Let Me Tell You Something: Brian Gutekunst's Cap Management Is Cracking Like March Ice
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Big Sal from Peshtigo has had ENOUGH — and this time he's coming with receipts. The Packers are carrying $43 million in dead cap in 2026, and over $34 million of it is going directly to the Dallas Cowboys' defensive line. That's not a typo. That's Rashan Gary and Kenny Clark — two guys Green Bay signed to nine-figure extensions — now suiting up for Jerry Jones while Green Bay pays the bill.
- Big Sal breaks down exactly where the dead money is coming from — and why these weren't bad luck, they were choices
- The Rashan Gary extension: signed during a 2-5 season, $96 million, traded for a 2027 fourth-round pick
- Kenny Clark: $64 million in July 2024, gone eleven months later as a cap casualty in the Parsons deal
- The bottom line: you cannot trade away two first-round picks, carry $43M in dead cap, AND call this a contention window — something has to give
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| 0:00.0 | Let me tell you something, Pack Nation. I need you to sit down. I need you to get comfortable, because I am about to walk you through something that is going to make your eye twitch. And I don't mean a little twitch. I mean the kind of twitch with Darlene asked if I'm having a medical event and I have to |
| 0:25.8 | explain to her that no, no, I am just a Green Bay Packers fan in the year of our Lord 2026. And that is |
| 0:35.0 | the medical event. Dead cap money. We're doing it. |
| 0:38.3 | Strap in. |
| 0:39.3 | Now before you turn this off, stay with me here. |
| 0:42.3 | I know dead cap sounds like something your accountant talks about at a dinner you didn't want to go to. |
| 0:48.3 | But this matters. |
| 0:50.3 | This matters a lot. |
| 0:51.3 | And I am going to explain to you why the Packers' dead cap situation |
| 0:56.1 | is not just a number. |
| 0:57.8 | It is a verdict on Brian Buttigants on how this organization makes decisions, on whether |
| 1:04.3 | we are actually a winning franchise, or whether we just tell ourselves we are while the |
| 1:10.1 | books say otherwise. |
| 1:11.8 | Here's what the league looks like right now. |
| 1:14.2 | The Miami Dolphins, negative 7.8 million in effective cap space. |
| 1:19.5 | You heard me, negative. |
| 1:21.5 | They are paying ghost players. |
| 1:23.8 | The New Orleans Saints, $112 million in dead cap. |
| 1:28.3 | 112 million. |
| 1:31.3 | The Jets, 111 million. |
| 1:34.3 | The Browns, 91 million. |
| 1:37.3 | Am I crazy? |
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