re: I suck at capology—Can someone break down why we can’t designate Carr a post 6/1 cut?

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can't imagine he didn't give Gayle a place to go to for advice outside of the FO. Every owner does over time. I also believe he left her a list of things not to do. That's a list I would like a peek at

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I’d like to think this was accurate, but considering the stress Old Man Benson was under and his cognitive decline I doubt he got around to this sound advice.

Nothing Gayle has done thus far indicates any outside counsel or even concern for the state of affairs.

Considering Loomis’ smug end of season gum smacking presser last year and doubling down on gaslighting last week “look beyond the results”, he acts like a man who has had no sit down accountable discussion with Gayle.

Until proven otherwise, all hope is lost and we have to be content with a “just happy to be in the club” franchise.

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I wasn’t optimistic on Rita at all, but she did fire 38 executive assistants.

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That speaks to her being a problem, not a very good executive.

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I am confident Rita would’ve made a change at GM years ago

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Right after she moved the team to San Antonio.

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the only thing saving him is Gayle’s love for him.

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Or Gayle doing what Tom told her to do and trusting in Loomis.

Commanders have a bright future

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I think we may have to extend Carr this offseason

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That’s what it looks like. So, if I’m reading this right, we had to restructure him this past offseason to get under the ‘24 cap, but that puts him at $50 million for ‘25 and $60 for ‘26? Or around there. So, if we want to keep him, we can’t have him counting $50 million towards ‘25, so we’ll have to restructure.

But my brother was technically correct, though. We can designate him a post June 1st cut, and save about $30 million, but we’d be eating $21 million in dead cap money for ‘25, right? What about $26? Still more dead cap money for that year or would we be done with him after ‘25? Post June 1sts roll over to the next year if there’s still another year left, no? And if we owe him $60 million for ‘26 dead cap hit would be even more for that year? I think that’s what he’s not factoring in.

Besides the fact that we actually do have to play with a QB, and there’d be no money to spend on a FA, the upcoming draft class looks weak (even if it didn’t, we have so many holes on the team, that we’d have to wind up extending any rookie we drafted by the time the roster was ready to compete, thus eliminating one of the biggest benefit of drafting a rookie QB in the 1st place), and I don’t think Rattler or Heanor will be ready to start in ‘25, if ever.

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You can. You get more money i believe cutting him 6/1 but someone may not want to pay him that and give up picks. Long story short, Lattimore, Kamara, Carr, Jordan can all but cut post 6/1 and save a fortune for this team. So the people saying they can’t get out of his contract are wrong. But, i don’t think they try and get out of it.

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You realize even though cutting people post june-1, the money gets pushed into another year. You save money in 2025, but it then affects 2026 via dead money.

Lattimore
2025: 31.4mil cap hit
Pre June 1 cut: Makes it 31.6mil dead hit we lose money; 2026 - you save the 28mil cap hit he holds currently
Post June 1 cut: Saves 18mil, leaving 13.4mil dead cap; 2026 - 18.2mil dead cap.

Since AK is extended, the numbers below account for Carr, Lattimore, and Jordan.

So while doing that -- you saved 59mil in 2025, you eat nearly 44mil in dead space. And you have now made nearly 61.8mil in dead space for 2026 in those 3 players alone and are now down a QB and CB1

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This is not a positive

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Never said it was a positive, but I’ll take a tyrant over a blind loyalist benevolent of the oft chance she hits lightning in a bottle.

Most of our dead cap is due to players who are gone or washed up

No they can’t. Why? Cause you’re almost 100 million currently over the cap. You speak of dead money being an issue on aging players yet the only contracts you can kick down the road to get under the cap next year are the aging players you speak of. You have to get out of the dead money and there’s 2k ways to do that. Extending them, creating void years, creating even more dead space. Or cut and trade the aging older players and reset it. Yes you have to draft well. But this team is so buried in cap debt that they still have to get rid of the contracts not extend them and create a further mess. You’re talking about creeping dead cap space by cutting players. Meanwhile you have to create more dead money further down the road to even get out of the current debt. Will they? Doubtful. Getting rid of Carr, Lattimore, Jordan, and Rams contract does that. Kamara was the other one but i can’t imagine he’s leaving now. That’s it. That’s all you can do. If you think kicking the can further down the road on those players then you’re part of the problem.

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Trades involving Lattimore have to also take place post 6/1. But all of that frees up appx 80 million dollars.

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We have to be under the cap by the start of the 2025 league year.