03-17-2021, 03:52 PM
(03-17-2021, 03:32 PM)ochocincos Wrote: The $2.6 mill isn't going to make a difference at this point.
The expensive FAs are off the board and they still have $20 mill in cap before cuts.
Cutting Atkins will get them close to $30 mill even if they don't do Post-June 1 designation.
They should have plenty of cap to fill the rest of their gaps and sign draft picks without that $2.6 mill making a difference.
I totally agree. The 2.6 mil is meaningless. Especially because I guarantee you we roll over more than that, so the cap space available for either year is essentially one and the same.
All I'm pointing out is that for those that are that concerned about eating 5.2 mil this year, vs. 2.6 + 2.6 this year and next, those numbers can be easily offset by how they spread about other people's signing bonuses.
All they would have to do to make Geno's 5.2 mil in 2021 and 0 in 2022 completely equal to 2.6 mil in 2021 and 2.6 mil in 2022 is take 2.6 mil off of other players signing bonus hits this year, and move that same 2.6 mil to next year. (All of these bonuses are paid regardless, it's just simple cap management)
Anyways, I have no clue if any of this makes sense to anyone else. And frankly, I really don't know why we (I) waste out time on stuff like this. Geno is an obvious cap casualty.
He would have been gone from 90% of teams in our situation at the trade deadline in 2019. He would have been gone from 95% of the teams in the 2020 offseason. Now it's just getting to the point where it's comical. The man saves us almost 10 million dollars this year and he's not worth anywhere near that amount. It's really as simple as that.
They need to get that money off the books ASAP and start investing in players that will help this team in the future.
