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50mil of the 2025 payroll on players no longer on the Rams roster. It’s not my money. I wonder how this business model was received when first introduced?

It's obviously received quite well since they are the people who decided to cut bait. When you have Kobie Turner, BYoung, Verse, Fiske, Kinchens, Puka, Kyren and others on rookie contracts, you can eat 50 million easily. Simply looking at the dead money doesn't explain anything. Looking at it in context does.

Rams had pretty much the exact same amount of dead cap in 2021. Anyone remember how that worked out? Eagles had over $60 mil in dead cap last year. I forget how they did.

The model seems to work pretty well.

Here are this year's dead cap numbers:

love that list! here's to the effen' niners losing every game please..

This wasn’t a comment or prediction on how 2025 will go, just the weird business of blowing 50mil like it’s nothing while ticket prices, PSLs, parking, continues to sky rocket. Millionaires playing a game for billionaires. Just not the era of sports I enjoy most. Add gambling to the mix with every talking head and sports personality promoting what intelligent people know preys on the young, the stupid and the addicted. But that’s the golden age we live in.

ramsww wrote:This wasn’t a comment or prediction on how 2025 will go, just the weird business of blowing 50mil like it’s nothing while ticket prices, PSLs, parking, continues to sky rocket. Millionaires playing a game for billionaires. Just not the era of sports I enjoy most. Add gambling to the mix with every talking head and sports personality promoting what intelligent people know preys on the young, the stupid and the addicted. But that’s the golden age we live in.

This sounds like a complaint against ticket costs and expenses to watch in person than a complaint about dead money. Otherwise, if they had $0 dead money, the tickets & expenses aren't going to bother you?

Also, and not sure how much this distinction matters in this conversation, dead cap is not money you're paying a player not to play for you. It's money you've already paid him that counts against the cap after he's gone.

Occasionally you do have to play a player actual money but most dead cap has to do with prorating bonuses that have already been paid.

Backloading contracts, prorating bonuses, void years, this is how teams do business. It leads to dead cap. At this point it's kind of status quo.

Goodell is starting to talk about how the cap needs to be reigned in, especially with void years...

Elvis wrote:Goodell is starting to talk about how the cap needs to be reigned in, especially with void years...

I can agree with that. I don't like the void years approach. I also believe there should be cap forgiveness for serious injury. Not to void the money but maybe extend it out further than the contract term. It would ease the cap during the season the player was injured but tack on money to future cap years, so the team doesn't get away not accounting for it.

How about taking even 5% and giving to surviving players from the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's who built the game. Players used to take part-time jobs during the off-season to make ends meet. Poor Fredie Dryer had to take acting gigs.

the dude could actually play! Acting?.. not so much lol (the 80's music intro is just awful)