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Originally Posted by Direckshun
Pretty simple.
The Chiefs really want Desean Jackson, but they don't have a lot of cap space in 2014.
Desean Jackson really wants to play for the Chiefs, namely their coach, but he wants his payday.
How do you make these two pieces fit?
In negotiation theory, a compromise is when both sides of a dispute both sacrifice a little in order to achieve something.
However, a collaboration is when both sides get what they want from the dispute, and nobody has to sacrifice much of anything.
The solution, my friends, is in four words: the Eagles dead money.
Desean Jackson gets $10m in dead money from Philly over the next three years.
$6m in 2014
$2m in 2015
$2m in 2016
Since I'm not concerned about our cap number in 2015 (regardless of the recent thread decrying our lack of cap space, we're going to make strategic cuts that will give us around $40m pre-Houston-extension) or 2016, we obviously need to make 2014 work.
Well, the Eagles pretty much did that for us. Jackson's guaranteed $6m from them. All we need to do is pony up something like $6m, and boom, we get Jackson for a deal, and he gets paid like a mother****er.
We can pay him comfortably in 2015 and 2016, even load some guaranteed money in there. In 2017, we can have something set up to give us flexibility to cut him if we need to.
Both sides get exactly what they want without having to sacrifice anything.
The Chiefs can, and should, land Desean Jackson.
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I'm not sure what you mean when you say dead money.
Normally dead money means that a team is counting money against the cap that has already been paid to player that has since left the team. Which means that Jackson already has that money and won't be getting paid more from Philly.
Unless you mean something else by 'dead money', you're mistaken.