re: Offseason Moves Tracker (LATEST: OG Radunz signed, DB Ugo Amadi returns on 1 yr deal)

Prepare to see a flurry of moves over the next several days.

McCoy restructured. Estimating around $6.7m in cap space freed up.

Edited thx Chad

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Easily our best and consistent OL

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Things started to fall apart as soon as we lost him early vs Philly in week 3. Still hard to believe we led that game 3-0 going into the 4th.

I know we have had knowledgeable people on here talk up the art of the restructure/extension and its certainly a thing. A good thing. But there comes a time with can kicking you don't have enough contracts to restructure. Then your limited on mid season pickups you will need and extending your good draft picks before they become FA's and then unaffordable.

Do we have the money with our cap and contracts as we like to do them (see above) to compete with most of the league for needed FAs?

Without even doing anything fancy like adding dummy years, just a straight restructuring of the base salaries of Carr, McCoy, and Jordan puts us under the cap, and there are still quite a few other things we can do to get pretty damn far under if we want.

Only chose those 3 in particular because it was the simplest/fewest players to get us under. We can definitely go a lot of different ways.

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IF Carr does indeed stay, I have a feeling we will see dummy years added to his contract, since we hold some leverage with the bonus due on the 17th and I'm sure he'd rather not get cut and agree to any kind of restructuring that doesn't take current money away.

Guys like him usually don't take pay cuts unless the team holds major leverage (which we only hold minor leverage). Or they are just really swell guys...

Just checked and I think I see why we are much more likely to keep than cut Carr.

A restructure (without doing anything fancy) saves us more money this year by a mil than designating him a post June 1st cut. The only argument against is the future money guaranteed, but we are going to have an almost identical cap this year with Carr than without, and it's dumb money to actually have slightly less without a guy than slightly more with a guy.

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Basically the new coach would have to absolutely hate Carr for us to cut him.

I like McCoy, but why is he the highest rated center if he played 7 games

Yeah I haven't really sat down and done a should we or shouldn't we with each player, but rather just a quick check to see if players x, y, and z are restructured with no added/dummy years, what would our cap look like.

We can actually avoid touching Ruiz if we have concerns and still have plenty of cap space, for instance. Then there is always the option to restructure him later if we need room down the line.

My guess is we'll get to about 15 mil under, sign a few FAs and the rookie class, then reevaluate. How we get to 15 mil under can be achieved in various ways.

On Jordan in particular, he cannot be cut now, not even if we designate him (because the actual reflection in the cap doesn't happen until June 1st anyway). He would have to actually be cut post June 1st. So my thoughts on him are he will stay another year if he cannot be traded. Doesn't make sense to cut bait otherwise with the way his cap is.

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