RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT

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Daniel Lee Young -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/7/2024 3:52:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: joejitsu quote: ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser quote: ORIGINAL: joejitsu quote: ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen quote: ORIGINAL: Daniel Lee Young Welp… Loooooong off season ahead.. Really hoping KFC takes his cap hit out of Minnesota.. The danger with KFC's $28.5 dead cap is it only applies if he leaves, i.e. they could try to resign him and work some more void year/dead cap magic beyond 2024. Wow. He could be around our neck in some form for several more years? That's crazy. He has all the leverage too because we have to make a decision by March 13th. On the 14th that deap cap space is a lock on our cap. He can hardball us bigtime. Geez. I'm glad you all know a lot about how the salary cap works, because it's like Greek to me. Let's hope he chooses to move on his own, but that doesn't seem likely. Too much hoping to cling to the status quo.. Detroit ditched Stafford.. got Goff, and picks..

Jeff Jesser -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/7/2024 3:58:40 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen quote: ORIGINAL: ratoppenheimer quote: ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen We might leapfrog the Jets in the draft but the SOS is incredibly close so will have to wait for the games to conclude. mackey did the math, and we were tied - now, ours got tougher, and the jets got easier.... Bummer, but the afternoon games have to be played. It's Buff v Miami tonight, which is .500 so good for the Jets. We were a bit 'ahead', i.e. a slightly easier schedule. Ironically, losing to the Lions makes our SOS a tiny bit better... which could cause us to lose out to the Jets. That kind of irony always exists though. Who is Mackey? Local sports guy that works for Skor North. He's good at stuff like that

Bill Johanesen -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/7/2024 4:04:21 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser quote: ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen quote: ORIGINAL: ratoppenheimer quote: ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen We might leapfrog the Jets in the draft but the SOS is incredibly close so will have to wait for the games to conclude. mackey did the math, and we were tied - now, ours got tougher, and the jets got easier.... Bummer, but the afternoon games have to be played. It's Buff v Miami tonight, which is .500 so good for the Jets. We were a bit 'ahead', i.e. a slightly easier schedule. Ironically, losing to the Lions makes our SOS a tiny bit better... which could cause us to lose out to the Jets. That kind of irony always exists though. Who is Mackey? Local sports guy that works for Skor North. He's good at stuff like that Thanks. Record wise it was key that we lost to Det and the Jets beat NE. But that's a big swing in opponents SOS.

Bill Johanesen -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/7/2024 4:21:02 PM)
With Vikings and Jets common opponents as well as several games like GB vs Chi where you can simply assign one win and one loss randomly, I think the opponent SOS can be calculated now. The only outlier game seems to be SF vs Rams with SF as the 'lone' team. Too lazy right now to first list the W/L records for every team.

Ricky J -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/7/2024 6:04:55 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen quote: ORIGINAL: Daniel Lee Young Welp… Loooooong off season ahead.. Really hoping KFC takes his cap hit out of Minnesota.. The danger with KFC's $28.5 dead cap is it only applies if he leaves, i.e. they could try to resign him and work some more void year/dead cap magic beyond 2024. If you don't mind, how would that worK? IOW, if they resign him for 2 years will there still be money coming out of our cap even after he finished out those two years as well? Im sure this is elementary to some but not to me.

Richard Neussendorfer -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/7/2024 8:17:07 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Ricky J quote: ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen quote: ORIGINAL: Daniel Lee Young Welp… Loooooong off season ahead.. Really hoping KFC takes his cap hit out of Minnesota.. The danger with KFC's $28.5 dead cap is it only applies if he leaves, i.e. they could try to resign him and work some more void year/dead cap magic beyond 2024. If you don't mind, how would that worK? IOW, if they resign him for 2 years will there still be money coming out of our cap even after he finished out those two years as well? Im sure this is elementary to some but not to me. I defer to you guys on the capologist stuff.

Daniel Lee Young -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/7/2024 11:02:17 PM)
KFC gets an additional 28. + million from the Vikings, if all he does is sit on his couch and fields offers from teams desperate for a lifetime middle of the road qb who has a lifetime, one win in the playoffs..10 in 2024, 2025, and 4 mill in 2026 and 2077. Al, for absolutely no effort on his part. If, given his history of fully guaranteed contracts, we are the desperate team, he is going to demand multiple years at some ridiculous salary per year, guaranteed.. That cap money is what, was what, and will be, what prevents the Vikings from fixing the many holes, we will have, and will create trying to sign JJ, and others, and pick up better than barrel scrapers from free agency.. The sad part is his money is not the only money sitting out there dead… Look at what we are paying Harrison smith..others… Cousins and that fully guaranteed money, will = 10 million in prorated bonus in 2024, for doing absolutely nothing to contribute to changing course from wannabes, + other amounts of deferred bonus money( the team favors that he gave us by deferring money), that we gave up to keep Mr mediocre after we fell for the bait of getting into the playoff, the first time. IMO, we are in cap hell, and

Daniel Lee Young -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/7/2024 11:07:33 PM)
We need to bite hard on some bullets and lop off some more dead meat.

Bill Johanesen -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/8/2024 8:58:57 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Ricky J quote: ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen quote: ORIGINAL: Daniel Lee Young Welp… Loooooong off season ahead.. Really hoping KFC takes his cap hit out of Minnesota.. The danger with KFC's $28.5 dead cap is it only applies if he leaves, i.e. they could try to resign him and work some more void year/dead cap magic beyond 2024. If you don't mind, how would that worK? IOW, if they resign him for 2 years will there still be money coming out of our cap even after he finished out those two years as well? Im sure this is elementary to some but not to me. Once his contract expires, all the money sitting in various void years (for Cousins, it's out to 2027) accelerates/comes due as dead money in the following season (next season, 2024). If his contract expires and we later resign him as a free agent, that dead money is still due in the same fashion. So that leaves the scenario where we extend him between now and when his contract expires. I think, but don't know for sure, that they can adjust/change the void year money any way they want but it still has to be accounted for in the books. He's already been paid the money sitting in the void years. If his dead cap was for example just $10 million and they were flush with cap they could probably transfer that dead cap to his contract over two years and his dead cap would disappear. But $28.5 m is a lot to absorb, especially when a new contract for Cousins won't be cheap. IMO they'd probably add a void year or two to spread out a fair amount of his money.

Bill Johanesen -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/8/2024 9:13:15 AM)
Read somewhere that if a player is traded, any so-called unpaid (for accounting purposes) guaranteed salary is transferred to the new team. Thought that could have been another reason to trade Hunter earlier, but his void money is listed under prorated bonus and restructure so I don't think there would have been that extra advantage but am not sure. And because his money is stashed in void years vs being in an active year of his contract, I really don't know.

Ricky J -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/8/2024 10:47:06 AM)
Thank you! This is basically what I thought - probably from your previous explanations - but I appreciate it Unless Kirk is going to give a heck of a discount where we could use up the void year money there will be money to pay after he leaves. So, keep doing the same thing, hit on a rookie or go with a Mullins clone. Hope can be a tiring thing. We need to bite hard on some bullets and lop off some more dead meat.

Jeff Jesser -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/8/2024 10:53:33 AM)
The problem they have created with this is that he holds all the cards. He can hold his ground and a 40+ mill a year with 2 years guaranteed (just an example) and then what? You say "yes" and we continue down this same path just kicking the can down the road again or you say "no" and he walks, gets his money from someone else, and we still have 28 mill on the books for next year. All this has to be decided by March 13th BTW and who knows how his rehab will look at that point.

Bill Johanesen -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/8/2024 11:24:22 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Ricky J Thank you! This is basically what I thought - probably from your previous explanations - but I appreciate it Unless Kirk is going to give a heck of a discount where we could use up the void year money there will be money to pay after he leaves. So, keep doing the same thing, hit on a rookie or go with a Mullins clone. Hope can be a tiring thing. We need to bite hard on some bullets and lop off some more dead meat. It's sort of the circle of life in the NFL. As for lopping off more dead meat, Harrison Smith - at his current salary for 2024 - has to be the top target.

Bill Johanesen -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/8/2024 11:25:54 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser The problem they have created with this is that he holds all the cards. He can hold his ground and a 40+ mill a year with 2 years guaranteed (just an example) and then what? You say "yes" and we continue down this same path just kicking the can down the road again or you say "no" and he walks, gets his money from someone else, and we still have 28 mill on the books for next year. All this has to be decided by March 13th BTW and who knows how his rehab will look at that point. He doesn't hold all the cards. 4-6 QBs will be coming out. He will be bargaining as an unemployed, old QB dealing with an achilles injury.

Ricky J -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/8/2024 1:39:56 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen quote: ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser The problem they have created with this is that he holds all the cards. He can hold his ground and a 40+ mill a year with 2 years guaranteed (just an example) and then what? You say "yes" and we continue down this same path just kicking the can down the road again or you say "no" and he walks, gets his money from someone else, and we still have 28 mill on the books for next year. All this has to be decided by March 13th BTW and who knows how his rehab will look at that point. He doesn't hold all the cards. 4-6 QBs will be coming out. He will be bargaining as an unemployed, old QB dealing with an achilles injury. I was going to say a similar thing: he should hold nothing; give MN a hell of a deal if you want a shot at a championship or shoot for it somewhere else. Right now it's, do you want a championship or is money more important to you ... as I see it.

David Levine -> RE: WEEK 18: @ Lions 1-7-24 12:00PM CT (1/8/2024 1:59:49 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Ricky J quote: ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen quote: ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser The problem they have created with this is that he holds all the cards. He can hold his ground and a 40+ mill a year with 2 years guaranteed (just an example) and then what? You say "yes" and we continue down this same path just kicking the can down the road again or you say "no" and he walks, gets his money from someone else, and we still have 28 mill on the books for next year. All this has to be decided by March 13th BTW and who knows how his rehab will look at that point. He doesn't hold all the cards. 4-6 QBs will be coming out. He will be bargaining as an unemployed, old QB dealing with an achilles injury. I was going to say a similar thing: he should hold nothing; give MN a hell of a deal if you want a shot at a championship or shoot for it somewhere else. Right now it's, do you want a championship or is money more important to you ... as I see it. Sadly he might end up with the most money and not a good shot at a championship... ...with us.

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