Originally posted by AB81Rules:
Team has $3M in cap room, by trading him they lose $1.55M-$2M in cap room, not happening, not now anyway, and he looks improved, I know it's just one video, but he looks better, almost Mahomes-ish.
Exactly (with respect to the cap; not saying he looks Mahomes-ish, which to me is ridiculous). What follows is not directed at you; just the people who don't seem to understand what you're saying (unless I'm completely mistaken which is possible).
His salary doesn't go away. We get a couple million WORSE in cap room (his cost goes from 9 million to 11 million, as pointed out by AB81Rules), and then we also have to replace him. It isn't 9 million minus 11 million, like some people seem to think. His cap hit for not being here will be 11 million. Look at over the cap 49ers cap calculator. When something is in parentheses, that means it's negative (
why in the world they didn't just use a negative sign is beyond me, but apparently accountants don't understand what negative numbers are because they seem to confuse it with a subtraction operation, even though subtraction is a binary operation which requires TWO numbers to work.../endrant). That's why when you do a pre-June 1st trade and submit, his cap number doesn't go from 9ish million to 2ish million, it goes from 9ish million to 11ish million. Because it's in parenthesis, because you can't undo guaranteed bonus money.
We LOSE cap space by trading him before June 1st, if I understand this correctly. There is no saving money in that situation. We're paying his full 9ish million cap hit he has now PLUS an extra 2ish million, while still having to replace him, if we trade him before June 1st. $11,081,912 is his cap number if we trade him pre-June 1st. Not 2 million. Not 9 million. Not 11 million minus 9 million. 11 million.
If we wait until June 1st, his cap number is his current cap number $9,301,434 minus $3,760,478 (his non-bonus salary), which will make him count $5,540,956 against are cap.
We. Are. Not. Trading. Lance. At least not until after June 1st (which is still highly unlikely) or next year.