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***Official*** E!A!G!L!E!S! EAGLES! Ongoing PBP Thread

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2 hours ago, paco said:

paco thinking: Hmmm.... with a total contact that big for only 4 years, it can't be that much guaranteed.  Especially for a player that missed most of last year and played the second half of the previous year hobbled and ineffective

 

:huh: 

It's 75 million in the first year :roll:

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5 minutes ago, Mat said:

It's 75 million in the first year :roll:

So 9 million in base salary and non signing bonuses?  That would be roughly a 20 million 2021 cap hit

1 minute ago, paco said:

So 9 million in base salary and non signing bonuses?

66 million dollar signing bonus 

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7 minutes ago, Mat said:

66 million dollar signing bonus 

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Correct. So if they are saying that is the amount of the signing bonus, subtract that from the year 1 total cost, which is what you said is 75 million.  9 million.

 

 

(and if the two void years are correct, that would mean his cap hit for this year will be in the ball park of 20 million)

18 hours ago, paco said:

This is what is interesting.....

 

It's a 4 year contract extension.  And he was on the franchise tag last year.  Therefore he would be under contract from 2021-2024 and an UDFA in 2025.  

 

Sporttrac does not have numbers yet.  But they do have the following (empty) table

 

 

If I were to GUESS, I bet you Dallas did two things.  

1) Give him an obscenely low base salary this year and next.  The bulk of his base salary will be in 23 and 24

2) Pull a Howie and built in void years in 25 and 26, thus lowering his cap hit over the 4 years and taking a dead hit in 25.  (Detailed bonus info isn't available from what I've seen, but the signing bonus was 66 million.  So If they did that, the signing bonus would account for 11 million each of the 4 years and 22 in the voided year)

 

If this is the case, this makes a TON of sense because his contract is modeled around the upcoming TV deal.  Dak is happy because he gets paid.  Dallas will be happy because his contract will be relative to the cap (and projected increase).

 

Of course, this is speculation on my part, because we don't have any numbers and I'm just some idiot fan who obsesses over the cap making a wild guess.  But if I am on track and it plays out that way..... and Dak stays healthy..... and COVID has little to no effect on the upcoming season..... This will end up looking like a reasonable contract.  

 

So, it looks like I wasn't too far off.  They did in fact give two void years.  What's interesting is that it is currently showing up as a 13.2 mill per year for the signing bonus, with $0 on the second void year which is in place to allow for a 2022 base salary to be restructured. 

What does that mean?  Well currently his guaranteed money is his signing bonus, his 2021 salary and his 2022 salary.  The second void year is put in place in case they want to convert that guaranteed salary into a signing bonus to spread that over the cap, should they need to (and looking at their upcoming cap situation, they may very well will).

 

I was also correct that the base salary balloons quite a bit after the first two years.  It's 9 million this year, 20 million next year (thus the need to potentially convert his 2022 salary), and then 31 million in 2023.  2024 it drops slightly to 29 million, still a huge chunk.  68% percent of his base salary are in the final two years.

 

Two minor things to note:

1) 2023 is *Technically* the first year they can release him and get cap relief.  He will have a whopping $44.2 million dollar cap hit that year and a $39.6 million dead cap hit.  So if they cut him, that will be a $4.6 million dollar savings.  However, if they convert his base salary to a signing bonus in 2022, which I believe is very likely, that will add an additional hit.  How much is TBD, but lets say they reduce his base salary to 2 million with that restructure, that would tack on an additional $3.6 million and basically wiping out any savings.  So 2024 is likely the first year they could move on.

2) He is also due a roster bonus of $5 million in 2024.  In the past I wouldn't even care about this, but we saw how important that became when it came to deciding how to move forward with Carson.  

Treyvon Hester released.  Was set to make $920,000
Blake Countess released.  Was set to make $990,000

Why hasn't the cap number gone down 2 million you ask?

Because only the top 51 players count against the cap.  And seeing that the cutoff is roughly 800k, this move really only "saves" 310,000

Just a total blindspot for Howie. Part of me hopes he misses on the draft again so Lurie has to fire him. 

2 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

Just a total blindspot for Howie. Part of me hopes he misses on the draft again so Lurie has to fire him. 

Not a blindspot for Lurie.  He's Lurie's buffer.  He let's Lurie meddle and takes the bullets for him.

6 minutes ago, rambo said:

Not a blindspot for Lurie.  He's Lurie's buffer.  He let's Lurie meddle and takes the bullets for him.

The salary cap issues, bad FA signings, and horrible draft picks. All his job and he has failed. 

9 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

The salary cap issues, bad FA signings, and horrible draft picks. All his job and he has failed. 

He's taking bullets for the owner.  He's not going anywhere.  Lurie has started meddling too much and Howie is his puppet.

1 minute ago, rambo said:

He's taking bullets for the owner.  He's not going anywhere.  Lurie has started meddling too much and Howie is his puppet.

Just telling a buddy that Lurie is slowly becoming Jones and Snyder 

44 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

Just telling a buddy that Lurie is slowly becoming Jones and Snyder 

I'd say he's already there, unfortunately.  

Isaac Seumalo, G
Converted $3.01 million of 2021 salary into bonus, clearing $2.408 million of cap space with Philadelphia (PHI)

Howie did it!  He solved our cap problems!

Cap Genius! Wizard!

16 minutes ago, Dawkins 20 said:

Cap Genius! Wizard!

If nothing else, this whole fiasco helped educate folks that minor moves like these doesnt make one a brilliant cap manager.  A brilliant cap manager makes contracts that avoids the need to constantly restructure.

Ever see something and you are not sure if it makes you want to laugh or cry?

 

 

 

 

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51 minutes ago, paco said:

Ever see something and you are not sure if it makes you want to laugh or cry?

 

 

 

 

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I guess I have to qualify this by saying if, but if all these reports are true about Lurie playing a more active role than we realized, then this franchise is in even greater trouble than when we thought Howie was really in charge. Be glad for LII. We’re not seeing another for quite some time. 

"Well, they were actually listening to — this was the rumor that was going on in the locker room at the time — they were actually listening to WIP and making decisions off WIP," Brooks said via PhillyVoice.com. "I was like, that can't be true. But they ended up giving a contract to the tight end from BYU [Chad Lewis]."

Javon Hargrave restructured

 

No details yet, but here is what it looked like prior to the restructure:

From OTC

Year Age Base Salary Prorated Bonus Workout Bonus   Guaranteed Salary   Cap
Number
Cap %  
Dead Money & Cap Savings
Cut (pre-June 1)Cut (post-June 1)Trade (pre-June 1)Trade (post-June 1)RestructureExtension 
Total   $26,500,000 $12,250,000 $250,000   $13,750,000   $39,000,000    
2020 27 $1,000,000 $2,450,000 $0   $1,000,000   $3,450,000 1.6%      
2021 28 $12,750,000 $2,450,000 $0   $12,750,000   $15,200,000 7.3%  
$22,550,000
($7,350,000)
2022 29 $12,750,000 $2,450,000 $250,000   $0   $15,450,000 7.6%  
$7,350,000
$8,100,000
2023 📝 30 Void $2,450,000 Void   Void   $4,900,000 2.2%  
$4,900,000
$0
2024 31 Void $2,450,000 Void   Void   $0 0.0%  
$2,450,000
($2,450,000)

From Sportrac

YEAR   AGE BASE SALARY SIGNING WORKOUT CAP HIT DEAD CAP YEARLY CASH  
2020 Contract details by year 27 $1,000,000 $2,450,000 - $3,450,000 $26,000,000 $13,250,000($13,250,000)  
2021 Contract details by year 28 $12,750,000 $2,450,000 - $15,200,000 $22,550,000 $12,750,000($26,000,000)  

POTENTIAL OUT: 2022, 2 YR, $26,000,000; $7,350,000 DEAD CAP

2022 Contract details by year 29 $12,750,000 $2,450,000 $250,000 $15,450,000 $7,350,000 $13,000,000($39,000,000)  
2023 Contract details by year 30 - $2,450,000 - $2,450,000 $4,900,000 -  
2024 Contract details by year 31 - $2,450,000 - $2,450,000 - -  
2023 Free Agent Year 32 UFA

 

 

So going into this, he already had a 5 million dollar dead cap hit after his contract ran out.  Can't wait to see what this looks like now <_<

 

Sounds like its 9.4 million in savings

 Looks like the sites have been updated

Was

  

37 minutes ago, paco said:

 

From OTC

Year Age Base Salary Prorated Bonus Workout Bonus   Guaranteed Salary   Cap
Number
Cap %  
Dead Money & Cap Savings
Cut (pre-June 1)Cut (post-June 1)Trade (pre-June 1)Trade (post-June 1)RestructureExtension 
Total   $26,500,000 $12,250,000 $250,000   $13,750,000   $39,000,000    
2020 27 $1,000,000 $2,450,000 $0   $1,000,000   $3,450,000 1.6%      
2021 28 $12,750,000 $2,450,000 $0   $12,750,000   $15,200,000 7.3%  
$22,550,000
($7,350,000)
2022 29 $12,750,000 $2,450,000 $250,000   $0   $15,450,000 7.6%  
$7,350,000
$8,100,000
2023 📝 30 Void $2,450,000 Void   Void   $4,900,000 2.2%  
$4,900,000
$0
2024 31 Void $2,450,000 Void   Void   $0 0.0%  
$2,450,000
($2,450,000)

<_<

 

Now

Year Age Base Salary Prorated Bonus Workout Bonus   Guaranteed Salary   Cap
Number
Cap %  
Dead Money & Cap Savings
Cut (pre-June 1)Cut (post-June 1)Trade (pre-June 1)Trade (post-June 1)RestructureExtension 
Total   $14,740,000 $24,010,000 $250,000   $1,990,000   $39,000,000    
2020 27 $1,000,000 $2,450,000 $0   $1,000,000   $3,450,000 1.6%      
2021 28 $990,000 $4,802,000 $0   $990,000   $5,792,000 2.8%  
$22,550,000
($16,758,000)
2022 29 $12,750,000 $4,802,000 $250,000   $0   $17,802,000 8.8%  
$16,758,000
$1,044,000
2023 📝 30 Void $4,802,000 Void   Void   $11,956,000 5.3%  
$11,956,000
$0
2024 31 Void $4,802,000 Void   Void   $0 0.0%  
$7,154,000
($7,154,000)
2025 32 Void $2,352,000 Void   Void   $0 --  
$2,352,000
($2,352,000)

 

 

Was

  

37 minutes ago, paco said:

From Sportrac

YEAR   AGE BASE SALARY SIGNING WORKOUT CAP HIT DEAD CAP YEARLY CASH  
2020 Contract details by year 27 $1,000,000 $2,450,000 - $3,450,000 $26,000,000 $13,250,000($13,250,000)  
2021 Contract details by year 28 $12,750,000 $2,450,000 - $15,200,000 $22,550,000 $12,750,000($26,000,000)  

POTENTIAL OUT: 2022, 2 YR, $26,000,000; $7,350,000 DEAD CAP

2022 Contract details by year 29 $12,750,000 $2,450,000 $250,000 $15,450,000 $7,350,000 $13,000,000($39,000,000)  
2023 Contract details by year 30 - $2,450,000 - $2,450,000 $4,900,000 -  
2024 Contract details by year 31 - $2,450,000 - $2,450,000 - -  
2023 Free Agent Year 32 UFA

 

 

 

Now

YEAR   AGE BASE SALARY SIGNING WORKOUT RESTRUCTURE CAP HIT DEAD CAP YEARLY CASH  
2020 Contract details by year 27 $1,000,000 $2,450,000 - - $3,450,000 $26,000,000 $13,250,000($13,250,000)  
2021 Contract details by year 28 $990,000 $2,450,000 - $2,352,000 $5,792,000 $22,550,000 $12,750,000($26,000,000)  

POTENTIAL OUT: 2022, 2 YR, $26,000,000; $7,350,000 DEAD CAP

2022 Contract details by year 29 $12,750,000 $2,450,000 $250,000 $2,352,000 $17,802,000 $16,758,000 $13,000,000($39,000,000)  
2023 Contract details by year 30 - $2,450,000 - $2,352,000 $4,802,000 $11,956,000 -  
2024 Contract details by year 31 - $2,450,000 - $2,352,000 $4,802,000 $7,154,000 -  
2025 Contract details by year 32 - - - $2,352,000 $2,352,000 $2,352,000 -  
2023 Free Agent Year 33 UFA

 

 

 

TL;DR: His 2023 dead cap hit goes from 4.9 million to 11.956 million. Eagles were 25,433,418 over, they are now 16,025,418 over.

I mean I guess all this makes sense if the cap skyrockets due to new TV deals, right?  But we all know Howie will just continue to overextend and kick the can down the road as long as he's in charge.

13 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

I mean I guess all this makes sense if the cap skyrockets due to new TV deals, right?  But we all know Howie will just continue to overextend and kick the can down the road as long as he's in charge.

Do we know the tentative cap space for the Eagles in 22?

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