Even though the Miami Dolphins salary cap readjustment has come and gone, the Dolphins still show fairly heavy wear on the Mike Tannenbaum era sins salary cap. The Dolphins were routinely restructuring contracts and deferring guaranteed money under Tannenbaum to manipulate the salary cap and create space to attract middle players in an effort to elevate the team to contention.
As we all know, those efforts did not work too well for the Miami Dolphins, who had to make a sharp change and take everything down. Miami paid the pricey price in 2019, as players who were no longer on the team spent $ 66.9 million on the salary cap.
The good news? That number drops considerably in 2020. The bad news? She remains one of the five worst figures in all of football. The current Dolphins have a maximum limit of $ 23,273,859 for the 2020 season, dollars that count against the salary limit for guarantees previously paid to players who are no longer on the list.
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Where does that dollar figure come from? Who is responsible?
SAF Reshad Jones – $ 10.1M Deadline
Let this serve as the final reminder of what Tannenbaum’s strategy did to the Dolphins situation. Jones signed a $ 48 million, 4-year extension with the Dolphins in 2017 before falling out of favor with Adam Gase in 2018 and missing most of the 2019 season. One year after Jones signed the contract, the Dolphins They restructured in the 2018 low season, freeing up $ 6.6M in capitalization space that would eventually have to be paid.
The Dolphins are paying it now, with Jones incurring an 8-figure cap for not being a member of the team anymore.
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