Dan Duggan
@DDuggan21
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Today is the fifth day of the league year, which is significant for some Giants.
• LT Andrew Thomas: Due a $5M roster bonus today.
• WR Darius Slayton: Due a $2.6M roster bonus today.
• DT Rakeem Nunez-Roche: $2M of $2.865M base salary becomes fully guaranteed today.
• P Jamie Gillan: Due a $250K roster bonus today.
Thomas’ roster bonus is the most meaningful. Here’s why: If the Giants restructure his contract before he earns the roster bonus (4 pm today, I believe), they can gain a maximum of $14.4M in cap space. If they restructure his contract after he earns the bonus, they can gain a maximum of $10.4M in cap space.
The Giants are going to need cap space and Thomas is an obvious restructure candidate since he’s an elite player under contract forever. If they’re going to restructure, it makes sense to do so before the bonus triggers to get the max savings from his contract.
But. Every offseason we have to restructure deals in order to manage the thin cap space.
And every offseason the question about how can the Eagles spend, then people say they will have to pay the piper soon. And it never comes…
I would prefer to go one off-season without restructuring deals. Feel the pain, and start The team hasn’t been good in a decade. Would one painful off-season have made a difference record wise? We thought we had that off-season when we let Bradbury go due to $, yet we are in the same spot once again.
They have not gotten hit but the Hurts contract....rough scope: they added 5 voidable years.....so the 100 million bonus is divided by 10 years(10mil).....vs 5 years(20mil).....creative....but they can not get out of it. If his play drops....ouch!
Jones can be cut next year.
So you want to release a fairly effective player to save what it will cost you, at least, to replace him?
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I like/liked him but a release frees up 6m
So you want to release a fairly effective player to save what it will cost you, at least, to replace him?
I see several FA receivers who would be upgrades and likely wouldn’t break the bank. I think they could upgrade him for the same or slightly higher cost.
No it is not. Maybe he chose to save that $4 mill from having to be paid down the road - pay now, rather than later.
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if your GM knows what the hell he's doing. If he restructures AT down the road, he screwed the pooch in terms of 4+ million dollars. That's mis-management of salary cap. GM's need to be smart about cap usage. This is one of the ways.
No it is not. Maybe he chose to save that $4 mill from having to be paid down the road - pay now, rather than later.
You can always create more space down the road, but right now we still need a lot of players and don’t have a lot of cap space. Get the extra space today. If you do a restructure this season anyway get the $4 mil while you can, it’s gone after today.
Unfortunately, we tend to restructure and then spend it, instead of having a true buffer each year (like the Eagles do).
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In comment 16436141 Dave on the UWS said:
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if your GM knows what the hell he's doing. If he restructures AT down the road, he screwed the pooch in terms of 4+ million dollars. That's mis-management of salary cap. GM's need to be smart about cap usage. This is one of the ways.
No it is not. Maybe he chose to save that $4 mill from having to be paid down the road - pay now, rather than later.
You can always create more space down the road, but right now we still need a lot of players and don’t have a lot of cap space. Get the extra space today. If you do a restructure this season anyway get the $4 mil while you can, it’s gone after today.
Yes, it is available today. Does not mean the Schoen thinks it is necessary to do so. It is probably a good idea, just incase an opportunity arises - in the long run it probably does not matter either way.
But to say not doing it is mismanagement because a BBIer thinks it is, doesn't make it so.
You are joking here, right? If not, do you watch the games? Slayton had a great year despite not having a proven qb for most of the year (Jones and Cutlets). We need him.