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Browns The salary cap thread

BTW, some of freaking out about 2024, but a few things

1) Restructure Myles and Watson, the rollover money from this year, move on from Amari and bam, we're even.
2) AB isn't going for broke this year while throwing the future out the window. He'll have a plan.
3) The cap allowance will go up, making our current big contracts look better with every passing year
4) Other stuff, that good GM's do (over my head)

Duffin has said he can already see the plan on how we won't end up like the Saints currently are.

Basically, those who understand the cap aren't worried. Not that any here are.
 
While I am not "worried" it does always catch up to some degree. Restructures generally are just kicking the can down the road as they convert salary to a bonus which them gets spread. They just restructured Watson this year so I doubt they do next year again.
 
A path ...
  • You restructure in 2024, and again in 2025
  • Then, extend him (re-do his contract) in 2026, when he'll be 30 years old, which is young with today's QB protection rules
  • At the end of his Browns career, you can split the dead cap over 2 seasons, which will likely be 50 mil per year, while you have a rookie QB on a rookie contract.

50 mil of dead cap per year is completely manageable with a QB on a rookie deal. Especially with next decade's salary cap.
The only hard part of this formula is finding a decent rookie QB at the end, which is always tricky.
This math is why you almost never see teams go from one highly paid retiring veteran QB, to hitting the free agent market right away for an in-his-prime QB.

However, if Watson and AB execute all of this contract finagling, it means in the end, it'll be all worth a successful chapter for the Browns.

I've always envied the Ravens and Steelers, albeit begrudgingly, for being at the top of the division while being in salary cap hell.
 
If this tweet is correct, then AFTER the Harris deal is accounted for, we’d still be ranked in the top half of the league in AVAILABLE cap space, at 12th.

Per OverTheCap’s numbers anyway.

 
After the Shelby Harris accounting, the Browns are:

12th in available cap space
11th in least dead money
1st in active money spent for 2023

And of the top five teams in money spent, we have the most available cap space at $14.8M. Chiefs have the least a $748K

How? Some examples of cap #’s for newly signed players:

Dalvin 4.2M
Harris 3.4M
ZDS 3.0M
Thornhill 2.2M
Obo 2.1M
Dobbs 2M
Akins 1.5M
Moore 1.4M
A-Walk 1.2M
McLeod 1M
Hurst 0.9M

Haslam has spent well
Berry has managed the money & cap well

We’ll see if it translates
 
I think this FO is doing an overall very good job in every area except the drafting of college players. Not that they're bad at it but the 1st round picks seem not to produce as much as one would expect. I give some salary cap credit to Depo. He's the guy that builds the programs with the algorithms that are perfect for managing salary cap numbers. Not so much for drafting though. Some emphasis on the human eye has to be accounted for when drafting people.

The mid and later picks are fine for the most part except for A. Schwartz. After the 2024 draft we'll get back to 1st round picks and hopefully AB does a bit better at it.
 
OconRecon said:
After the Shelby Harris accounting, the Browns are:

12th in available cap space
11th in least dead money
1st in active money spent for 2023

And of the top five teams in money spent, we have the most available cap space at $14.8M. Chiefs have the least a $748K

How? Some examples of cap #’s for newly signed players:

Dalvin 4.2M
Harris 3.4M
ZDS 3.0M
Thornhill 2.2M
Obo 2.1M
Dobbs 2M
Akins 1.5M
Moore 1.4M
A-Walk 1.2M
McLeod 1M
Hurst 0.9M

Haslam has spent well
Berry has managed the money & cap well

We’ll see if it translates
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Jimmy has deep pockets and pays a lot of cash up front, which greatly helps us.
 
^^^WOW!
Reading that article it makes me think the FO is very much what Haslem likes to say it is: something, something correct. Or close to that. (I am aging fast by God.)

Anyway, the salary cap being as low as it is compared to other team's is pure FO wizardry. That and an owner willing to pay up front costs to get the player signed knowing in a few years it will all be redone. We just might be able to sign a damn good player to start the season if we choose to.
 
"Directionally correct" was the phrase Jimmy has used to describe his FO. I knew I'd get it sooner or later. I'm slow.

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