From the looks of things we should have $78 MILLION dollars going into next season. That’s assuming we dump Levi, Isaiah, and Iffy.
That’s a lot of $$! 3-4 quality FA’s? Re-up some of our young guns. The question, what is Goff going to do to our cap for 24 or do we delay another year???
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Lions are gonna have to spend a lot of their own players. I’m betting they could get the money to add a couple quality FAs
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Goff, St. Brown, and Penei are all going to get paid, so I assume that’s where all that money is going.
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There’s $15m in dead money for guys with void years in their contracts.
I went through the roster during the bye week to see where we stood with everyone’s contracts.
I hope they get their pay, but it won’t show up on the 24 cap. Usually the first year or two looks very team cap friendly.
We have a boatload of $$ for 2024!
I thought Iffy looked pretty decent this year. Not that we can trust him from a durability standpoint but I was pleasantly surprised by his play. Though my expectations were quite low.
ASB and Penei likely sign extensions…
but that lkely won’t add much to the 2024 cap since they already are under contract for next year.
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@Slay, the dead $$ is accounted for in the cap number. We have big $$ to invest in moving forward.
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If Goff comes on strong again and wins a playoff game or 2 I think they will give him an extension. If not they let him play on the last year of his deal and either extended him after 2024 season or they franchise him or they let him walk depending on how he plays.
St. Brown will get extended.
Swell will get 5th year option and then extended after 2024.
I’m just hoping to make it to the next game! 
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Yeah. I don’t think cutting him for 1.2 or whatever we’d get would be worth it
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From what I’ve seen, paying him 1.2 is not worth it
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I totally knew that…
It still kind of counts. High end FAs or guys who we trade for likely will want contracts beyond 1 year. So if we blow our load this off season, it will carry forward. They have some to spend but likely can’t spend freely because 2024 and 2025 coming due.
I think it comes down to if he is ever gonna develop into anything or he is just some guy on the roster. Id rather have a UDFA that could develop rather then keep somoene on the roster that we should have had a long enough look at by now.
Imagine if we would have kept Dobbs and not Sudfield. We knew Sudfield is not ever gonna be even a quality backup. But we cut Dobbs over him. Now Dobbs looks like a borderline starter. Sorry if you cant show youre gonna be something in 3 years then its time to move on from that player.
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Nope. It’s pretty deceiving, but a lot of this money is already accounted for (or will be). I posted this about 3 weeks ago in another thread:
| Projected Salary Cap | $262,243,426.00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Under Contract (33) | $173,319,356.00 | |
| Void Year $ | $14,301,529.00 | |
| Dead Money | $931,310.00 | |
| Draft Pick Pool (7) | $8,729,618.00 | |
| RFA/ERFA $ (5) | $9,476,000.00 | (2rd Tender Jacobs, sign all ERFAS) |
| Fill Roster (915k * 8) | $7,320,000.00 | |
| Practice Squad | $3,500,000.00 | |
| In-Season Moves | $5,000,000.00 | |
| Projected Cap Space | $39,655,613.00 |
Although after the last couple weeks, maybe Jacobs doesn’t get a 2nd round tender, which would free up ~5m.
Every dollar counts… eventually.
The Lions can kick that can down the road a long ways.
Lions are like the 2017 Rams… probably have another 5 years to kick down the road before things get uncomfortable.
Brad may not want go “Les Snead” on the cap…
but the option is there if he chooses to do so.
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If their last two years is the worst case scenario involving cap hell then sign me up for kicking
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When Brad took over… Lions were indeed in cap hell hell.
That really is something that shouldn’t be overlooked when people grade his success so far.
He now has a bunch of flexibility.
He also has a bunch of contracts that expire after this season.
There are a lot of unknowns moving forward.
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I’m eager to see how painful the N.O. reboot is from a financial standpoint. If it’s just really a suck for a year or two and it’s gone then I don’t really see why all teams won’t begin to proceed they way they have.
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