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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Or they just don't intend to take on any dead money.

I mean technically Kendall Blanton has a $1 million cap hit but it's not guaranteed and he has no signing bonus. So there's a million bucks cleared without dead money.

Deon Bush could get you another million. Blake Bell, Matt Dickerson, Austin Reiter; that's $3.3 million or so. Now I believe those guys have VSB so they make about a million but they have cap hits in the $900K range. But they could be backfilled by guys like Bushman, Hailassie, Truman Jones and Mike Caliendo and you'd gain about $200K per guy once the top 51 settles out. Blanton and Bush don't have VSBs so you're talking about 300K per cut there.

So with some of these moves that could be made, we could sneak out another $1 million or so and find a little more breathing room.

It's just such a lean cap. I don't know that folks understand how well constructed our cap sheet is at the moment. The problem is that we have a $28 million hit throwing a ****ing temper tantrum at the moment.

But yeah, that's not a problem really. It's not like Jones is accounting for more than Kelce, Omenihu and both of our starting offensive tackles COMBINED or anything....

Just really a big fan of Chris Jones and his pride at the moment...

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Oh yeah, and remember when we signed Frank Clark "for the same as it would cost to cut him!!"

Yeah, we have $7.8 million in dead cap right now and $7.6 million of that is Clark's. But we "Essentially got him for free" - remember? I know that's the case because Matt Derrick said so and if someone has a Twitter account, they must be right.

Yeah, but they're gonna want 5-6 for the year right? I dunno.......it's just ****ed that we're in this position.