Quote (Terps @ Sep 3 2019 11:14pm)
New contracts have a low cap hit up-front and a big cap hit near the end. So Dallas' window is this year and for the next few years, at which time they'll either have to extend, restructure, or cut some players. It'll also be incumbent upon the FO to draft really well, since you need cheap talent (rookie contracts) to fill out the roster while the highly-paid vets take up 50-60% of the cap
Just read up a bit, nfl contracts are nuts.
I thought teams had to prorate a bonus over the entire contract tho. Apparently not, they can prorate a bonus' cap hit over 5 years. So any player really doesn't have any leverage after 5 years.
Teams can just cut these players in year 5-7 with no cap hit or dead money, regardless of how much money is guaranteed.
So 90 mill in 6 years for zeke isnt that crazy because they will just cut him after 5 years anyways even tho hes signed for like 8year when his cap hit is 20mil and they wont even have any dead money.
Looks like they are making a push for the bowl, and saying were cutting all these fuckers in 4-6 years.
This post was edited by LAP4JSP on Sep 3 2019 10:58pm