Having an anchor contract like this on your team interests me, so I went to the Bronco board to learn about it. This is what I found:
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With the benching of Russ will come a lot of salary dumps. Bolles, Patrick, Jeudy, Jewell, Singleton, K'Wuan Willams and Simmons are guys that will get cut or traded I guarantee it. Look for some big swinging moves during or just before the draft.
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Cut/trade:
Bolles saves 16m in cap (age 32)
Patrick 10M (age 31)
Sutton 10M (age 29)
Simmons 14M (age 31)
Jones 10M (age 29)
Singleton 4.5M (age 31)
64M in cap room.
If this is the plan, then may as well trade Surtain to start the rebuild. Some of the guys above may fetch a 3rd or more, but only Surtain would return enough to accelerate a rebuild. If, and it is a huge if, we can get a couple 1st round picks (think Ramsey trade), then we could be competitive again in 2025 or 2026.
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How I understand the post june 1 designation per the OTC article explaining it is we will have to deal with 100% of Wilson's dead cap in March. We then get cap relief in June. So we can avoid the March trigger of another 37 mil guarantee but we can not avoid the 85 mil cap hit. I think in terms of Wilson the cap will be even in 2025 assuming we roll over what is gained in June to 2025. We may end up with dead money elsewhere for 2025 in all the other moves we do though.
I assume we keeping Stidham in this move and he is not on the table for cutting.
With that said we can keep 1 of the following players - Sutton, Simmons, Bolles, DJ Jones and Patrick. We can keep two but we would have to essentially have to cut 4-6 other players in a list of about 8-9.
We probably would need to release more after that in order to meet our rookie salaries and get enough cap in order to replace the players we just cut.
This is not even counting that we are currently 18 mil over the cap already in 2024 and what the salary cap goes to.
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Wow collateral damage from 1 bad signing
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Hopefully someone besides Paton making these calls...
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These guys know their team better than we do. Looks ugly.