01-03-2017, 10:31 AM
(01-03-2017, 10:13 AM)kevin Wrote: The fact remains that Pacman is signed many years as our highest paid CB and Hall was let go and Kirkpatrick is unsigned going into free agency. Plus they drafted Dennard and Jackson First Round.......Now neither you or I know the details of the Pacman contract. To say we can cut him and free up money is pure speculation without knowing all the legal ins and outs of this long expensive contract. We can hope he is innocent.....or we can hope the contact gives Bengals an option here to get out of it.....but we can not just say LET HIM WALK, GET RID OF HIM, SHOW HIM THE DOOR, because we DO NOT know the legal ins and outs of his contract. We just don't. A team of lawyers will have a hard time arguing over what the contract options are...............Be it Mike or his daughter Pumpkin, there is a good chance they painted us into a corner where we lose Kirkpatrick and have Pacman who can't play due to suspensions. That would indeed be Bengals front office again of questionable moves and no play-off wins since Paul Brown died.........Hey, I would love to dump Pacman right now and keep Kirkpatrick, if we can get out of this long expensive Pacman contract. ...None of us really know the ins and outs of this very legal and binding Pacman contract. We can pretend we do, but we don't.......IF we dump him, is he still a salary cap hit for years to come ?.....This is where NFL lawyers will earn their pay.
Okay, so it is apparent you don't understand how the NFL salary cap works. I do know the details of Pacman's contract, you can easily find it online as it is filed with the league office. If we cut him next year the cap hit is 1.3 million but a savings of 6.2 million. There are no "legal ins and outs" to know, or "contract options". NFL contracts are the most team friendly contracts in all of sports and offer little to no protection to the players.
He is cutable and it would make financial sense to do so base don his play, age , and behavior.
