03-23-2025, 01:00 PM
(03-23-2025, 12:50 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I guess we'll just disagree on the assertion that dead cap doesn't hurt a team.
Watson "only" costs them $32 Mil this year due to restructure while he rehabs, but in 2026 he'll cost $82 Mil and will cost them $88 Mil over the next 3 years when he's not even on the team.
The amount owed just doesn't disappear. A multi-Billionaire like Haslam can free up a little each year (something a millionaire like Mike Brown cannot do) but the team still owes it and it hurts if the player is not producing
Sure it hurts. They took a swing and it was a massive miss as far as production. It will hinder them in the future but we have yet to see it and if I had to venture a guess it won't be a debilitating impact. For as massive as a contract and as massive as a miss as it was to potentially not have that big of an impact shows that it's not that big a risk to push the chips in. If the Browns take a QB with they're 1st pick and he works out as far as they give him the 2nd contract you probably never really feel the financial impact of the Watson deal.
