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That's very unsporting IMO. It's not against the rules as such but still. Kind of like not giving the ball back to the team that put it out so an injury can be treated in our football.

Good. I'm glad he got shit for it. I remember when the Aussie cricket team were bowling and their opponents needed six runs to tie off the last ball. And they could get that by smacking the ball over the boundary. So Aus bowled it underarm along the ground. Many years before they were forgiven for that!

Oh my lor YES! I always laugh at that but if I was a Giants fan....... you can hear what they think of it as the team are leaving. There's some real anger coming down from the stands. "I know that, why don't they?!"

I bet! NYPD escort needed.

I think he caught it but I ain't going to argue.

The Philadelphia Eagles have traded QB Carson Wentz to the Indianapolis Colts for a 3rd round draft pick in 2021 and a 2nd round draft pick in 2023.

www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/carson-wentz-trade-grades-colts-secure-quarterback-as-eagles-potentially-land-a-first-round-pick/

That is quite a bargain price for Wentz who is only 28 and was the #2 pick of the 2016 draft.

Compare that to the 2 first round and 1 third round draft picks the Los Angeles Rams traded to Detroit Lions - along with former #2 draft pick Jared Goff for greybeard, 33 year old QB Matthew Stafford.

This is the 2nd year in a row the Colts will be revamping their QB room. In 2020 38 year old veteran Phillip Rivers came over to Indy after 16 years playing for the Chargers. Rivers lled the Colts to a playoff appearance, then decided to retire at the end of the 2020 season.

It means that its a direct deduction from your team's annual salary cap limit in a specific season.

Its like alimony. Paying someone to go away.

Teams have a 2021 cap of $180 million. Wentz had just signed a new 5 year contract (the wisdom of that decision from a team who sought to trade him less than a year later is another discussion) and no team was going to agree to trade for him AND pay his full salary.

As part of the trade, the Eagles have to pay nearly 19% of their 2021 salary cap to Wentz, a player who will be playing for another team next season. But then they are done.

The Colts will have to pay the final years of his contract after that, to the tune of about $25 million per. 

The Eagles have QB Jalen Hurts under a modest rookie contract for the next 4 years and promoted him to starter towards the end of the 2020 season.

So the Eagles wont have to pony up large coin at the QB position until Hurts rookie contract is over at the end of the 2024 season and can use their available cap space to plug other holes. 

The opposite of dead cap space is the type of cap space that can be restructured and spread out over time. 

Often times a team will approach a high salaried player and ask them to do some sort of salary restructure to divert pay until a later date.

Lets say a player is making $10 million per year for the next 3 years. The team might ask that player to restructure their contract to spread that money over 5 years - which amounts to a two year extension - and then offer a handsome "signing bonus" (which doesn't count again cap space) to agree to the extension.  

That works out well for the player as he gets up front bonus money and a contract extension with extra bargaining power. 

It works out well for the team because they can both divert cap money to future years and sign valuable players to mini contract extensions and avoid costly salary negotiations for new 3 or 5 year contracts.