Green Name Cleaning Day [Ahman and Morlon Waived, Weaver Survived Cut]

[Bigtinylittle]

Originally Posted by painekiller

The way I figure it, dadmg is correct on Green. With two years left on his contract, the accelerated bonus allocation is close to $4M, we save the $4.8 in salary, leaving us a savings of $800K.

Greenwood is easier. This would be his last year of his contract, We save $4.7M in salary and have $1.5M in dead money. For a cap gain of $3.2M

The two players together save us around $4M.

I hope you guys can follow my explanation.

This is a complicated issue which is why we are seeing different figures. The way I se it, the seven mil is the more correct one to use. That's because the Texans' approximately 30 mil available cap space number that is being floated around already has the bonuses for Green and Greenwood this year figured in. So the salary portion doesn't get anything subtracted from it. Green and Greenwood's cuts save us about 9.5 mil in salary. THEN you subtract Green's last year of bonus money (somewhat over 2 mil.) and you get the extra 7 mil available to spend this year. Hope I'm right because 7 mil buys a fair bit more talent than 4 mil.