IR Trade rule?

[Obeg]

Can you trade someone on IR?  I imagine that Gano is probably pretty much healthy at this moment.  Would be nice to trade him to one of the kicker needy teams.

 

[Seltzer]

No 

[Obeg]

Well guess it at least gives us more leverage for a "release with injury settlement" if he feels he needs to latch onto another team this season.

[Mr. Scot]

I believe you actually can now (there was a change sometime back) but the biggest rule governing that kind of trade is that you have to find somebody who's dumb enough to give something up for a guy who was injured badly enough to be designated "out for the year".

[TheCasillas]

I’m so confused why people keep bringing up cut gano while he was on IR.... he isn’t getting paid his active game bonus, and it would result in 5.7mil of dead cap. 

[jumpman910]

10 minutes ago, Seltzer said:

No 

Rule was reversed in 2018 because of Elway. But you'd never know because most teams aren't wasting their time to trade for a player on IR.

[Obeg]

14 minutes ago, TheCasillas said:

I’m so confused why people keep bringing up cut gano while he was on IR.... he isn’t getting paid his active game bonus, and it would result in 5.7mil of dead cap. 

I'm ignorant on all of the cans and cannots ... but my thought was we have what may be a healthy, good kicker on IR.  There are several desperate teams in need of a kicker.. Pats being one of these.  If we can trade off the IR OR use this fact to entice Gano to be generous in the injury settlement - we can get out from under some, if not all of what you mention.

 

[Toomers]

2 minutes ago, Obeg said:

I'm ignorant on all of the cans and cannots ... but my thought was we have what may be a healthy, good kicker on IR.  There are several desperate teams in need of a kicker.. Pats being one of these.  If we can trade off the IR OR use this fact to entice Gano to be generous in the injury settlement - we can get out from under some, if not all of what you mention.

 

  Even if that was to happen, it would save only a couple 100K at best. The 5.6M isn’t going anywhere. 

[Forty-Eight]

Just cut him

[Mr. Scot]

4 minutes ago, Forty-Eight said:

Just cut him

But then he wouldn't get to finish his career on his own terms...

[Snake]

Lol no but a nice thought. 

[Santee_Panther]

Makes no sense to cut Gano right now. He doesn’t count against the 53 man roster, and while on IR hits our cap for $3.7 mil. 

Of we cut him, he would instantly hit cap for $5.6 mil. We can’t injury settle/negotiate out of that $5.6m. It is money we have already paid him via signing bonus.

If we trade him, it would only make sense if the other team enticed us with good enough picks, which isn’t likely for a kicker. 

If Slye stays on his current trajectory, you cut or trade Gano after this season, and his dead cap number drops enough to where we would save about $1.5 mil by cutting him (cap number of $4.5 and dead money of $3 nets $1.5 savings).

[TheCasillas]

1 hour ago, Forty-Eight said:

Just cut him

If we wait until next year it will cost far less. Also, he would still be tradeable when healthy. 

[hepcat]

Gano must have really messed up his plant leg because if he was healthy he would either be kicking for the Panthers or someone else.