Welcome To 2021

[SteveBsFan]

And seeing as nobody has any dead cap space next season right now, I'm thinking that may actually be the case... unless of course every single player who retired only had one season left on his contract.

So either the entire dead cap from a retired player accelerates into one season, or we're just hit with the dead cap of the season he retired on.

Let me give a visual based on what I'm seeing...

Player's Contract in bonus....
Year 1 - $5m
Year 2 - $5m
Year 3 - $5m
Year 4 - $5m

If you cut him, you will get a $5m dead cap hit this year THEN a $15m next year.

However, if he retires, I am thinking you ONLY get a $5m cap hit this year and the $15m is completely wiped from the books.

OR, it does work as cutting but we somehow didn't have a single retired player who was signed through 2022

Thoughts?

[Matt]

If you cut him, you will get a $5m dead cap hit this year THEN a $15m next year.

this is how it works
it tells you right in the game when you cut a guy. the cap hit is the current yr bonus money.
the next year, the cap hit is the bonus money remaining on the entire contract

[SteveBsFan]

Yea but I'm trying to figure out if retiring is the same as cutting. So far I don't see that to be the case, unless everyone who retired had contracts expiring at the end of 2021

[Matt]

Yea but I'm trying to figure out if retiring is the same as cutting. So far I don't see that to be the case, unless everyone who retired had contracts expiring at the end of 2021

Retiring is the same. BUT all the bonus goes to this year. Equivalent to being cut last season

[Kobeck]

lol - I remember being in CAP hades with the Mules and fearing that an old DT would retire and force me to cut like half the team. He held on till that was over but for a couple of offseasons his retirement would have ruined my rebuild. Seems he was named Monroe possibly