I appreciate what you did here because it's always fun to see another method, but I have a question and of course some comments. If you restructure all of those players and kick their money into 2026 and beyond, what does the cap overall look like in 2026?
7 of the players you restructured have contracts that void in March or 2026. That will mean that their prior void year money and the new restructure money will all be due in 2026. And if keeping Carr this year and cutting him next year instead, his void year money will also come due in 2026. By my count, dead money just from restructures on the void year contracts and Carr's dead money from releasing him in 2026 will be $70.6m. If also restructuring Saunders and Shepherd, that dead money number grows further as their contracts also void in 2026 and already have some dead money on them as it is. So by delaying the release of any of those players by a year, we will have a potentially worse situation in the second year. You'd also have to account for the increase of prorated roster bonus money on all of the non-void year contract restructures.
While I do like to see alternative ways to do this, it seems like delaying some inevitable hard decisions to get some more money for what is likely going to be a rebuild year anyway. I feel like if Carr stays, somebody else should go. It shouldn't be kicked forward so we can sign new players that we can't really afford. That is how we got in this mess to start with and I don't understand why we'd start a new era with the same mistakes of the past.