re: Looks like Browner is hitting the bricks

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So, why cut him pre-June 1st? You save 1.3 million by doing it after June 1st? Is there any advantage other than not having the douche around the facility?

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Maybe they figured the 2016 cap situation is so jacked up, just deal with it for that one year and start w/ a clean slate in 2017. 

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Or, I am pretty sure they can designate 1 player that is released before June 1st as a Post-June 1st cut.

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The league allows each team to designate up to two players per year as a June 1 cut for cap purposes prior to June 1. It’s the one concession that was given to the players as it allows a player to be cut in March and have time to explore free agency but have his cap hit spread out over two seasons, thus creating more cap space in the current year. The issue though is the mechanism by which this works.

When you designate someone as a June 1 cut the player and his current contract remain on the books until June 1. Going back to the Breaston example has he been designated a June 1 cut his cap charge today would not be $1 million with $2 million on the books in 2014. His cap charge would be $5 million dollars, the same cap charge as if they never cut him at all. When June 1st hits his cap then moves down to $1 million and the other $2 million accelerate into the 2014 season. By that point in time free agency is finished and the extra cap room does not do the team much good. They would have been in a far better cap position during the important time of free agency by releasing Breaston outright as the Chiefs did.

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If he signs with someone else does that help us at all?

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Seahawks Pro Bowler lock

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hitting the bricks

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