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My example includes availability for up to 34 games between 2 players, how many games will the dead cap space be suiting up? also, stars missed very few games for injury. Like incredibly few in his career. Don’t make me defend the guy.

c) you missed the point nearly 100% The cap space of Star staying plus another good rotational player (3rd rb, 3rd lb, 3rd cb, 3rd wr, etc…) being preferred to jones (or settle) plus stars dead cap hit take star plus an ok vet signing and compare it to stars dead cap plus his replacement. Which makes a net better 53 man roster?

You’d have heard that by now

meh. I’m not upset or anything but the calculus in my head says we are probably better either star plus levi (or insert some other similar talent) over just jones for the cap space carved out by the moves not a catastrophe or anything but probably not the play I’d make on the cards we had. and I was probably among the most critical of signing him to this deal. So I guess not a fan of how he came or went

I mean, I was saying globally and not attacking you personally. This is a pretty common discussion as you note seeing it on other social media and I think a lot of people are framing it wrong I do think in general that in the case of a player like this it’s not a particularly productive. He’s an edge rusher that can play standing up too. He’s not regularly putting Milano off the field as his LB title would imply and why I think forcing a label on it can actually be counterproductive for defining the role. if forced, a DE who will also drop back some times

….About which label to use. it will likely be miller, 2 linebackers and 3 linemen as our base defense when all’s healthy. he will mostly rush the passer. doesn’t matter much what label you use Agreed

why do you have to label it? Our best front 6 will be the plan situationally and most of the time that will include VM on the edge

bigger name guys contradicting the one reporting that

guys miss full years due to injury all the time and come back fine. I’d say shredding a knee would be a tougher recovery than this.

Imminent because in 1 minute the day tolls on the nfl calendar and Matt Ryan is due his bonus tomorrow

pitts claims it was about the falcons signing of heyward today and was not trying to create expectations. Who knows. the falcons will owe Matt Ryan a bonus in about 90 minutes though. So we will find out real soon.

and if we don’t take it back it’s a dead cap hit because it’s paid money. this thread is not a good one

the Saints have kamara and Thomas, a solid defense and were one drive away from the playoffs with one of the more horrific situations I’ve seen between injuries/covid. They were close with 3rd and 4th string qb play.

Saints restructures this morning just cleared enough for his salary CJGJ just cleared his Twitter of all Saints content i think it may be a done deal

likely heavy signing bonus. A 20m bonus only counts 4m this year, for example

theres no way anyone involved thinks that 120m will be paid, so why do you?

And honestly, retire or cut if being real.

So 4 year, 17m per and some extra noise at the end?

id bet the back end is not expected and there primarily to spread bonuses out.

I can’t vouch for this particular one, just the first of many to pop up: https://www.nfl.com/news/2022-nfl-draft-compensatory-pick-projections-for-every-team it’s relatively simple. You total up qualified signings vs losses and the net is the volume of picks… if you lost more you reduce the lost list by cancelling similar value players on the two lists the remaining guys get slotted up by average salary against thresholds for each round. Not publicly shared but it’s basically in line annually with a couple percentage points increase to go with salary cap inflation so most good projections nail the volume of picks and only really miss on round if the guy is right on the cusp of the projected value. Essentially just missing where the threshold will land in their projections (ie last year a 7.8m player was the lower round, 8m landed the higher round, so where will an 8.25m guy split to next year) if you follow the process it’s easy and some teams value it enough to put it in high consideration. You have two guys valued the same, go with the one that helps the equation and not just a random gut tie breaker for signings or roster cuts

Only thing that comes to mind is “hometown” as a Clemson guy. If looking for a softer landing spot to avoid drama… but New Orleans would give him the key to the city the day he shows up too so… we will see.

realistically the below is your list when you filter out recent restructures, etc… and several are not particularly valuable, but could be throw ins if the GM of the texans liked them McCoy-CJGJ are a commonly mentioned pairing. Or CJGJ and turner/adebo Erik McCoy Paulson Adebo Payton Turner CJ Gardner-Johnson Cesar Ruiz Pete Werner Adam Trautman Ian Book Zach Baun Landon Young

kamara and Thomas would be highly unlikely. MT is heading the recruitment committee currently. id circle defensive names on the roster if speculating. CJGJ for instance.

it is possible that tweet is not 110% accurate. Not all are gospel. They may have given Watson the courtesy based on his interest in his home town and wanting to drive up other offers from the division rivals. Atlanta could be interested in the similar end game of hitting the Saints/panthers.

they just restructured Matt Ryan creating 55M in dead money to move on this off-season. to get a 10+ year starter is still worth trying to maneuver that but it would be nearly impossible even in our very flexible age of cap manipulation it’d be 90M to have to shift around in dead money from Ryan and salary for Watson.