Probably the biggest takeaway here is GB wanted cap relief and Smith fits better in Pittsburghs defense scheme wise.

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Frees up cap space, but Tweeter "cap genius" lied. It's only about $7m or something.

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Yeah I didn't realize he had such a future cap hit until I looked it up. I thought the big hit was this year

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That would be awesome, if it were true.

Smith's cap numbers (in million) were
2024: $14.1
2025: $17.5
2026: $18.2
2027: $1.7 (not under contract, just extra dead money).

They're now
2024: $12.1
2025: $9.9

Unless the Packers want to account for the $9.9 million this year and account for it earlier than they have to. Which I'm not sure I've ever seen account for cap hits early, they're usually trying to always push them back.

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He doesn't. Some Tweeter doofus got me.

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Well, he did have a 17 million cap hit, GBs just not getting it all back 😉

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It wasn't true.

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Yeah the difference is cash method vs accrual method of methods of accounting.

Fans (and Media too) keep wanting to state the NFL Cap as Cash method... but it's not, it's Accrual Method.

I still think the Media should start ignoring the NFL Cap, as it makes no sense to them (they don't know accounting) and simply use the Cash Values of the contracts (which are on Spotrac, so easy to look up, they already make it easy) and report the numbers in Cash method so it makes sense to them, and the fans.


I think this goes back to the NFL owners like fan confusion, as it leads to more fan interactions.

It's like fans arguing between a 4-3 or 3-4 defense, when in reality all 32 teams are 4-2 nickel defenses.

And yet all NFL depth charts are in 3-4 or 4-3.

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So this is all about cap space because we lack a pass rush and smith was one of the better ones this year. We can pretty much chalk this season up.