Pats feel good about Stidham's offseason so far

[ralmat55]

I didn't change the subject. I stated reality vs your fantasy football mentality. You just don't get the facts. Give me one team who restructured/extended a player and then traded him to help another team fit under the cap. You don't get that point. So lets say SF restructured Jimmy and knocked his salary down. Perhaps convert a bunch to signing bonus. Do you understand that SF is the one receiving the future dead cap and not NE? Jimmy would be dead money on their books for a much longer period depending on the restructure. SF isn't doing that. THE REWORKING OF THE CONTRACT BY SF IS FANTASY. The Pats could not rework him until they created $25 million in cap space, made the trade, and then the restructure/extension can happen. Right now the Pats have $15,582,717 in cap space. They need $6-$9 million for rookies and $5 million for a season buffer. To trade for Jimmy with this year's draft pics, you will have to see some major movement on the cap from with multiple players in the next week. Gilmore alone is not enough. Hightower could be restructured. There would probably need to be some more. Its fantasy at this point. Jimmy is gone. He will be an option next year.

Randy Moss redid his contract with the Raiders to accomodate his trade to the Patriots in 07.

A redo of Garappolo’s contract to facilitate a trade does not have to include the payment of a bonus or anything else that would increase the 49ers dead money after a trade. The 49ers and Garaoppolo could convert a chunk of his salary to easily achieved performance bonuses which could all be NLTBE and not count against the cap in 2020 because Garappolo played so little in 2020 being injured.

Then again, a pre-trade redo is not be even necessary. Over the Cap currently shows the Patriots $16.1 million under the cap. The Pats could do a simple restructure of D. McCourty’a contract guaranteeing his 2021 salary pushing $6 million over the 3 voidable years of his contract creating $6 million of space bringing the Pats to $22.1 million under. Guaranting Shaq Mason’s salary could create another $3 million of space bringing you to $25.1 million which is enough to accommodate adding Garappolo under the cap with a million to spare because of the rule of 51.

You don’t need the cap space to sign rookies, cover for injuries, and account for players 52&53 plus practice squad on April 30th. The space for all of that can be created by redoing Garaoppolo’s deal post trade. Just a simple restructure (guaranteeing his salary) would create $12 million of space although I suspect the deal would be more of an extension creating even more cap space.

The accounting to fit Garappolo under the Pats cap is not “fantasy”; just standard every day transactions can get it done.

 

[imahobgoblin]

Randy Moss redid his contract with the Raiders to accomodate his trade to the Patriots in 07.

A redo of Garappolo’s contract to facilitate a trade does not have to include the payment of a bonus or anything else that would increase the 49ers dead money after a trade. The 49ers and Garaoppolo could convert a chunk of his salary to easily achieved performance bonuses which could all be NLTBE and not count against the cap in 2020 because Garappolo played so little in 2020 being injured.

Then again, a pre-trade redo is not be even necessary. Over the Cap currently shows the Patriots $16.1 million under the cap. The Pats could do a simple restructure of D. McCourty’a contract guaranteeing his 2021 salary pushing $6 million over the 3 voidable years of his contract creating $6 million of space bringing the Pats to $22.1 million under. Guaranting Shaq Mason’s salary could create another $3 million of space bringing you to $25.1 million which is enough to accommodate adding Garappolo under the cap with a million to spare because of the rule of 51.

You don’t need the cap space to sign rookies, cover for injuries, and account for players 52&53 plus practice squad on April 30th. The space for all of that can be created by redoing Garaoppolo’s deal post trade. Just a simple restructure (guaranteeing his salary) would create $12 million of space although I suspect the deal would be more of an extension creating even more cap space.

The accounting to fit Garappolo under the Pats cap is not “fantasy”; just standard every day transactions can get it done.

SF cannot account for redistributing $25 million without dead cap repercussions. SF is not taking the 2nd or 3rd round pick the Pats would pay for him. I clearly said it would take multiple restructures. The draft is in 5 days. At this point, it is a fantasy.

 

[borg]

It's more like a split between the posters who are total Patriots/BB honks and the rational people.