According to Spotrac (minus the disclaimer of course), his 2023 cap hit went from $26.5M to $13.7M but his 2023 dead money went from $6.5M to $9M.

He save us $12.8M this year but will cost $2.5M MORE to cut next year.

Should have just ****ing cut him now.

It's not Mahomes....it's everyone else.

Hill has a large cap number and needs a new deal.
Clark had a large cap number and they had to figure out what to do with him.
Jones still has a large cap number.
Thuney is at $18 million.
OBJ needs a new contract and we're carrying $16 million for him.

Add in the fact that we're losing a lot of the roster because we had a ton of 1 year deals the last couple of seasons....and this was bound to happen eventually.

Me too, but then again we were told that when he signed the deal.

They can't do anything with Mahomes until today. That's the issue.

Should have but then we would be sitting here with Danna and Kaindoh. Even if the dude only gets 4-5 sacks....they valued that and a body more than they did the $2.5 million it would cost off of next year's cap.

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That's not true. You can re-structure contracts any time. Today is just the deadline because a bonus is due IIRC.

No way.

There are many guys still available before going that route. Sammy's just not dependable.

Bring in, for example, Auden Tate, James Washington, LaQuan Treadwell, not as #2 but to compete for roster spots. I also like the idea of signing Brandon Powell to be a 5th/6th WR and return punts/kicks.

I'm starting to lean towards riding out the storm. We can still push for the division but it's not the time to push the chips all in. Let these other team's young qb contracts run out and that will limit their super team building abilities. We can get a head start by drafting well the next few years.

Which may mean that they don't plan on restructuring his deal this year. It can't just be a given every year because there will be a year where we get ****ed by it.

They honestly could just be looking at getting Hill a new deal and lowering his cap hit this year. Getting OBJ a new deal and having a decently low cap hit this year. And then possibly restructuring Thuney.

They need $9 million to sign their draft picks and then the rest will be filled with low number deals.

Next year, you can cut Clark, trade Jones and restructure Mahomes' deal....and gain $70 million in cap space.

I hope not, bridges have been burned and he is not good anymore

Yeah, but like I said, when you click on the link thing, it says the 6.8 or whatever. His signing bonus was pro-rated at $5.2 for instance, now it's at 7.475. So that's essentially adding 4.55 million in signing bonus to a base salary of 3.75 which would mean guarantees this year of roughly $8.3 million. Well that's not what's been reported anywhere.

That said, it IS about where I started with this whole thing when I said I figured we'd see about $8 million paid to him this year. Whether they plow it all into this year w/ base or do SOME base and SOME bonus is largely immaterial because again, rollover provisions mean that saving money this year just creates cap credits towards next seasons adjusted cap.

All that matters is the total amount of new money we're giving him. So it would seem like it MIGHT be $8.3 million in 'new' money.

There are just a lot of inconsistencies on Spotrac's own page. It's hard to know for sure.

But I'm gonna laugh if it's $8.3 million after I took an evening of cap-lectures from idiots when I got it pretty much exactly right doing nothing more than looking at his previous structure.

F-Off, Twitter jackholes.

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What bridges were ever burned?

I don't think there's any ill-will between the organization and Sammy. By all accounts he was extremely well thought of.

He wanted more money and opportunity than we would provide. It didn't work out.

A reunion would actually make a ton of sense for both sides.