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Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19
It seems impossibly low to me too and yet comes from the most legitimate source, one would think.
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Not really.
Derrick has made some pretty shitty miscalculations in the past trying to discuss the cap. He was among the worst offenders in the "We get Frank Clark for Free" debacle when he was just flat-ass misstating how all the numbers would work.
And I get that sometimes the publicly available numbers are iffy. But ultimately the league wouldn't have allowed us to make the Hopkins deal if it put us over the cap. So we know that AT WORST, when the Hopkins deal was completed we were at zero.
And the Taylor restructure came after that. Which would've put us at least as much over as he moved off through base salary. We don't know what that was, but the reports have all been in the $5 million range.
I mean just doing simple dollar in, dollar out, zero-based sort of math here suggests we HAVE to have more than that, no? Unless there's been some other internal cap finagling we don't know about. Or someone is treating NLTBE incentives as LTBE and accruing them on the cap this season.
It just doesn't make any sense to me.