All money the retiring player had previously been paid and is guaranteed in the future would accelerate into the current cap counting period. Spotrac has this figure at $44.9M. (Looking at the breakdown shouldn't it be $2M higher?). This includes the current salary which was $17M before the April 1st 2015 restructure. Salaries are not due if players suffer non-footballing injuries so if he had retired for non-footballing reasons in the current cap period the $17M for 2015 wouldn't have been due. Later edit: the salary wouldn't be due - period. That would have reduced the $44M to $27M, which is what Romo was due to count against the cap anyway. If Romo were to retire in the next accounting period, after May12th, his current cap would stay as it is for 2015, (now $14.973M?), and the remaining $30M would count in 2016.
The Cowboys could have made a small cap move just to cover McClain and another cap move for the rookies later on. It doesn't hurt the Cowboys to add a lot of cap space in 1 hit and use whatever isn't needed on Hardy's 2016 cap hit at the end of the year, (since he's likely to earn way more than his 2015 cap hit in bonuses). 1 move keeps things easier to understand.
They could take AP on his current deal and convert some of his 2015 salary into a bonus. It would pay AP the same amount but delay part of the cap hit. Most people on this board think it would be a bad move.
not so much a bad move....just not the move I expect Dallas to make
He is/was a great player but his current deal is for $13M this year and $15M next year. I wouldn't want that contract. Supposedly AP is resisting a pay cut to move.
I think the bigger problem is AP thinks himself as the victim. That turns off a lot of people
