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[Odegard] The Cardinals take a $21M dead cap hit with the release of DeAndre Hopkins, but he’s totally off the books for 2024. That’s the key from their point of view.

  • May 26, 2023


[Odegard] The Cardinals take a $21M dead cap hit with the release of DeAndre Hopkins, but he’s totally off the books for 2024. That’s the key from their point of view.

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  2. So this year we figure out what we look like, and next year we can drop 💰 on some free agents.

  4. That 2nd part is big… huge 2024 windfall money wise, and as they mention in another tweet if they declare him a June 1st cut they have the option to hit roughly 10.5 per season and spread it, giving us a cap bump this season if needed.

    I think that, for the rebuild, that’s the right move to make even if I will never forget that Bills catch.

  5. That makes sense. They really must have not had any sort of trade market

  6. Yeah, it’s a bummer for 2023, but we’re not really paying anyone anything significant except maybe Kyler. I expect us to make some real moves in FA next year, or maybe even by the deadline this year depending on how other teams end up.

  7. That’s fair, it’s just hard to swallow as a fan that we are going to cut/trade all of our best players. This year is over 4 months before the season starts and we all know it.

    We probably weren’t going to win shit, and it’s looking like we want to make sure that we don’t.

  8. Yeah 100% had to move him before June 1st to just rip the band-aid off now. Feel like this scenario was brought up a bit but a lot of this sub kinda covered their eyes to it.

    Good chance we were lowballed around the draft (round 6+ pick) & tried to call the bluff. Low risk though. Either way we clear Hop’s hit for next year and help our “player friendly” image.

  9. Because it was a pre-June 1st cut all the dead cap, $22.6 million, is on the books for 2023. I don’t mind. Commit fully to the tank. Next summer we’ll look like Chicago did this summer, a ton of picks and cap space to start over and build a foundation

  11. Monti is doing everything he can to have a completely reset cap by 2024. Sucks today, but smart tomorrow. This further helps emanate the tank for this year to have the choice on Williams or Kyler in 2024.

  12. It also makes us look good to potential free agents. He gets to leave and go where he wants instead of being traded to another poverty franchise to waste the last couple years of his career.

  16. I am confident we will lead the league in one key stat this year: sucking ass.

  17. But r/nfl told me that the cardinals needed to trade him for a conditional 7th and pay part of his contract for the next 3 years

  18. Clearing cap space to spend big in free agency next year. Outside of the optics, I don’t mind this! Plus if there is any sort of merit to picking Williams and doing something with Kyler, that’ll free up a ton of money!

  19. So they’re paying him $21 million to play for someone else basically. And it never dawned on them to get SOMETHING for him and control where he landed? You know a team you don’t play this year so he is incentivized to ball out and rub it in your face? Dude’s a Raven by Memorial Day

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