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Originally Posted by jjchieffan
I would think that the dead cap hit would be the Dolphins the minute they traded him. They're the ones that paid the signing bonus. What have the Jags paid him? They can't take a dead cap hit on money that they didn't pay. Did they give Miami cash in the trade for the remaining signing bonus?
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That's not how it works. You trade for a guy, you assume his contract and financial responsibility. Now, if Albert had agreed to restructure his deal after the trade, then I'm sure that Coughlin wouldn't have given up any guaranteed money on his new deal. But that didn't happen.
Albert played the Jags, plain and simple.
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Originally Posted by jjchieffan
And as far as the being retired so no longer obligated to pay his salary, isn't that why the Seahawks let Lynch sign with the Fade? Because they were going to be on the hook for his salary because he was still under contract? And there was talk of Megatron coming back and forcing the Lions to cut or trade him because of the salary cap hit. How is Albert's situation different?
Not saying that you're wrong. Just trying to make sense of it.
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The Seahawks traded Lynch to the Raiders and Lynch agreed to redo his entire contract so that the Raiders wouldn't be on the hook for the $5 million or so he had left on his Seattle deal.
There's no way in the world the Lions were going to do the same for CJ.