03-04-2016, 06:37 PM
(03-04-2016, 05:22 PM)fredtoast Wrote: So the Ravens got s player to replace Ngata who played for free?
if you cut a player that creates dead money you still have to pay another player to replace him.
Fred, the dead money was created when he signed the contract, not when they cut him. There was going to be $7.5M of dead money if he was on their roster or not. On the roster he had a cap hit of $16M. Off the roster, a cap hit of $7.5M. By trading him they saved $8.5M to use on other players and got a couple of draft picks for a player they were going to lose. Sometimes you have to pick the least shitty of two shitty choices. Faced with the same decision, which would you have chosen? I know they didn't replace him with someone who played for free.
