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Re: Dallas Cowboys Trade block 1972

By Beercloud
12/17/2017 4:53 pm
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Last edited at 1/11/2018 12:27 pm

Re: Dallas Cowboys Trade block 1972

By jgcruz
12/17/2017 6:21 pm
Dallas could get by this season by just trading Estes, a very good and young RB. No impact on the cap. However, Estes is worth no less than a no. 1 draft choice, or a cheaper quality player together with a high draft choice. With Estes gone and $2.3M in cap space, Dallas can sign a dozen or so players for the remainder of the season at minimum salary.

Trading young WR Barnett could also provide more flexibility w/o adversely impacting the salary cap.

Trading Dallas' other better players who are signed long term will impact the long-term cap negatively because of the contracts signed.

Re: Dallas Cowboys Trade block 1972

By Pernbronze
12/20/2017 11:16 pm
jgcruz wrote:
Dallas could get by this season by just trading Estes, a very good and young RB. No impact on the cap. However, Estes is worth no less than a no. 1 draft choice, or a cheaper quality player together with a high draft choice. With Estes gone and $2.3M in cap space, Dallas can sign a dozen or so players for the remainder of the season at minimum salary.

Trading young WR Barnett could also provide more flexibility w/o adversely impacting the salary cap.

Trading Dallas' other better players who are signed long term will impact the long-term cap negatively because of the contracts signed.


They would only affect the cap this and next season as long term contracts prorate up to the next season.

Re: Dallas Cowboys Trade block 1972

By jgcruz
12/20/2017 11:44 pm
Pernbronze wrote:
jgcruz wrote:
Dallas could get by this season by just trading Estes, a very good and young RB. No impact on the cap. However, Estes is worth no less than a no. 1 draft choice, or a cheaper quality player together with a high draft choice. With Estes gone and $2.3M in cap space, Dallas can sign a dozen or so players for the remainder of the season at minimum salary.

Trading young WR Barnett could also provide more flexibility w/o adversely impacting the salary cap.

Trading Dallas' other better players who are signed long term will impact the long-term cap negatively because of the contracts signed.


They would only affect the cap this and next season as long term contracts prorate up to the next season.


Agreed.

However, Dallas is projected to be only $9M +/- below next season's salary cap. With a full compliment of draft choices next season plus an extra 1st rd draft choice, Dallas is going to need all of the cap space it has. For example, if Dallas trades G Francis, arguably its highest rated player, it will lose $15M+ against next season's cap. Same with RT Tobin. QB Simonds would cost about $30M to trade. And so on.

Re: Dallas Cowboys Trade block 1972

By Beercloud
1/11/2018 12:24 pm
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Last edited at 1/11/2018 12:25 pm

Re: Dallas Cowboys Trade block 1972

By jgcruz
1/11/2018 2:47 pm
It's not going to be easy to ease Dallas' salary cap issues by trading its better players because of the bonuses paid to them - which will adversely affect its cap space next season.

It might be easier come the draft to off load a couple of high draft choices for future high draft choices and take some pressure off the cap for next season. Not a great option, and likely unattractive for a new GM. But in the long run, trading a current high #1 draft pick for a future #1 and #2 (or more) might work out for Dallas by spreading out the pain of working off the bad contracts. Just a thought.

Re: Dallas Cowboys Trade block 1972

By Beercloud
1/11/2018 7:05 pm
Ya no way to trade those guys with their contracts. Thanks for bringing it to my attention as I totally spaced it off.


There should be room to at least sign this upcoming draft class now. Free Agents are a ways off.

Those two early 1st rounders next year look like they both could be top 5 or close. That could be a good start to recovery and pretty hard to pass up vs stringing it out. Unless something good comes along of course. There are so many holes to fill that ya just gotta dig in and start plugging em. And with this teams cap problem it's gotta be through the draft for a couple years.

Re: Dallas Cowboys Trade block 1972

By Pernbronze
1/12/2018 10:20 pm
A thought to consider is to trade them away for good players with cheap contracts while the receiver of the trade eats the bonuses.

Re: Dallas Cowboys Trade block 1972

By jgcruz
1/12/2018 10:42 pm
I don't think it works that way. The team trading a player with bonuses built into a contract has the cumulative amount of bonuses for the duration of the contract following the season of the trade applied against the trading team's - not the receiving team's - salary cap in the very next season (i.e., the season immediately following the season of the trade). Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Re: Dallas Cowboys Trade block 1972

By Pernbronze
1/12/2018 11:46 pm
I'm saying he trades his picks to avoid taking on the large first round salary. I was referencing the person receiving his picks would have to eat the bonuses from the players they would trade away.