Over The Cap<\/a>. It is more accurate and in-depth than I could give you.<\/p>\nThe biggest impact for teams involves the modification of salary cap accounting rules for players whose contracts will be terminated after June 1 or whose contracts were terminated with the \u201cPost June 1\u201d designation. Prior to June 1 any player removed from a teams roster, either by release or trade, will have all their remaining salary cap allocations accelerate into the current League Year. For example a player with $1 million in prorated money from 2014 to 2017 whose contract is terminated will carry a \u201cdead money\u201d charge of $4 million in 2014.<\/p>\n
However, after June 1 that \u201cdead money\u201d charge now splits between two seasons. Once released the team only needs to account for the current years prorated money in their 2014 salary cap accounting. All future years\u2019 prorated money will now land as \u201cdead money\u201d in 2015. So for the example player above the \u201cdead money\u201d charges will equal $1 million in 2014 and $3 million in 2015. In practice this rule allows teams with underperforming, high priced players to release players before the season and remain salary cap compliant. If such a rule did not exist many teams would have a difficult time, with their salary caps often tight, to release a player with high prorated charges.<\/p>\n
It is important to note, though, that the June 1 rule does not apply to future guaranteed salary. Such future guarantees immediately accelerate into the current season if a player is released. There is no split of those figures.<\/p>\n
For many teams June 2 will open up significant cap room. This is because players designated a \u201cJune 1\u201d cut in the offseason will finally come off the books for those teams. The offseason June 1 designation is used when players do not factor into a teams future plans but the team is usually unable to release the player due to the high \u201cdead money\u201d charge associated with the contract, which, in many cases, would make the team no longer salary cap compliant. Often the team does not wait until June 1 to make the move in order to avoid guarantees kicking in (usually the first week of free agency by sometimes as late as April), roster bonuses from being earned (almost exclusively in the first week or free agency) or non-exercise fees from option bonuses to be made. Prior to June 1 the players\u2019 entire salary cap charge remains on the books even though they are no longer on the team.<\/p>\n
K\u00f6lnerbigblue asks: Ed, apparently Beckham has already served his 6 game suspension for PEDs while he was out of football last year. Is that normal? It just seems odd to me. I know violators don\u2019t get a paycheck while on suspension but he wasn\u2019t even under a contract that he could be paid under. <\/p>\n
Also, what are you going to do with all the extra money from the OBJ clicks you\u2019re getting? I assume the grandkids will get special presents.<\/p>\n
Ed says: Yes, there is precedent for suspensions being served when a player is not under contract. It can prevent players from getting contracts when teams know a suspension is coming.<\/p>\n
As for your second question, the answer is $0. I\u2019m not paid that way.<\/p>\n
Mark Lynch asks: Due to the multiple veteran WR signings can we suspect that the injuries to Nabers & Slayton are not progressing as well as the Giants would like?<\/p>\n
Ed says: Mark, I think that is clearly the case with Malik Nabers. We have been saying for a while now that it appears more and more likely that Nabers won\u2019t be ready to begin the season. The Giants are still hopeful, but it doesn\u2019t seem to be likely. As for Darius Slayton, the Giants expect him to be ready for training camp. Nothing has changed there.<\/p>\n
Peter Duhamel asks: Ed, regarding the contracts signed by OBJ, Smith-Shuster and Berrios, they are all reported as being for $1.3 million minimum deals. But wouldn\u2019t they include incentive clauses for bonus payments if, having made the team, specified numbers are reached? I haven\u2019t read anywhere about that being the case for any of them.<\/p>\n
Ed says: Peter, all three contracts are non-guaranteed $1.3 million veteran salary benefit mininum deals. That means they count $1.075 million against the salary cap, and the players get a small bump in pay based on experience. There are no reported incentives on any of the deals. The incentive is making the team and earning the contract. The Giants take on no dead money for any of the three who do not make the roster.<\/p>\n
Bob Donnelly asks: There was a time when the NFC East was referred to as the NFC BEAST. Do you think the BEAST reawakens in 2026?<\/p>\n
Ed says: Bob, that is certainly possible. We know what the Eagles have been in recent years. My gut tells me there might some regression coming in Philadelphia, but that is still going to be a tough team to play. One of these years the Dallas Cowboys are actually going to be as good as the talent on their roster says they should be. Do we see a version of the Washington Commanders that resembes the 12-5 team from 2024? Do the Giants take a big step forward under John Harbaugh?<\/p>\n
If all of those teams are as good as they could be, then, yes, the division will be very good. To be the NFC Beast, though, I think it needs to be that way for a sustained period of time.<\/p>\n
Have a Giants-related question? E-mail it to bigblueview@gmail.com and it might be featured in our weekly mailbag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karl Oltz asks: Like most Giants fans, I\u2019ve been cautiously optimistic about the upcoming season. But now I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[94560,349,99],"class_list":["post-688240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-new-york-giants-mailbag","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}