That's sunk money. Dead money is after you do the cutting/trading. While he is still on the roster it's sunk. I guess on their chart they make no distinction though.
The only reason I'm making the pedantic distinction is because the Raiders have REAL dead money of over $30m and it's insane.
Yeah I saw that. I think it's smart by Reggie. I just think teams get stupid trying to push problems down the road, and it ends up not working, and the bad times are even worse.
What Drayton McClane did the the Astros all came about b/c he missed in the draft and kept trading the few prospects he had to keep the big league team competitive. He needed to tear down and rebuild but couldn't do it. I know it's a different sport, but I've seen the alternative to not making the hard choice. When a team gets old, you just need to get ruthless and start cutting and trading away what you can