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Would anyone else mind if Fales started the game in Buffalo? He should have a better chance than Tanny of actually contributing next year.
Assuming the cap next year is a cool $190 million, ideally we could be looking at about $52 million of that being paid in dead money. I don't think they will do so, as this would be using everything as a pre-June 1st cut (which certainly won't happen if Gase is back and has a playoffs or bust mentality). If the numbers are correct the dead money would be as follows:
1) Cut Reshad Jones ($23,250,000 in dead cap space. Needless to say whoever was responsible for this contract should be on his way out as well).
2) Cut Tannehill ($13,400,000 cap hit).
3) Cut Branch ($2,000,000 hit)
4) Add this to the existing dead cap space (Thanks, Suh....or actually Tannenbaum) and the figures gets to be around $52 million.
4) I'm also letting Parker walk and cutting Quinn
This would leave us with a cap figure of $141,000,000 and a lot of roster holes to fill with roughly $50 million to fill it. This doesn't even consider things like bringing back Wake or Ja'waun James; I actually believe James is the most difficult decision on what to do with players that are on the existing roster. Throw in extensions (Tunsil and Howard) and this figure likely would be reduced further. Add a stopgap veteran QB and signing a draft class and the well dries up quickly.
If I was GM and had a reasonable level of job security for 3-4 years, I'm absolutely doing everything that is listed. I would put a heavy focus of drafting for the trenches on both sides of the line this year. However, 2019 would likely be pretty brutal; you are not having 1/4 of your cap in dead weight and fielding a playoff competitive team. This would set up us nicely for 2020 (high pick to draft a franchise QB; with assets to actually protect said QB).
Why cut Jones despite him being relatively productive and costing us money to cut? Simple, I would want as much cap space for 2020 and beyond as possible (not to mention, he would be age 32 for 2020). This would also allow us to put Minkah at the FS position. Jone's cap figure in 2020 would be about $15 million; if I'm playing for 2020 Jone's isn't on the team with that kind of number.
Given the choice between the above scenario or a scenario where the absolute best case is sneaking into the playoffs based on a hopefully weak schedule and winning nearly every close game (and suffering a blowout loss); I'd take the pain upfront.
There are a few other options (Amendola would free up $6 million with no cap hit) to consider. I just hope whoever the next GM will be will do something the previous GM wasn't - looking beyond a single season.
Assuming the cap next year is a cool $190 million, ideally we could be looking at about $52 million of that being paid in dead money. I don't think they will do so, as this would be using everything as a pre-June 1st cut (which certainly won't happen if Gase is back and has a playoffs or bust mentality). If the numbers are correct the dead money would be as follows:
1) Cut Reshad Jones ($23,250,000 in dead cap space. Needless to say whoever was responsible for this contract should be on his way out as well).
2) Cut Tannehill ($13,400,000 cap hit).
3) Cut Branch ($2,000,000 hit)
4) Add this to the existing dead cap space (Thanks, Suh....or actually Tannenbaum) and the figures gets to be around $52 million.
4) I'm also letting Parker walk and cutting Quinn
This would leave us with a cap figure of $141,000,000 and a lot of roster holes to fill with roughly $50 million to fill it. This doesn't even consider things like bringing back Wake or Ja'waun James; I actually believe James is the most difficult decision on what to do with players that are on the existing roster. Throw in extensions (Tunsil and Howard) and this figure likely would be reduced further. Add a stopgap veteran QB and signing a draft class and the well dries up quickly.
If I was GM and had a reasonable level of job security for 3-4 years, I'm absolutely doing everything that is listed. I would put a heavy focus of drafting for the trenches on both sides of the line this year. However, 2019 would likely be pretty brutal; you are not having 1/4 of your cap in dead weight and fielding a playoff competitive team. This would set up us nicely for 2020 (high pick to draft a franchise QB; with assets to actually protect said QB).
Why cut Jones despite him being relatively productive and costing us money to cut? Simple, I would want as much cap space for 2020 and beyond as possible (not to mention, he would be age 32 for 2020). This would also allow us to put Minkah at the FS position. Jone's cap figure in 2020 would be about $15 million; if I'm playing for 2020 Jone's isn't on the team with that kind of number.
Given the choice between the above scenario or a scenario where the absolute best case is sneaking into the playoffs based on a hopefully weak schedule and winning nearly every close game (and suffering a blowout loss); I'd take the pain upfront.
There are a few other options (Amendola would free up $6 million with no cap hit) to consider. I just hope whoever the next GM will be will do something the previous GM wasn't - looking beyond a single season.
