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How could it possibly help our team success as a whole to lose a perennial All Pro offensive weapon RB for the 2018 season and also lose a future 3rd round pick, in order to gain $14.5M against the salary cap this year in the middle of the summer when all of the quality free agents have already been signed???
We currently have about $5.4M in cap space. The final draft pick we have to sign is Terrell Edmunds. Based on what the players selected immediately before him and immediately after him signed for, his ultimate cap hit for 2018 should be about $1.9M. However, due to the offseason rule of 51, he'd push a player making 600K down to the 52nd slot, so our available cap money would essentially drop by only $1.3M when Edmunds signs...so we'd have about $4.1M left.
Consider that the two main free agents that we already signed will count for a combined $3.9M against the cap ($2.4M for Burnett and $1.5M for Bostic). If we really wanted to add someone to improve our defense this season, we could very easily do that with what we have right now...we don't need an extra $14.5 million.
To summarize...
Rescinding Bell's tag makes us weaker now (missing an elite offensive weapon this season) AND makes us weaker in the future (we lose a future 3rd round comp pick). The extra $14.5M we'd gain on the cap is inconsequential, because the cap room that we already have available is sufficient to add the quality of players still unsigned at this point (there are no Aaron Donalds, Luke Kuechlys, or Patrick Petersons available on the open market who would command that amount of money on the open market).
You can claim that your reasoning to dump Bell is not about bitterness or pettiness all you want, but there is literally no logical reason at all why rescinding Bell's tag right now would make this team better in the present or better in the future. None.
We currently have about $5.4M in cap space. The final draft pick we have to sign is Terrell Edmunds. Based on what the players selected immediately before him and immediately after him signed for, his ultimate cap hit for 2018 should be about $1.9M. However, due to the offseason rule of 51, he'd push a player making 600K down to the 52nd slot, so our available cap money would essentially drop by only $1.3M when Edmunds signs...so we'd have about $4.1M left.
Consider that the two main free agents that we already signed will count for a combined $3.9M against the cap ($2.4M for Burnett and $1.5M for Bostic). If we really wanted to add someone to improve our defense this season, we could very easily do that with what we have right now...we don't need an extra $14.5 million.
To summarize...
Rescinding Bell's tag makes us weaker now (missing an elite offensive weapon this season) AND makes us weaker in the future (we lose a future 3rd round comp pick). The extra $14.5M we'd gain on the cap is inconsequential, because the cap room that we already have available is sufficient to add the quality of players still unsigned at this point (there are no Aaron Donalds, Luke Kuechlys, or Patrick Petersons available on the open market who would command that amount of money on the open market).
You can claim that your reasoning to dump Bell is not about bitterness or pettiness all you want, but there is literally no logical reason at all why rescinding Bell's tag right now would make this team better in the present or better in the future. None.
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