I’m surprised to see us so high. How do we have $72.5 M of dead cap?

I’m not sure we have any huge contracts we traded away, so I’m wondering if it’s Howie’s strategic contract restructing.

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  1. This is an improvement actually. We were by far the worst coming into the off-season.

  2. Given Howie’s entire strategy, I fully expect us to be incredibly high in dead cap most years.

  3. We made 3 super bowls in 8 years. The fuck are the Jets/Fins/Saints doing? How are they ran soooo poorly.

  4. It’s because of how Howie structures contracts. He basically takes an interest free (arguably interest negative) loan on future cap years with virtually every deal, which he needs to “pay back” as dead cap when players leave for any reason – not just trades.

    Expect the Eagles to always be in the top few for dead cap until they change the cap rules.

  6. Are you sure this is correct? When I look at OTC, it has $51.6M for dead cap.

  8. I don’t think that number is correct today but a lot of ours is DG/BG/AJ. AJ is the big one yet to be determined the actual cost vs value for 2026.

  9. I believe we’ve been like top 7 in dead cap for the past 6 years. Howie’s structures with void years will always put us towards the top.

  10. To quote BG: “It don’t matter”

    This is how we do business and it works for us. Howie has the longest leash in the league as a GM and Lurie has deep pockets.

  11. Those are rookie numbers

    Btw to answer your question our 2026 dead cap includes long-gone players like Darius Slay and James Bradberry

  13. You know the arbitrary numbers games the billionaires play with their money is not as exciting as you might think.

  15. I just looked at OverTheCap and it has the Eagles at $51.6 Million is Dead Money. Bryce Huff, Darius Slay, James Bradberry, Brandon Graham, Azeez Ojulari, Za’Darius Smith, Braden Man, Jahan Dotson, Reed Blankenship, Joshua Uche, Kylen Granson, Adoree’ Jackson, Sydney Brown, Kendall Lamm, Kyle McCord, Ainias Smith, Antwaun Powell-Ryland, & Trevor Keegan are the players listed as having dead money associated to them.

  16. Idk how anyone can be surprised. This is literally Howie’s thing. He would put a player on klarna if he could. It’s all interest free loans to him. He puts literally every contract even the smallest ones into void years. A lot of it is wrapped up in our biggest players- Jalen Hurts, AJ Brown, Lane Johnson, Cam Jurgens, Saquon Barkley, Smitty, Jordan Mailata, Landon Dickerson, and now Jordan Davis. Jalen Hurts is going to be like $97m in 2029. Im interested to see what he does with that contract before then.

  17. Why are the saints always so high on this list?

    Are they just really really bad at cap management? I get why the eagles are, Howie is a mad genius, but the saints run a bad team out there year after year.

  18. He continuously restructures and kicks the cap hit down the road. Nothing to worry about

  19. wtf are the Seahawks doing to win a Super Bowl and have the least dead cap, I’m guessing winning with Darnold is a big part of that.

  20. It’s Howie’s way of doing things.. It’s the reason we were able to have such a stacked team for the past few years

    He backloads contracts like crazy, adds a bunch of void years, pays big signing bonuses and restructure a lot of contracts to keep cap hits low. But the downside is when a player leaves, we eat a lot of dead cap.

  23. Because Bryce huff, Darius slay and James bradberry are still on the books. Howie also borrows future cap Space since there’s essentially a negative interest rate on it

  25. And they want us to trade our number 1 receivee when we top 5 in dead cap 🤔

  26. You knew here? This is what Howe does. Most teams are working in the current years cap, Howie is already earmarking for 2028

  27. I also believe the number is in the 50s now, perhaps due to resigning Goddert and not taking 20mil in void off his contract?

  30. We had roughly $10m in cap space at the beginning of the off season and now we’ve got about $35m. The cap isn’t real.

  33. How did the Seahawks and Broncos do it and also were successful in winning in the playoffs.

  34. Over the cap says the eagles have 51 million and change in dead cap. Where is the other 20 million?

  35. Eagles are usually always top 10 in dead cap. They won in 2024 with like the 6th most dead cap or something.

  38. Dead cap simply refers to money that players have received that hasn’t been accounted for, and this graphic is a great example of how context matters.

    We have a lot of dead cap because we compensate players through bonuses rather than through salaries, which allows us to defer a significant portion of their cap hits. That does reduce our usable cap space each season as we have to account for spending in previous years, but we also don’t need as much cap space to sign new players.

    It’s a little bit like paying off a credit card by taking out a new one over and over, except that instead of generating a cycle of crippling debt the cards are 0% interest and we can depend on yearly raises.

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