Cowboys sign DE Anthiny Hargrove, Free takes paycut

[Bob Sacamano]

superpunk, why aren't you taking on Free's cause here. Giving free agents contracts are always a crapshoot. Why should he give up money?? It's not like he meant to suck!

 

[Midswat]

While unlikely- if Free would play like he did in 2009 and 2010, this would be fine

Still am not convinced he is a starter on opening day though.

That is what we have to hope for, I guess. That Callahan fixes whatever technique issue Free was having. Or that Parnell has continued to progress.

I'd love it if one of those two proved to be at least steady. Just hard to have confidence in them. I mean, I have more confidence in Parnell and he's played very little.

 

[ZeroClub]

You cut him you take the penalty plus the salary of the new shitty player we'd have to pay to replace him and probably do his job nearly as bad as he does.

Agreed.

... we only have to look at recent history.

It was easy and satisfying to cut Davis, Gurode, and Kosier, but it hasn't been easy to find upgrades.

It would feel satisfying to cut Free, but without a good plan to replace him, cutting him is foolhardy.

At this point, Jermey Parnell is only a hope. Hope is not a plan.

(consider Arkin, Bernadeau, Cook, Costa, Holland, Kowalski, Leary, Livings, and Nagy)

 

[superpunk]

yeah. you can't just go cutting people for spite

 

[GloryDaysRBack]

No it wasn't. They should have fucking cut him.

They could have signed someone worth a shit to play RT for 3.5M that Free will make.

Whether or not people were in favor of the contract when he was playing well doesn't matter. He's been shit for 2 years and doesn't deserve to be paid that amount anymore.

There is no "break even". Had they cut him today they take a 10M cap hit this year which is what it would have been had he not restructured.

Wait until June 1st and then cut him and they take 3M in hits this year 7M next year. Odds are they won't use the entire 7M that would be opened up by cutting him after June 1st so any remaining money rolls over to next year and cancels out some of next years 7M hit.

Basically it comes down to how they want to account for 10M over the next two years. They ultimately could have taken the total hit this year, saved 7M and rolled whatever amount over. Roll over 7M and they don't have to worry about his dead money next year......just the same as taking all 10M this year by cutting him today.

Instead, they'll waste 3.5M more on him this year and then still have 7M to work out next year.

It's basically 10M over 2 years or 13.5M over 3 years. The only difference being that Doug Free fucking sucks and won't help the team if he plays like last year. 5M/season versus 4.5M/season if you average it out.

They should have cut his ass. If all they needed was a warm body to fill a roster spot, any one of us could have been that guy.

i heard differently..its my understanding that his 3.5M this year is guaranteed...however, he has ZERO guaranteed next year if he is NOT on the team on the 5th day of the league year...thats a big difference than what youre saying

 

[Hoofbite]

i heard differently..its my understanding that his 3.5M this year is guaranteed...however, he has ZERO guaranteed next year if he is NOT on the team on the 5th day of the league year...thats a big difference than what youre saying

He already has 10M of cap money from previous guarantees. That money doesn't go away.

If he's cut the day after week 17, Dallas will take a 7M cap hit because that is what will be left from his original deal.

I'm talking guarantees in terms of cap money, not new money to be paid.