Cap? What Cap?

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https://overthecap.com/restructure/

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$66,046,346… Let’s get after it…!  B) 

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Restructure won't be simple for the Pack.  B)

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We cannot restructure Cousins' contract. He would have to be extended to get his cap number down.  Everyone else can be restructured: Thielen, Cook, Hunter, Smith, ...

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A Hunter simple restructure won’t save much, but a number of others will. Add to that, if they do an extension for Cousins they could save somewhere around $20 million more. If and it’s a big if with his history, Cousins really wants to remain a Viking. Otherwise it’s trade time. 

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@Havoc1649 said:
A Hunter simple restructure won’t save much, but a number of others will. Add to that, if they do an extension for Cousins they could save somewhere around $20 million more. If and it’s a big if with his history, Cousins really wants to remain a Viking. Otherwise it’s trade time. 

It's really the key to everything. If the Vikings have indeed decided Cousins is in their long-term plans, everything gets very simple. You extend him, drop his cap hit and add some defensive help. Vikings probably go into 22 as a better team than 21, a team that lost--what was it--SIX games by three points or less? 

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For the people that want to restructure Cousins.  What do you see the extension looking like and what's his cap hit each year of the extension?  Are you thinking it's like 3 more years / $40 a year + the existing $45 for 2022?  So something like:
2022: $35
2023: $40,
2024: $43
2025: $47?   

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I expect it will be a 4 or 5 year probably with some voidable years . I expect outs after year 3 where the post June 1 cap hit is close to the salary savings.

2022: $28, $27 of it signing bonus
2023: $33, $17 SB
2024: $35, $17 SB
2025: $49, $17 SB
2026: void $17 cap hit from signing bonus

totally rough math, you can design it favorably to meet future team cap needs. They’d be able to post June 1 move on from him reasonably for the year 2025. 
This is with $8 million in unlikely to be earned bonuses. 

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@MaroonBells said:

@Havoc1649 said:
A Hunter simple restructure won’t save much, but a number of others will. Add to that, if they do an extension for Cousins they could save somewhere around $20 million more. If and it’s a big if with his history, Cousins really wants to remain a Viking. Otherwise it’s trade time. 

It's really the key to everything. If the Vikings have indeed decided Cousins is in their long-term plans, everything gets very simple. You extend him, drop his cap hit and add some defensive help. Vikings probably go into 22 as a better team than 21, a team that lost--what was it--SIX games by three points or less? 

21 kicked the fan crap out of me...

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@purplefaithful said:

@MaroonBells said:

@Havoc1649 said:
A Hunter simple restructure won’t save much, but a number of others will. Add to that, if they do an extension for Cousins they could save somewhere around $20 million more. If and it’s a big if with his history, Cousins really wants to remain a Viking. Otherwise it’s trade time. 

It's really the key to everything. If the Vikings have indeed decided Cousins is in their long-term plans, everything gets very simple. You extend him, drop his cap hit and add some defensive help. Vikings probably go into 22 as a better team than 21, a team that lost--what was it--SIX games by three points or less? 

21 kicked the fan crap out of me...

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse. Remember 2020? Late in the year, as many as 7 starters on defense were out with injuries. Injuries weren't as big an issue in '21, but we found other incredibly imaginative ways to lose. And in both years the schedules were brutal. On the bright side, the '22 schedule looks a little easier.