Evaluating Lions Dead Cap Money Owed

Evaluating Detroit Lions dead cap money owed compared to other NFL teams.

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00:00 The Detroit Lions rank number four with dead money owed in the NFL.

00:04 Here today to explore that topic is SIL Lions senior writer Vito Circo.

00:09 Vito, give me your thoughts and analysis on the Lions being the fourth highest dead money

00:15 owed in the NFL.

00:16 Well, let's look at it now the specifics here real quick.

00:19 You already nailed it.

00:20 The fourth highest amount of dead cap money owed currently at 15.7 mil in dead cap money

00:26 owed.

00:27 That's a lot of money to give out for guys that aren't going to be a part of the team

00:30 now moving forward, such as Isaiah Buggs, Marvin Jones Jr.

00:34 Guys that weren't long-term fits with this organization.

00:38 Yet when you add it all up, it's still a lot of money to allocate towards guys that aren't

00:42 on the roster currently or moving forward can too, as you know.

00:45 So it takes away from what you can do and give to Jerry Goff, Annalene McNeil, and Amanra

00:50 St. Brown, and Panej Shul.

00:52 Guys that are due for long-term deals coming up here, whether it's because there are going

00:56 to be free agents next offseason or just because they have earned it.

01:00 They deserve these long-term deals.

01:02 And now you're paying out all this dead cap money.

01:04 And that sucks away all the resources you could give to these guys that really deserve

01:07 all the big money that you want to pay lavishly right because they have earned it up to this

01:12 point as well in their respective careers.

01:15 So it stinks for the Lions in that regard.

01:17 But facts are facts.

01:18 And it's something the Lions have to deal with right now.

01:21 Brad Holmes & Company, that Lions front office now, owe $15.7 million in dead cap money.

01:27 And you know what?

01:29 It's just a thing they have to handle this offseason moving forward.

01:33 And obviously, hopefully that number is lower as time goes on for the Detroit Lions organization

01:38 too.