03-07-2022, 11:13 PM
(03-07-2022, 11:10 PM)bfine32 Wrote: It can help to sign another player long term. JB is not counting against our cap beyond this season.
It does limit our ability to sign players to 1-year contracts, but it does make it easier to sign FAs to long term deals.
Kind of, the tag counts for all $12.9 this year. In a lot of extensions, because of the signing bonus they actually tend to be pretty shallow the first year in base salary and then cap hit then get heavier across the remaining years and the bonus is always prorated across the life. For example, Justin Simmons contract only had a $6 Million or so dollar hit year 1 but then jumped to 18.5 across the back 3 so while it averaged 15.25 per year that first year was actually far below that specifically because the Broncos needed the money year 1 for some flexibility.
So in reality a long term deal probably could open up significant money this year, but that isn't the path we are heading at this point.
