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[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by O.city

They haven't done anything to get any capspace, so either a move is coming or they are still optimistic on Jones.

Those are the only options right?

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...

[JPH83]

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...

Maybe it's cap space and roster construction where Jones and his team think they have leverage? I mean, stupid, but who knows?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by JPH83

Maybe it's cap space and roster construction where Jones and his team think they have leverage? I mean, stupid, but who knows?

Of course that's part of it.

Which is also part of my "But really now...I think maybe Chris Jones can go fist a collie" reaction to it.

"My team desperately needs what I can provide so I can either take my $20 million base salary - the 2nd highest among defensive players in football this year - and step it up to help out. OR I can leverage the situation and troll people on social media...."

Yeah - Chris Jones can go fist a collie. This is an absolute bullshit reaction from a supposed 'team leader'.

[Bl00dyBizkitz]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Of course that's part of it.

Which is also part of my "But really now...I think maybe Chris Jones can go fist a collie" reaction to it.

"My team desperately needs what I can provide so I can either take my $20 million base salary - the 2nd highest among defensive players in football this year - and step it up to help out. OR I can leverage the situation and troll people on social media...."

Yeah - Chris Jones can go fist a collie. This is an absolute bullshit reaction from a supposed 'team leader'.

Yeah, shit hurts.

I still feel in my heart of hearts he is a team leader. And he has plenty of money to last him and his family a lifetime. It has to be about respect at this point. Sucks...