The Landry Hat » shaun hill http://thelandryhat.com A Dallas Cowboys Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Sat, 25 May 2013 20:00:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Who Can the Cowboys Truly Afford? Check the Salary Cap Funds Ledger http://thelandryhat.com/2012/03/08/who-can-the-cowboys-truly-afford-check-the-salary-cap-funds-ledger/ http://thelandryhat.com/2012/03/08/who-can-the-cowboys-truly-afford-check-the-salary-cap-funds-ledger/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:00:38 +0000 Brad Austin http://thelandryhat.com/?p=14143 With the recent franchise tagging of Anthony Spencer, much to my strong disapproval I might add, the offseason direction and possibilities for the Dallas Cowboys have altered significantly.  Instead of debating and predicting past and potential moves through words, I feel it’s time to quantify the offseason roster details using financial tools.  Below I’ve created [...]

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]]> With the recent franchise tagging of Anthony Spencer, much to my strong disapproval I might add, the offseason direction and possibilities for the Dallas Cowboys have altered significantly.  Instead of debating and predicting past and potential moves through words, I feel it’s time to quantify the offseason roster details using financial tools.  Below I’ve created a rough Salary Cap Funds Cash Ledger for the Cowboys offseason.  It’s broken down into specific segments, each discussing the included moves of that section, and their effects on available funds.  I feel this is the best way to truly determine what is even possible in the upcoming months.  This first section begins with the Cowboys opening salary cap cash funds available, which is commonly known to be $12 million, and I’ll explain the adjustments further as we go.

The above section addresses offseason moves that have already been made, and also ones that are widely accepted as imminent.  The ledger starts with the opening available cap balance of $12,000,000.  Following is the Anthony Spencer franchise tag move reducing the available funds by $8.8 mil.  Also a balance increase of $8 mil raises the available balance to reflect coming roster cuts and roster/salary adjustments that have been predicted around this amount.  By cutting Newman after June 1, Dallas will eliminate his $6 mil base salary in 2012 (not $2 mil of the bonus portion as it counts against the 2012 cap).  The remainder of his bonus money will be applied to the 2013 cap.  Also, a few other current roster/salary tweaks are expected to provide another $2 mil or so in relief.  So with the franchise tagging of Spencer and the roster adjustments, the new cap balance ends at $11,200,000.

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