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Should Dolphins consider trading Ereck Flowers to save on salary cap?

Not exactly a ringing endoresement of a player's on-field value where you need to trade a 5th away just to dump salary.
 
It might be a situation where he rides the bench as an expensive backup, if they do wanna trade him, it might be better to wait until during the season where a team may call about him due to injuries and get desperate and trade for him without Miami having to sweeten the deal.
 
I'm not sure we are in as desperate a situation with the cap to do this. You can't cut him because it costs you more to do so than just keeping him, so you have to trade him which will save $8mill but no one will trade for him because they want him as a player, it's got to be a salary dump and we don't have the stockpile of picks this year to want to give any away. Hard no from me. I'm not that down on him as a player either, he didn't play up to his salary but we've had worse Olinemen starting for this team over the years. Prime candidate to be cut next year though where you save $10 mill on the cap, incurring just a $1mill dead cap.
 
If we bring in a Tackle through the draft, moving Flowers is EXACTLY what we should do. We already know that Kindley and Hunt can play, so there'd be ZERO need to keep Flowers around.
 
Feverdream said:
If we bring in a Tackle through the draft, moving Flowers is EXACTLY what we should do. We already know that Kindley and Hunt can play, so there'd be ZERO need to keep Flowers around.
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Going to be hard to move, without paying for the privilege. I guess it could make sense to throw in a low roud pick for someone to "eat" the contract, but at 10 million, with the cap pinch, I don't envision to many takers.
 
Geordie said:
I'm not sure we are in as desperate a situation with the cap to do this. You can't cut him because it costs you more to do so than just keeping him, so you have to trade him which will save $8mill but no one will trade for him because they want him as a player, it's got to be a salary dump and we don't have the stockpile of picks this year to want to give any away. Hard no from me. I'm not that down on him as a player either, he didn't play up to his salary but we've had worse Olinemen starting for this team over the years. Prime candidate to be cut next year though where you save $10 mill on the cap, incurring just a $1mill dead cap.
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My thoughts exactly. He wasn't awful enough to consider anything this writer suggested and we aren't in a bad cap situation. This writer is a dummy...
 
Why? Depth is important.

Some of our rooks on the line looked good at times last year but it doesn't guarantee they will be better this year.

Injuries may also happen again and I rather not see this team start re-signing guys off the street as they did in past years.
 
Since many of you have said it really won't help us, I would like to see what Flowers can do with another year and a new OL coach. I realize that coach Jeanpierre was the assistant last year, but it's his squad now, so maybe he will change some things and make it his own. Fingers crossed that Flowers mediocre play was due to a nagging injury he had to play through, and if he can get healthy, maybe he will be more solid this year.

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Beach Bum 91 said:
Since many of you have said it really won't help us, I would like to see what Flowers can do with another year and a new OL coach. I realize that coach Jeanpierre was the assistant last year, but it's his squad now, so maybe he will change some things and make it his own. Fingers crossed that Flowers mediocre play was due to a nagging injury he had to play through, and if he can get healthy, maybe he will be more solid this year.

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I wouldn't be against freeing up the cap space, I just don't think it's realistic to be able to shed the contract.

A lot depends on how the staff feels about the young guys. I could see the 10 mil being better spent elsewhere.
 
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