JT and the Salary Cap: A Question and Comment

[EROCK528]

A Question: If JT holds out into the regular season...when can the fins begin to use JT's unpaid salary to sign other players and/or restructure contracts?

A Comment: Wouldn't the dolphins be better off trading JT for the highest draft pick they can get instead of holding on to him...they will get a pick and would free up JT's $7-8 million in salary to sign other players.

 

[Dfootball11]

A Question: If JT holds out into the regular season...when can the fins begin to use JT's unpaid salary to sign other players and/or restructure contracts?

A Comment: Wouldn't the dolphins be better off trading JT for the highest draft pick they can get instead of holding on to him...they will get a pick and would free up JT's $7-8 million in salary to sign other players.

i dont know for sure but i think he owes us money if he holds out.. hopefully someone can clarify this

 

[SoDakDolfan]

I know JT can be fined a little over $14,000 a day for every day of training camp he misses. In the regular season I believe it is his total salary divided by 16 and he forfeits 1/16 of the salary for every game missed. In his case that would be about $450,000 a game! I'm not certain, but I don't think the club can ever subtract his salary from the cap as long as he is still under contract.

 

[NorFlaFin]

I think JT has restructure his original deal so many times. Whats left is pure salary no bonus left to count as "dead money".

Anybody know for certain?

 

[Shula Fan]

IDK...IF I'm him, I skip all the "practices" and say I'm here to play prior to the first game. That way the owner has to pay me or trade me.

 

[Geforce]

A Question: If JT holds out into the regular season...when can the fins begin to use JT's unpaid salary to sign other players and/or restructure contracts?

A Comment: Wouldn't the dolphins be better off trading JT for the highest draft pick they can get instead of holding on to him...they will get a pick and would free up JT's $7-8 million in salary to sign other players.

Trading Taylor will not free up his $7.5 million salary to sign other players. Trading Taylor will however free up about $4 million in cap space. Being about $14 million under the salary cap, having already signed our #1 draft pick and being close to having the league limit in players under contract, we don't need to free up cap space to sign other players.

 

[Kendra_Chelsea]

A Comment: Wouldn't the dolphins be better off trading JT for the highest draft pick they can get instead of holding on to him...they will get a pick and would free up JT's $7-8 million in salary to sign other players.

I would say no. Keeping him until he retires or we get EXACTLY what we want for him will do two things.

1) it will keep future disgruntled vets (like culpepper in the past) dictating what the franchise does with him. We will no longer cut our all pros just because they dont play nice

2) It will put other teams on notice. If you want what we got you MUST deal with us. You can try and get one over on us by waiting until we cut him but you will be waiting for a long time. Because Jason "Barry Sanders" Taylor is under contract with the Miami Dolphins. Until a deal comes along that meets our expectations, he is a dolphin or he is retired.

It may cost us a third or fourth round draft pick next year BUT it will save us tons of problems in the future. :err:

 

[FinFrenzy]

A Question: If JT holds out into the regular season...when can the fins begin to use JT's unpaid salary to sign other players and/or restructure contracts?

A Comment: Wouldn't the dolphins be better off trading JT for the highest draft pick they can get instead of holding on to him...they will get a pick and would free up JT's $7-8 million in salary to sign other players.

Jt's salary is roughly 7.5mil he still has a prorated bonus of 1.780mil counting on the cap this year his total cap figure for the year is 9,280,000.

He can sit out till week 10 and still get most of his money. If he retires there is really nothing for him to pay back he's too far into his contract.

If we trade him than we have his bonus as dead cap space right now and the new team would assume the 7.5mil salary unless he restructures for them.

We can not use any of his cap space while he stays on our roster whether he plays or not.

You can check out the salary cap forum for more info...:up: