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mall3013
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Just received it on my phone. I'm happy this got done before camp starts. Now we got to make Jenkins happy.
The great teams make these bets.If you don't have a QB you're not going anywhere in this league. A healthy and in shape Wentz gives us a great chance at getting back to the dance and we have him locked up for the next 5 years. If he gets hurt again then oh well ... but you can't let him leave, otherwise all the cap room wouldn't matter anyhoo. With the way salaries are shooting up (especially with QB's), this will be a good deal for the club the last 2 years of it should Carson stay healthy.
Howie is the best.
Really it's remarkable how he runs the finances here. Gets all the FAs he targets. Brings all the right guys back. He brings in good people and we have a great culture here.
Howie will be great if he keeps Douglas, or replaces him with a VP just as good.
If you don't have a QB you're not going anywhere in this league. A healthy and in shape Wentz gives us a great chance at getting back to the dance and we have him locked up for the next 5 years. If he gets hurt again then oh well ... but you can't let him leave, otherwise all the cap room wouldn't matter anyhoo. With the way salaries are shooting up (especially with QB's), this will be a good deal for the club the last 2 years of it should Carson stay healthy.
Completely agree here....the injury prone risk is a thing. But there is a premium to waiting to see if he is healthy and viable. Prices only go up.
On the surface this makes a lot of sense to let Wentz grow the next half decade and work his way into his next big deal.
I will be very interested to see how this breaks out cap wise and start looking for the levers Howie will leverage cap wise the next five years to absorb this and keep the rest of the roster stacked.
This is a point where many executives have struggled to absorb the big QB cap number and address the rest of the roster. I have confidence in Howie....but it will be interesting.
Spotrac and overthecap have not updated yet, so I still am not 100% certain how this all effects the cap.
But I think it drops his number this year to $3.45 million and in 2020 down to $12.1 from $8.5 and $22.8.
Cap hits under $20 million until 2022, I think.
The numbers look like this:Cap hit are exactly what I am waiting for to final grade this lol. I like a lot of the numbers I am seeing and think they did a great job. But how this counts on the cap and takes flexibility from addressing the rest of the roster is super important to understand.
The numbers look like this:
2019: 8.39
2020: 18.66
2021: 34.67
2022: 31.27
2023: 34.27
2024: 32
Carson Wentz Contract Details, Salary Cap Charges, Bonus Money, and Contract History | Over The Cap
There's a potential for cap savings if he can't stay healthy in 2022. Would be a hefty dead cap that wouldn't make sense unless they were hot garbage.
To me, the biggest thing was making room in 2020. They were able to shave about $5 million off his cap number there. If he had played out on his option year, the hit would have been about $22.78 million.Good stuff...thanks!
OK....we are essentially dead in the water for three years, cap wise. I am good with this. Still some big numbers in the latter years, but dead money is less than cap....so there is that. I don't see them making that move.....just thinking "what if he completely falls apart?" Don't expect that to be the case (faith!)