Earlier this week, the Falcons restructured deals with Matt Ryan and others to carve out a bit of extra breathing room. Today, we got some additional details on that adjustment, via Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com (on Twitter).
Here’s the breakdown: Ryan’s base pay for 2020 will go down from $8MM to $1.05MM. Meanwhile, tackle Jake Matthews will see his base number trimmed from $10.55MM to $3.55MM. In both cases, the difference was converted to a signing bonus. In effect, it doesn’t change much for either player, but it does allow the Falcons to kick the can down the road and spend more this year.
Here are more deetz from around the NFL, with all links going to Twitter:
- Darius Slay, CB (Eagles): Three years, $50.05MM. $30.05MM fully guaranteed; $26.05MM guaranteed at signing (via Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer)
- Calais Campbell, DL (Ravens): Two years, $25MM. $20MM guaranteed. $10MM signing bonus.
- Justin Ellis, DT (Ravens): One year, $1.047MM. $225K guaranteed. Deal counts for $910K, via the NFL’s veteran salary benefit provision (via Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle).
- Brian Poole, CB (Jets): One year, $5MM. $4.5MM guaranteed. $3MM signing bonus. (via Wilson)
- Le’Raven Clark, OL (Colts): One year, $1.2MM. $300K fully guaranteed (via Joel A. Erickson of the Indy Star).
- Justin March-Lillard, LB (Cowboys): One year, $1.047MM. Veteran salary benefit (via Wilson).
I can understand if the falcons are going for it or being cheap for some odd reason. I think there season is gonna depend on how well they draft and if they can get an impact player
$14m (thereabout) freed on 2 moves. I really don’t understand why people are so concerned about salary cap space. It’s the easiest thing to achieve. Jags were ‘tight against the cap’ until 3 trades & now have boatload of room.
I don’t think it’s much of an issue finding ways to clear some cap space. The issue is filling the talent gap when you have to lose Marcell Dareus, Jake Ryan, AJ Bouye and possibly Yannick to get the cap space. Fine strategy if your looking at a rebuild or a quick reboot, but otherwise tough to immediately compete when you lose talent for cap space.
You could be right. But my thinking on the jags is they know they won’t be better than 500. So why pay 3 players in excess of $25m? Baltimore believes they can win it next year and willing to pay for that and Elway has never been shy to spend.
It makes sense if you’re punting on the season for sure. It would be tough to be a fan of a team that does that on a regular basis.
I live in Jax, its tough! I haven’t been to a game in 4 years. Why, to watch losing?
Nice Payday Slay