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You can find us there as part of Empire Media, AMPI-R-E. Always much appreciated when you tune. And don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. So today I'm going to, well, a couple things. One, I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff on free agency over the next couple weeks. And admit I'm going to be doing my five thoughts for this week, and we'll get into all that.

But just to let you know, like I'll be doing a lot of stuff on free agency over the next couple weeks. And admit I'm going to be doing my five thoughts for this week, and we'll get into all that.

But just to let you know, like, I'll be doing another podcast for Monday and then doing multiple ones next week. Free agency begins the week after. A lot of stuff's going to happen. This team is going to be very, I think this team will be very aggressive and active. And I don't think they're going to shy away from some big, from, if the big money is not going to be an issue here.

Like if they want a guy, whether or not they get them, I know they're going to shine away. Now, everybody's got a price where you say, that's enough, but I'll get into all that over the next week, and so stay tuned for that. So I want to get the five today, and I had to retaped this because I taped it,

and then about 10 minutes after I was done, they released Tyler Biadesh. That, to me, was a surprise. Now, is it a huge surprise? I'm not going to call it a huge surprise because I didn't think he was that great last year. I thought he was, you know, I think, and I would say this, I think

by the move, that's what they're saying, because this is not, I'm going to go into a couple

ramifications here. So let's look at the salary cap. It only creates, only creates about

2.8 some million or two point, a little bit more than 2.8 million on the cap for this year,

if they don't give it a June 1st

designation. So if you're only creating that much space now, this is not about creating salary

cap space. They have right now the fifth most salary cap space in the NFL. Of those top five

teams, they have 53 guys assigned. So like everybody else in the top five has more guys assigned than Washington. So they still have a lot of guys assigned after this move. But, you know, maybe it may even be 52 now. So they have a lot of guys assigned. They have a lot of money. But they didn't have, like, you don't have to do this. If you think this guy is that good, you're not releasing them to save a little under 3 million.

They don't need to create that space. This is not about the salary cap. Now, they can also, they can also create more money by giving it a post-June 1st designation.

They can put that post-June 1st designation on two players each year if they want to.

If they do that, now you're saving 8.3 million against account. But that 8.3 million savings

is not realized until June 1st. So it's not going to help you in free agency right now because

it doesn't exist yet. It doesn't exist until June 1st.

Can it still help you?

Of course.

It can help you, it can help create space for, maybe you can make a move now knowing

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