Okay, I don't know if this really warranted a new thread, so sorry if it doesn't, but I have a question that is just bugging me. All reports seem to say that the Jets will sign Abe to a contract agreed on by his agents and the team he is to be traded to, then trade him. What does this do to us though? I would assume it would hit us in the cap, right? That would really suck. We could go from money players today, to dead broke tomorrow. Or am I totally off-base here? I admit I don't know enough about the details when it comes to cap-play, so I may not have any point at all. I just thought that whenever you sign a player, if you trade him, and he has a number against the cap, it comes out of your pocket. I would have to assume that things like signing bonus he would surely get would get charged to us.
Even with a sign-and-trade situation? Wouldn't that be what we had to do? My understanding is that his agent and whatever team we were trading with would come to terms, we would write up the contract, he would sign, then we would ship him out. Wouldn't we get a cap hit from that? Again, I could be way off here, but I am just wondering. If we just save, then I would be much more in favor of shipping him out. (I still do want him here.)
Actually, yeah I do. I posted a huge messsage about this the other day. Check it out, since it is pretty long to repost here. http://forums.theganggreen.com/showpost.php?p=38835&postcount=33
