com'on
i see you found the other thread
so i wont bring you into the other thread. But your saying replacing 17 guys is easy, and you can easily replace 31% of your roster, and do it cheaper than before
havent u heard of nate sudfeld, hes not even tendered yet, but watchout
decline... It's desperation
are they waiting to see what happens in the draft..... then not get a Qb say they were always dedicated to this guy?
they no longer have a QB or locker room distraction
Whew good thing they don't have to replace their center.
#18 and and counting. No issue
I don't know the specifics of what Johnson did or the Eagles players in general, but that isn't how it usually works exactly. Usually when teams have a cap problem like the Eagles do now and they restructure players they convert salary to bonus. So the player gets the money up front, nit in future years and the team spreads his bonus out for cap purposes (not cash purposes) over up to 5 years or whatever is left on the contract. It is 100% kicking the can down the road and hurting future cap year to help the current year. It is part of dealing with the cap in the NFL and not an issue if you do it wisely: only on a couple of players and only on players that likely will see the end of or at least most of their contracts so you aren't stuck with a lot of "dead money" on a player you can't afford to cut or players whose cap hits exceed their production.
I think you need to educate yourself. You won a SB and made the playoffs the next year because of Foles who is gone because of your cap problem. You let Jernigan go because of your cap problem. You traded Bennett because of your cap problem. You won't likely have all 3 of jeffery, Agholar and Tate because of your cap problem. You are kicking the can down the road and hurting future years caps because of your cap problem. No one ever said you won't get under the cap. We told you what you were going to have to do to get there and that is exactly what is happening. Your team is already much worse than last year because of your cap problem. You better hope you draft well or you will have a huge problem. The money you used last year on guys like Bennett and Ngata and the such could have rolled into this year to keep your team together. Now you are looking to fill holes and resign who you can and your draft picks with that money you freed up and this will come back to bite you in future years.
Educate yourselves before opening your yappers to avoid threads like these.
Eagles, Lane Johnson reportedly agree to restructured contract
Exhibit 279.f.1 on managing the cap.
Good luck to you all.
Here is where you cherry pick your memories. The cap is Math. Any moron with a calculator can get any team under the cap by restructuring and not resigning key players and not adding players they may otherwise want to via FA. But that isn't helping your team. That works in the short run to get under the cap, but causes you to not be able to keep your own contributing players in the future. Restructuring is a problem if you do it with too many guys. You need to look down the road a couple of years to see it's impact.
