damn Earl thomas's salary for one year was worth 22m
he got a 20 mill signing bonus and his base salary was 2 mill
everybody gets a huge chunk of money when they sign deals and then they evenly spread out the cap hit for the signing bonus over the length of the contract
thats why we cant cut him
they'd take on 25 mill in dead money on the cap by cutting him
we dont even have 25 mill in cap space so we'd have to also cut other players if they cut Earl just to get under the cap
even if they do the conduct detrimental thing it only voids his base salary so it would still be 15 mill in dead money if we cut him
hes not going anywhere this season but hes definitely gone after the season