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Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Houston has been desperate for a RB, or was under the previous regime. McCaffrey's contract would be offset by Watson's when they both take jumps and with a franchise QB you are going to have to find a way to offset the cost somehow.

Have you been day drinking on a Tuesday?

Remember when you said "Have an understanding of a rule?" Seems like you didn't understand it as well as you thought that you did.

Found a write up detailing the $40M distributed per team. Looks like all of it was destined for retirements, tuition assistance, and the other benefit programs. Some sites have included that chunk with the overall cap which has been stupid confusing, but apparently those were strictly for benefits and not for roster building. I'm willing to bet that your right on that being where the opt out payments came from though. I wonder if it was treated like when a team doesn't spend the minimum and any unspent went strictly to the benefits packages for the team should they not have many opt outs.

Since you seem to believe that you understand everything, why don't you put together the contract numbers together that would have worked? Considering that you weren't aware that there was a minimum floor for the salary cap, I'm ready for a good laugh. PROTIP: You'd have freed up just $80M over the 4yr period (3yrs is for 2021 - 2023 seasons) if spending the minimum... so... good luck on finding that other $20M

You also wouldn't happen to be aware of how the $40M in player benefits per team from 2020 was handled, would you? Did that count as cash (that could be rolled over)?

Oooh, surprising. Makes Paradis a prime post-6/1 candidate. I wonder if they're going to try and use the other one on Teddy.

Oh, you mean the money that Hurney spent trying to keep his job? We still would have had to spend most of that per the CBA agreement referenced above. I know folks here like to think we can start scrubs all year and roll over $150M to go crazy with free agents, but that's not realistic.

How does this work with the salary cap floor that the NFL has instituted (89% of the salary cap per the last CBA agreement)? The team still would have had to spend at least $173M.

Uh... considering the last time the team was 2-14 was in 2010 before going 6-10 in 2011, Marty Hurney since he was GM then? Not really sure what point you're trying to make there.

Much easier to absorb that dead cap hit next season when the cap isn't being reduced due to the COVID pandemic and dips in revenue. I would argue that this season we would want to reduce the dead cap as much as possible since next season only has just under $90M committed to 2022 (with about $170M out of $185M committed to 2021).

Considering that all of the teams are now in a cap crunch due to the COVID-influenced reduction, I don't think we can put a whole lot of blame on the front office this season for being over the cap and having to make moves that literally every team is having to do as well.

Big difference between having an extra $5M come available on 6/2 compared to nothing at all.

Any word if he is being designated a post-6/1 cut?

Jaylon Smith is a crazy interesting name that I never considered, but it is a possibility based on his contract's structure. I don't see the Cowboys cutting him this season though as they stand to gain a lot more money if they just wait another year to see if he ascends. Crowder, Ertz, and Graham I am super straight on tho. Would rather look for rising stars than fading lights.

Leads me to believe that he was there on business but suddenly stopped checking in.

https://www.panthers.com/news/snap-counts-carolina-at-washington-x1360 Marquis Haynes and Efe Obada were the DE starters. The team did exactly what folks are suggesting outside of being as obvious as the Eagles were with their attempts to tank. Funny enough, folks are saying they should have started PJ over Teddy like PJ hadn't beaten the Lions and they hadn't been saying Teddy was the reason for the losses

In all fairness, you started with the "what if" over a game from almost two months ago when there were plenty of other Ws that could've been Ls

Joe Person's latest Athletic article, Can Panthers find treasures among other teams’ salary cap-casualty trash?, touches on a few of the situations that some of us Huddlers have been looking at. Some of the specific targets Person has listed: TE: Zach Ertz, Cameron Brate, David Njoku, Jimmy Graham WR: Jamison Crowder OL: Charles Leno Jr, Kevin Zeitler, James Carpenter DT: Jarran Reed, Akiem Hicks, Quinton Jefferson CB: Malcolm Butler LB: Jaylon Smith, Bendardrick McKinney A few of us have buzzed about Njoku. He's a great athlete. Not from Person's article, but a few other possible cap casualties: OL: Andrew Norwell, Brandon Linder, Anthony Castonzo, Kevin Zeitler, Trai Turner, George Fant, Terron Armstead TE: Evan Engram, Kyle Rudolph, Eric Ebron, Jesse James, CJ Uzomoah, Tyler Eifert, OJ Howard LB: Dont'a Hightower, Jordan Hicks CB: Kyle Fuller, Janoris Jenkins, Steven Nelson, Xavien Howard, Desmond Trufant, Justin Coleman, Bradley Roby, Robert Alford, Jonathan Jones, Buster Skrine

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Sam Ehlinger looked atrocious at the Senior Bowl As in couldn't even back-up in the CFL bad.

You keep saying that folks don't understand the concept, but in actuality that's you bby. Everyone understands that draft selections are assigned values and that the higher picks have greater value because in theory, you'll be selecting the best player available for your team. Nobody has debated this, yet you keep going back to it as if it's the final answer when it isn't. What exactly makes those draft picks valuable? Aside from getting in new talent, there's the salary cap implications as well as an attempt at competitive balance. What makes a draft pick a bust? If they do not pan out. Therefore, each of those selections is essentially a spot in line to gamble. This is why the attempt at quantification falls flat, because you have no idea what the final value is going to be in the player that you exchanged that draft pick for. By it's very nature, the draft is not a surefire thing. Therefore, the idea that the team should purposefully lose a game for selections that all 32 teams value differently is illogical and if acted upon harmful. You can keep repeating your point without ever considering another, but that's doesn't make it logical.

The draft in retrospect is consistently a walk of could'ves, would'ves, and should'ves. If Brown wasn't one of "the guys," the team would have moved up to take somebody else. If Herbert was that player, they'd have moved up for him. The fact that they stayed put showed that they were comfortable with how the board ended up. We know this to be the case because this was exactly what was done with Greg Little. The top 4 QBs in the draft prior to last were Kyler Murray, Daniel Jones, Dwayne Haskins, and Drew Lock. Just because the player plays at a position that the team could use an upgrade it does not mean that player is worth a top 5 pick. We have re-drafts all of the time showing this. Again, the idea that a team should have lost the Washington game last season to make sure they got the #3 pick is stupid considering the true cost that would require and the fact that any of the other W's could have been L's. There isn't any amount of spreadsheet adjusting that can be done to change that.

That sounds a lot like saying because you get to pick the first lottery ticket at the gas station that you've got a better chance of hitting the jackpot. Unless you're somehow aware of how the player's career will end up?