookie contract, then let them go in their late 20's on the 2nd, bigger money, contract.
And I guess it's easy to ignore my 2nd statement. Chicago, who knows more about his injury/rehab is willing to let him go.
We also don't know what Chicago thinks. Maybe they were satisfied with what they saw from his replacement next year, or maybe they just plan to spend money elsewhere and fill the DT void in the draft. Or maybe, just maybe, they can't get something worked out.
Yet the fact remains, Chicago is letting him go when they have $9,459,956 in cap space. Why? And why would you want to sign him based on that fact alone PLUS the fact that he is coming off a knee injury?
If he's so good...
If they are so wary of injury, why would they sign "Jeremiah" Ratliff coming off a season long injury then?
$9M isn't a ton of cap space if he wants $6M a year and they have other holes they want to fill.
No it wouldn't. Not in reality anyway. Romo has already cost us the 20 mil. The only difference is that instead of spreading that hit over multiple cap years, it hits on just one cap year. Which just means we have to spread other players money out.
But, that 20 mill in dead money would have to be paid that year. Hence costing us the 20 mill plus his replacement cost. Now, you might be bale to argue that we can finagle other contracts to account for that, but that's not I'm debating. I'm saying that if we cut him we owe him 20 mill in dead money plus his replacement cost, which is true.
If we cut him we don't owe him anything further. The 20 mil was already given to Romo. This concept that cutting Romo costs Dallas additional money isn't true. All it changes is the cap distribution from one year to another. The only new cost to Dallas would be the new QB. In which his contract can be structured accordingly.
We would still owe him money. You think that if we cut him we can walk away without any further obligations to him? We would still have to pay out his guaranteed part of the contract, plus his replacement coast. However that is shaped. I'm not sure of the numbers if we did it next year, but this year it would cost us 20 mill.
That guaranteed part of the contract has already been paid. As far as I know we didn't guarantee payments in the future on his contract. I don't think you understand though. In terms of Jerry's pockets it doesn't cost us 20 mil ro cut him. It doesn't cost us an additional 20 mil against the cap in the long run. That 20 mil is already gone. It is spent. The only thing you should be worried about is money that he hasn't been paid. Money that we will have to pay him if we don't cut him.
Yep. Romo is already factored into the current cap equation.
I thought that was exactly what we did when we restructured him last offseason.
