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Originally Posted by BossChief
Bowe - june1 cut 9.5m
Alex Smith - restructure saves 8-10m
Mays - cut 2.7m
Hali - paycut 6-8m
Daniel - trade/cut 3.8m
Devito - cut 4m
That's 34m in cap space on the low end. Enough for Houston, Hudson, Parker and a FA or 3.
Here's where we make a move to make more space while sending a message...
Give Eric Berry a contract extension.
Now....hear me out.
He is due 5,155,000 in base salary and a 300,000 workout bonus in 2015.
Extend him with a 5,455,000 signing bonus on a 5 year deal with a reasonable roster bonus for 2016 and a vet min base salary for 2015. That gives him his salary he would have gotten over next season all at once and lets us wait to pay for it to the cap till next year.
That makes his cap hit this year less than 2m and keeps the guy in KC long term if he recovers and is able to play again.
If he doesn't, we release him next year...don't gave to pay the roster bonus and the original signing bonus accelerates to the cap next year (when we have a lot more cap space).
If I'm figuring that right, it would save us about 4m in cap space.
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I agree with all your points boss - but NFI him each year and don't pay him the salary. This will allow him to keep the 5.5M spread out over five years and give us rights to him when he gets back and only take a 1.1M hit against the cap each year.