Cap? What Cap?

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

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

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, ...

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. 

@"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. 

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?   

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. 

@"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? 

@"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...

In two moves, GB cleared about a third of their cap deficit.

@"JustinTime18™" said: In two moves, GB cleared about a third of their cap deficit.

@"Hawkvike25" said:

@"JustinTime18™" said: In two moves, GB cleared about a third of their cap deficit.

Yep, but tagging Davante gonna cost em $19MM. Watching this unfold for GB is going to be interesting and you know ESPN is licking their chops for it to start

@"JustinTime18™" said:

@"Hawkvike25" said:

@"JustinTime18™" said: In two moves, GB cleared about a third of their cap deficit.

Yep, but tagging Davante gonna cost em $19MM. Watching this unfold for GB is going to be interesting and you know ESPN is licking their chops for it to start

They last used the franchise tag in 2010. Not saying they won't here, but it's not something they typically do.

Regardless, it's just further proof that the cap really isn't much of a hurdle to clear if your cap guy is even a little savvy.

@"Hawkvike25" said:

@"JustinTime18™" said:

@"Hawkvike25" said:

@"JustinTime18™" said: In two moves, GB cleared about a third of their cap deficit.

Yep, but tagging Davante gonna cost em $19MM. Watching this unfold for GB is going to be interesting and you know ESPN is licking their chops for it to start

They last used the franchise tag in 2010. Not saying they won't here, but it's not something they typically do.

Regardless, it's just further proof that the cap really isn't much of a hurdle to clear if your cap guy is even a little savvy.

I don't disagree, I just think their 2022 team is going to look a lot different than this years team and that includes losing some high quality players...with or without Aaron back

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"Hawkvike25" said:

@"JustinTime18™" said:

@"Hawkvike25" said:

@"JustinTime18™" said: In two moves, GB cleared about a third of their cap deficit.

Yep, but tagging Davante gonna cost em $19MM. Watching this unfold for GB is going to be interesting and you know ESPN is licking their chops for it to start

They last used the franchise tag in 2010. Not saying they won't here, but it's not something they typically do.

Regardless, it's just further proof that the cap really isn't much of a hurdle to clear if your cap guy is even a little savvy.

I don't disagree, I just think their 2022 team is going to look a lot different than this years team and that includes losing some high quality players...with or without Aaron back

really just depends on how far down the road they want to kick that cap hit in order to keep their current playoff window open.  They have a pretty good roster and likely could find a way not only to keep it intact,  but add some needed pieces with a little cap voodoo.  look how long the saints held it together until they finally said fuck it and hit the reset window.

@"Hawkvike25" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"Hawkvike25" said:

@"JustinTime18™" said:

@"Hawkvike25" said:

@"JustinTime18™" said: In two moves, GB cleared about a third of their cap deficit.

Yep, but tagging Davante gonna cost em $19MM. Watching this unfold for GB is going to be interesting and you know ESPN is licking their chops for it to start

They last used the franchise tag in 2010. Not saying they won't here, but it's not something they typically do.

Regardless, it's just further proof that the cap really isn't much of a hurdle to clear if your cap guy is even a little savvy.

I don't disagree, I just think their 2022 team is going to look a lot different than this years team and that includes losing some high quality players...with or without Aaron back

really just depends on how far down the road they want to kick that cap hit in order to keep their current playoff window open.  They have a pretty good roster and likely could find a way not only to keep it intact,  but add some needed pieces with a little cap voodoo.  look how long the saints held it together until they finally said fuck it and hit the reset window.

It'd have to be pretty damn short as they have some guys they need to pay next year so i'm sure that's being taken into account when evaluating what to do with guys currently on the roster.

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"Hawkvike25" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"Hawkvike25" said:

@"JustinTime18™" said:

@"Hawkvike25" said:

@"JustinTime18™" said: In two moves, GB cleared about a third of their cap deficit.

Yep, but tagging Davante gonna cost em $19MM. Watching this unfold for GB is going to be interesting and you know ESPN is licking their chops for it to start

They last used the franchise tag in 2010. Not saying they won't here, but it's not something they typically do.

Regardless, it's just further proof that the cap really isn't much of a hurdle to clear if your cap guy is even a little savvy.

I don't disagree, I just think their 2022 team is going to look a lot different than this years team and that includes losing some high quality players...with or without Aaron back

really just depends on how far down the road they want to kick that cap hit in order to keep their current playoff window open.  They have a pretty good roster and likely could find a way not only to keep it intact,  but add some needed pieces with a little cap voodoo.  look how long the saints held it together until they finally said fuck it and hit the reset window.

It'd have to be pretty damn short as they have some guys they need to pay next year so i'm sure that's being taken into account when evaluating what to do with guys currently on the roster.

by then they will have identified others that can play current high cap hit positions and make more cap magic.  Maroon is right about one thing,  we (nor any team) are ever as screwed as it looks like.  Its pretty easy for teams that are willing to make it work.