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Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19
I'm not sure exactly how it would work, but when I went on OTC Friday night, cutting Maclin now and cutting him in 2018 resulted in the same cap space for 2018. Maybe they can get more this way, but if so that is quite the loophole in the salary cap.
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They don't factor in rollovers on stuff like that and Spotrac because it isn't official yet.
Their 'committed cap' for '18 wouldn't change any, but the amount of spending cap they have available to them goes up by any amount unspent in '17.
And yeah, it changes cap calculations quite a bit and makes backloaded contracts completely painless because money saved up front can 'pay forward' on itself in later years.
That's why the extension that Smith signed in '14 was often unfairly criticized. Smith was due to get $8 million in '14 but by extending and restructuring the first year, he lopped that year 1 figure down to $4.6 million and effectively created a $3.5 million 'surplus' that forward paid on his '15 number. So while his '15 cap figure was $15.6 million, the extension created an additional $3.5 million in carryover that effectively reduced that second year to just a tick over $12 million.
Cap rollover has changed the way you have to look at cap situations and cap casualties a great deal. That's why I've been calling for Colquitt's scalp for 2 years now. You have to always be looking 2-3 years down the road because it all continues to accumulate.