You cannot do that when the cap hit is far greater for doing so than if he's on the team. The team will keep him through next year and cut him after next season, unless he restructures. The overreaction to contracts on this site is unreal. None of these contracts are albatrosses. They can have plenty of $$$ once they cut/restructure other contracts. Every team in the league has dead cap/cap hits that they wish they didn't have. This isn't a pure science folks. Sometimes guys outperform their deals and sometimes they don't.