re: Saints releasing Byrd

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So you're saying this is a good move?

And yes I know how the cap works. I've been looking at it for over a month now.

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No you clearly don't.

But I neither said it was a good nor bad move. I just said cap wise it makes total sense.

I'm not completely sold on Bell but he has shown promise, as did Harris.

The money could get us a much better player if spent right.

Byrd was far from advertised his whole time here.

Will Bell be better? I don't know. I don't see him being much of a drop of though.

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And yes I know how the cap works. I've been looking at 2017-18 for over a month now.

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Well let's see what you've said so far:

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he dead money would be cut in half if they cut him next season.

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Well that is false. It goes from $8m to $4.6m. The thing is, that money is already paid out. So it is really irrelevant to anyone wanting to have an actual logical discussion on this

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They save 3.2 million cutting him now and take 8 million in dead money (Pre June)

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You take on $8 million in dead money whether it is pre-June 1st or not. The difference is that if we designate him as a post June 1st cut, we can spread out the cap hit.

Either way, we're not using the space designated in 2017 by a post-June 1st cut in FA unless we do a delayed signing like last year.

What we can use in FA is the $3.2 million in space

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They have 7 million in cap relief next season cutting him and cut the dead money in half.

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Yea, that isn't how this actually works.

Guess what. We save the money in 2017 by cutting him this year too....

Even if it isn't a pre-June 1st cut (which would make zero sense with cap rollover from year to year, unless we need the space to sign players THIS year), we save:

2017: $3.2m
2018: ~ $7.9m

So we create ~$11.1m in cap savings over the next 2 years instead of the $7.1m we save in your scenario.

So here's the question: Is he worth the $3.2m (or more if you do a delayed signing)?