| DJ's left nut |
03-17-2022 04:13 PM |
I mean we really can broom the damn cap next year. But we'd have 'bout nothing left on this roster.
Cut Clark and Jones - that saves you $40 million or so off the cap. Go ahead and restructure Mahomes AGAIN and it probably turns his cap number from 46 million to...I dunno, it would probably be around $12 from what I can tell but that's without restructuring it again this year. Do that and you're looking at, I dunno - $19 million? So let's just keep the numbers relatively round and say you can save another $25 there.
So we're talking real mony. We've taken $65 million off next year's cap. And at that point of players that actually matter we have:
Mahomes, Thuney, Kelce, Reid, Butker, CEH, Gay, Bolton, Humphrey, Winchester, Niang, Sneed, Danna, Kaindoh, Gray, Smith and this year's draft picks who will probably add about $7 million to the cap in their own right. That's it y'all.
16 players plus realistically 5 more from this year's draft that likely make the team next year. So you're at 21 players and you've used at that point around $105 million in cap space.
And right now we're still about 20 players away from actually fielding an NFL roster. Even if you figure on HALF of those being low cost rookies from our present pool or draft picks, we need to add 10 guys. And those 10 guys are going to have to carry low year 1 numbers so many of them will need dead money loaded into next season or higher base salaries for next season than this year.
So let's say you get 10 cheap fill placeholder style back of the roster guys. And you get 5 more on 1 year deals. That leaves 5 more that you're gonna backload with either higher salaries or dead money.
So let's just say you're looking at 5 guys with $5 million base salaries in year 2 and thus $25 million in salary. Mind you, these guys will SUCK at those figures, but I'm trying to be generous here.
And let's say the cap goes up to $220 million (fair figure). So now you've spent $130 million on 26 players. So you have half a roster at that point. You haven't brought Tyreek Hill or OBJ back either, mind you. Let's again be generous and hope we can get those guys on cap hits of say $18 millione/each next season.
So you've spent $165 million on 28 players. You still need 15 guys and you have about $55 million in cap space to do it with.
Oh, and your team might just suck as constructed there.
And that's WITHOUT pulling pulling any more levers than just restructuring Mahomes.
We've done this too often for too long. Either this year or next we HAVE to tap the brakes. And with the massive upheaval in the conference, let alone the division, I think now's as good a time as any to take a step back and evaluate to see if anything these guys are doing even MATTERS when you have Patrick Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelce and a monster of an OL.
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