The 2023 Plan

[omahacolt]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

If they keep getting embarrassed like this he may not have a choice.

that would be the only way but i don't see that happening. i find that extremely unlikely unless we get major injuries

[CletusPyle]

Thank you Ironshaft for all your work here, after Indy beat Buffalo and the 49ers last season, some experts had them as the 5th best team in the league. We all know what happened after that...if Ryan is better than Wentz, and that was the world wide consensus, then how does this team go from a potential AFC championship contender without Ryan, to a potential #5 worst team in the league with Ryan? And if that is true, why should the most amazing and brilliant GM in the Galaxy get to keep his job?

[AlwaysSunnyinIndy]

Originally Posted by Ironshaft

That’s it. Those are the only players in 2023 that would deliver negative cap hit if cut. Every other contract the Colts own would add to the cap space if the player were cut

While I agree that most of the player contracts are written to minimize dead cap hits in later years, I don't think the Colts salary cap situation is as clean as you have indicated.

For instance, after the Colts traded for Matt Ryan, they made two adjustments to his contract. First, as a goodwill gesture, they guaranteed all the remaining money on his deal. Second, they diverted some of the cash flow from 2022 to 2023 to add some more cap space for this last offseason.

Not all of the various contract tracking websites have been fully updated to reflect these changes.


https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/m...alcons-legend/

[Ironshaft]

Originally Posted by AlwaysSunnyinIndy

While I agree that most of the player contracts are written to minimize dead cap hits in later years, I don't think the Colts salary cap situation is as clean as you have indicated.

For instance, after the Colts traded for Matt Ryan, they made two adjustments to his contract. First, as a goodwill gesture, they guaranteed all the remaining money on his deal. Second, they diverted some of the cash flow from 2022 to 2023 to add some more cap space for this last offseason.

Not all of the various contract tracking websites have been fully updated to reflect these changes.


https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/m...alcons-legend/

What is crazy is that all the sites changed his 2023 dead money numbers in just the past day. I draw my numbers from three sites and none of them had 2023 as guaranteed yesterday morning.

Either that or I am a moron. It could be that. I had forgotten the fully guaranteed provision.

Regardless, it makes a rebuild starting in 2023 very challenging other than draft class additions. We only have $17m-$18m in usable cap space to resign our free agents/add new veterans and they will have to make decisions on Okereke, Ngakoue, Dulin, Lewis, and Speed among others. Veteran starters would have to be cut which makes holes, etc.

Good catch.