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Originally Posted by SmootSmack

You make it sound as though the Redskins have $128 million in dead money this year, which of course is not true.

I got that number from ESPN:

Originally Posted by ESPN

The Redskins have managed to remain more competitive despite leading the NFL in "dead" money since 1994 with nearly $128 million, an average of more than $9 million per year, according to an NFL executive with access to league salary information.


Dead money piles up when teams release players before enough time has passed to spread the impact of large signing bonuses across multiple salary caps.


If the Redskins release Brunell, for example, they'll be able to subtract his base salary from the cap, but they'll still have to account for more than $3 million in "dead" bonus money that has yet to count.


The Redskins' dead-money totals have accelerated dramatically since Snyder purchased the team.


Their annual totals were $780,000 in 1994, $1.1 million in 1995, $1.4 million in 1996, $4.2 million in 1997 and $1.3 million in 1998. Subsequent totals have jumped to $7.6 million (1999), $5.7 million (2000), $14.8 million (2001), $13.2 million (2002), $14.4 million (2003), $11.2 million (2004), $20.1 million (2005), $21 million (2006) and $10.7 million last season.

ESPN - How Washington approaches free agency is anyone's guess - NFL

Was just asking that if it was so easy to alleviate dead money, why hasn't it been done?