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Itsmytime
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This sucks....
The Seahawks can cut him next year and save 8 million in cap space.The problem is that he is not officially retiring. If he did so then he would forfeit a bunch of money. Instead he will count as big cap hits over the next 2 years unless a more financially amicable settlement can be reached.
Thanks for the big hits Kam!
The Seahawks can cut him next year and save 8 million in cap space.
Looking at overthecap, it appears to me that the only money the Hawks owe him is the guaranteed $6.8M base for 2018. However, for cap purposes the team is on the hook for $14.3M -- the $6.8M that is guaranteed for '18 plus $7.5M of signing bonus proration. That's why they cannot cut him until next year w/o a massive cap penalty, and that's also why Kam isn't going to "retire" because he doesn't want to lose the $6.8M of real money. Now, could he retire and be hired as a coach to still get the $ while not being a cap burden to the team? Not sure, but this seems like something that lawyers have thought of already, and I bet there's some sort of language in the CBA that prevents teams from essentially circumventing the cap.I believe that the seahawks still owe him 11 million combined both this season and next season. I read that the hawks wanted him to retire and put him as a mentor coach and give him his salary that way both this season and next