02-19-2019, 09:19 AM
(02-19-2019, 01:30 AM)Jpoore Wrote: In this scenario, Mosley cap hit was 7.7 hicks 5.1 Alexander 5.7 dennard 5.2, brown 3.0, etc etc.
Couple things with this. The Bengals don't tend to do heavily back loaded contracts, mainly because they keep guys through the life of their contracts and the escalation on the back end makes them cap prohibitive. The other main thing here is that top flight talent don' take heavily back loaded contracts unless they are heavily guaranteed throughout the life of the contract, Mosley isn't taking a back loaded deal but someone like Alexander or Dennard may. Some guys will take what is referred to as a "hump" deal which means the meat of the contract is in the middle versus front or back, essentially putting all the value during the prime years of the contract.
Putting that all aside by doing everyone on a back loaded deal you essentially screw your self in year two and beyond because the accelerated salary increase of year two causes a huge spike in the cap figure. Mosley for example, if he only made 7.7 year 1 would need to make 14 in year two to catch up on his deal. That escalation across the board would cause huge cap issues especially when you consider the Boyd and AJ resigns coming.
Realistically, I think there are two ways you make this work. You'd have to lose Alexander and Eiffert which I don't think either are huge losses, or you'd need to move Dalton but the issue there would then be your 1st went towards a QB and not a lineman. Even with all this you are working on very thin margins of error in terms of cap flexability.
