00:00A few people sent this to me, and I think it did come out yesterday, Spotrak has, my
00:21homes is 55 by the way, oh, okay, well, then if you're at 55, I think you could be just
00:26fine. Spotrak put out the list of teams going into 2025 kind of sorted out by void cap,
00:35so how much dead money they're going to have off of void years next year. Philadelphia,
00:41New York Jets, Houston, San Francisco, New Orleans, Carolina, Minnesota, Cleveland, Jacksonville,
00:46Dallas, those are the top 10 in the league. Two of those teams made the playoffs. Really?
00:52So two of the top 10 in the most voided money made the playoffs, and so that's why I wanted
00:57to bring that up. And if you're asking to start, and this is very fair, what exactly
01:03is a void year? So we've talked about this a lot, and it's an interesting phenomenon
01:08that feels fairly new. I don't know how many years it's been going on. We're essentially
01:15like Dak Prescott is a great example. We all know that Dak Prescott signed a four year
01:20$240 million deal, right? But there are also four more void years on his contract. So technically
01:29his contract is like kind of eight years for 240 million, but all of those years they don't
01:34plan on actually having that player contracted. They're just using that so they have more
01:40room to spread out the money. I don't know who came up with this, but it is very clever.
01:45There's no like particular start date on this either. I just was going to say if there is,
01:50I don't know what it is, but one of the reasons I wanted to talk about this so much is people
01:56keep asking deferred money. No, the play that is actually different. The player still gets
02:03the money on schedule. You are just able to use these fake void years as a place to spread
02:10out the rest of the money against the cap. Dallas loves to do this, and that's a huge
02:17problem because the way they do it, the bills do too. Actually, the bills aren't that bad
02:22at this, this next coming year. So the bills in Detroit both only have $5.7 million of
02:29void money, Kansas city, $1.8 million. So you see that at least for the upcoming season,
02:36they haven't gone heavy into this, but the one outlier is Philadelphia. So Philadelphia
02:43is at the top of the list for voided money, $26.2 million. That means that next year they
02:50already have $26 million of their cap wiped out. Whereas next year, the Cowboys have $12.7
02:56million of their cap wiped out. But the question that comes up time and time and time again,
03:03how does Philadelphia keep signing these players? Yes. How do they have money and the Cowboys have
03:09no money?
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