(05-28-2025, 05:55 PM)Smitty Wrote: 1 They have a TPE and can absorb all of Gafford’s salary?
2 There’s no obsession. Only that it opens up the full TMLE to use for Paul (if he won’t accept VetMin)
3 and doesn’t trigger the penalties of being above A1, which may or may not be a useful option during the season:
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-Sign players who were bought out for more than the non-taxpayer mid-level exception.
-Trade in ways that allow them to take back more salary than they send out.
-Use trade exceptions created in the previous season.
1 No. On paper they have one, but only a sliver of it can ever be used, far less than DG salary.
2 It doesn't take giving away Gaff to be able to sign CP3 or someone else to TxpMLE. There are worse players that can be given away to get the job done with room to spare.
3 Those A1 "perks" aren't useable simply by getting your gold star for being below A1. To use any of those, you get hard capped at A1 and can't go over it to use any of those, which means you have to go even farther below, so that you have a spread before getting back up to A1, before they come into play. Not very practical to shed good talent for benefits you can't really use. Item 1 above is a good example of that at play.