2025 Cap Room

[SOJA]

Interesting thought is to absolutely tank your cap by taking on Desaun Watson's contract

Cleveland gives us Watson and two first rounders for like a 7th round pick. 

Immediately cut watson

We basically fug our cap for two years, but who cares. We aren't going to be good next year and maybe, maybe be turning the corner the year after. If all goes according to plan we enter 2027 with a bunch of cap space and tons of young talent (+ maybe a QB from the 2026) draft 

[Basbear]

Its wrong, look at the void yrs. about 13 million minus or dead cap for players that are FAs. If you add about 15 million for early draft picks and 5-10 million for in season signings....

You got nothing in cap space.

Dont believe......

[jb2288]

6 minutes ago, SOJA said:

I agree with everything but Daniel Jones. I'd honestly rather have Dalton than him 

I feel like I'd rather have Dalton too but if Canales and Morgan wanted Jones I would be pretty excited. If they could "fix" him to the level Baker and Geno got he could possibly be the best of those 3. Young, runs like a deer, arm strength for every throw, has always played behind a really bad O Line

[SmokinwithWilly]

1 hour ago, SOJA said:

Interesting thought is to absolutely tank your cap by taking on Desaun Watson's contract

Cleveland gives us Watson and two first rounders for like a 7th round pick. 

Immediately cut watson

We basically fug our cap for two years, but who cares. We aren't going to be good next year and maybe, maybe be turning the corner the year after. If all goes according to plan we enter 2027 with a bunch of cap space and tons of young talent (+ maybe a QB from the 2026) draft 

They've already gone the FA QB route which is what they would have to do again eating up most of the space freed by Watson. They'd be better off to keep those 1sts, draft their own QB, and kick Watson to the curb as soon as his contract is up. 

A young QB on a rookie contract is more valuable than a vet QB. Unless you're the Panthers and your shiny new QB is a huge little anchor.

Edited 19 hours ago by SmokinwithWilly

[Aussie Tank]

8 hours ago, SOJA said:

Interesting thought is to absolutely tank your cap by taking on Desaun Watson's contract

Cleveland gives us Watson and two first rounders for like a 7th round pick. 

Immediately cut watson

We basically fug our cap for two years, but who cares. We aren't going to be good next year and maybe, maybe be turning the corner the year after. If all goes according to plan we enter 2027 with a bunch of cap space and tons of young talent (+ maybe a QB from the 2026) draft 

Do that deal but instead of the 7th give them Bryce 

[Beast_3000]

8 hours ago, SOJA said:

I agree with everything but Daniel Jones. I'd honestly rather have Dalton than him 

Agreed people that say Daniel Jones haven’t watched his awful decision making and ball placement in games. Darnold was better 2 years ago than Jones is right now.

[WhoKnows]

15 hours ago, SOJA said:

Interesting thought is to absolutely tank your cap by taking on Desaun Watson's contract

Cleveland gives us Watson and two first rounders for like a 7th round pick. 

Immediately cut watson

We basically fug our cap for two years, but who cares. We aren't going to be good next year and maybe, maybe be turning the corner the year after. If all goes according to plan we enter 2027 with a bunch of cap space and tons of young talent (+ maybe a QB from the 2026) draft 

Don’t think Cleveland would give us 2 firsts, but I’d do that in a heartbeat to tank hard in 2025. I’d even tell them to give us 2026/2027 1sts if they hesitate on 2025 since they are bad now. It would be good to not waste a year of a rookie for no reason. We need draft capital and a good drafting GM (not sure Morgan is good).

[mrcompletely11]

21 hours ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

Right now according to Sport Trac, we have about 41 million going into next year. Having Bryce designated as a post-June 1 trade is 6 million in dead cap but frees up 4 million. In the far right columns you can see what post-June 1 cuts would give us. 

These moves alone free up an additional 50 million in cap space with 20 million in DC. This is not counting restructuring the contracts of Brown, Hunt, and Lewis.

Why would we restructure? 

[ProcessBlue2]

1 hour ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Why would we restructure? 

Additional cap. It's an option. 

If we want some of the FA names that keep getting thrown around this board you have to pay for it. Especially to come here, our price will be more than everywhere else.

[mrcompletely11]

21 minutes ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

Additional cap. It's an option. 

If we want some of the FA names that keep getting thrown around this board you have to pay for it. Especially to come here, our price will be more than everywhere else.

No we need to clear these contracts and go from there.  Read Vincent richardson Twitter thread about it.  He lays it out nicely