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[PHINPHOURLIFE]

Bengals can't afford to part ways with Chad Johnson?



The Bengals would take an estimated $8 million hit on their salary cap in 2008 if they trade or release Chad Johnson, a move the seven-year veteran wide receiver repeatedly has implied he wants. Trading or terminating Johnson's contract would cost the Bengals some $8.03 million in salary cap space this year, according to figures obtained Tuesday by The Enquirer. In other words, if Johnson is not with the Bengals in 2008, the club would have $8 million in dead money against the salary cap of $116 million because of the acceleration of bonus money already paid to Johnson. The Bengals cannot get that money back from Johnson and must account for it toward the cap. Simply put: The Bengals can't afford to part ways with Johnson. -- Cincinnati Enquirer

Do you think that the Cincinnati would go to this extreme to get rid of him?

 

[satz]

No but if they can get player worth 8 million and call it even the team trade the cap hits too.

so you got fine 8 million worth of players who the bengals need.Also if they trade and then cut after june 1st i am sure the cap hit is spread over 2 years to 4 million a pop.

 

[burger13]

Bengals can't afford to part ways with Chad Johnson?



The Bengals would take an estimated $8 million hit on their salary cap in 2008 if they trade or release Chad Johnson, a move the seven-year veteran wide receiver repeatedly has implied he wants. Trading or terminating Johnson's contract would cost the Bengals some $8.03 million in salary cap space this year, according to figures obtained Tuesday by The Enquirer. In other words, if Johnson is not with the Bengals in 2008, the club would have $8 million in dead money against the salary cap of $116 million because of the acceleration of bonus money already paid to Johnson. The Bengals cannot get that money back from Johnson and must account for it toward the cap. Simply put: The Bengals can't afford to part ways with Johnson. -- Cincinnati Enquirer

Do you think that the Cincinnati would go to this extreme to get rid of him?

from http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm:

Mark Curnutte of the Cincinnati Enquirer reports that the Bengals would face a cap charge of $8.03 million by trading receiver Chad Johnson. But Curnutte doesn't address two important details that would reduce the practical consequences in 2008.

First, assuming that the number quoted by Curnutte reflects only the gross cap acceleration, the net hit would be $4.78 million, given that the Bengals wouldn't have to pay Johnson his $3.25 million salary in 2008.

Second, much of the acceleration can be deferred if Johnson is traded after June 1. Under the pre-2006 CBA, this wasn't the case; any trade resulted in a full acceleration of all remaining signing bonus money. Under the current labor contract, only the current year's bonus allocation applies if the player is traded after June 1. The rest of the unallocated signing bonus money would hit the cap in the next year.

 

[DeeperImage]

I'm sure the two clubs would work something out to even trade/defecit.

 

[SabanHater]

draft picks makes everyone forget about dead money and cap hits.

 

[newlife2788]

I think he will stay and work it out.