If they were desperate to fit in Calvin Johnson's $15.95M base salary, could they craft a contract extension that shaves $11M+ off Stafford's $16.5M base salary? Gonna have to be creative if he's gonna approach the 5 years $125M Derek Carr got. Either way, I refuse to believe they'd willingly pay Calvin $16M, maybe I'm wrong.ericanadian wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2017 4:58 pmStafford currently rings in at $22M cap hit. With him due an extension they could easily put most of this year's cap hit into a signing bonus and open up a lot of room this year. Even if not, cutting Jones or Tate at this point would generate $6M+ depending on which player they cut.Jason wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2017 12:08 pm Lions only have a little bit over $5M in cap space right now, they'd almost be forced to release Calvin Johnson if he came out of retirement, because they wouldn't be able to afford him and I don't know if anyone would be willing to take on his contract. Then he could sign with Oakland if he chose.
Not to mention they aren't releasing Golden Tate to fit in an overpaid physically broken 1 year rental WR. Releasing Marvin Jones would accelerate so much dead money it wouldn't help at all. Let's say they are retarded enough to release Golden Tate who has the 6th most catches in the NFL over the last 3 years, they'd probably just barely garner enough to keep Megatron if they classified him a post-june 1st cut and kicked some money to next year.