Cya Jaire

[call_me_ishmael]

There is 19 million of dead cap hit in 2025 and 2026. it's not just 2025.

I don't think that's accurate.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/25113/jaire-alexander

Looks like he was 12M of signing bonus left, 2.34M of pushed back money for the next 2 seasons and a void year yielding ~19M total guaranteed money left.

[Deputy Nutz]

I don't think that's accurate.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/25113/jaire-alexander

Looks like he was 12M of signing bonus left, 2.34M of pushed back money for the next 2 seasons and a void year yielding ~19M total guaranteed money left.

Holy shit, your link literally say dead cap of 19 million, then you click on the scissors and the two years add up to 19 million!

[call_me_ishmael]

Yikes.

https://x.com/kellyhals/status/1878867140020986053

[Patler]

The question with Alexander is very simple: Is it worth about $17 million to keep him for next year? In view of his availability over his entire career and especially the last four years, I think it is not.

$17 million is about what he would be paid in salary, workout and game day bonuses next year. New money to be committed to him for 2025.

The money already paid to him will count against one or more future salary cap, but it really isn't significant to the Packers right now when that happens. Releasing him, even with the dead cap hit, will actually save cap space in 2025, but that alone is not a reason to cut him because the Packers don't need to scrimp and save for the 2025 salary cap.

If he was a free agent, would you give him a one-year contract for $17 million? In essence, that is what the Packers will be doing if they keep him.

[Bretsky]

Jaire has a shit attitude as well. I would never pay him 17 MIL but we don't save that on the cap if we dump his ass. So I"m in the middle. But he doesn't add a thing to the locker room atmosphere

[Deputy Nutz]

Well after refusing to be interviewed in locker clean out on Monday and saying "I have nothing good to say, and I probably won't be back here."
I think Alexander summed it all up for us. Packers will cut him, no one will trade for him. He is talented and I really like his energy but to many injuries and his knucklehead behavior isn't a good mesh on this young team.

[run pMc]

Not sure what the context of his comments were, garbagebird app twitter makes it easy to just have a catchy quote. Jaire is a different kind of dude, but he's not a locker room cancer.

I am starting to lean towards it ending like Joe says - the AJo treatment. Still a good player when healthy, just not healthy enough to count on suiting up for Sunday. The last couple seasons were a coin flip if he would play each Sunday, you can't have that as a DC out of your CB1.

I might have misheard somewhere that it's better to cut him this offseason than next for cap purposes, so I'm of the thinking that they should just rip off the bandaid if they are going to do it.
Gute might want to hang on to him, which I can't help but feel goes against the Wolf-ism that it's better to let someone go a year too soon than a year too late.

[Patler]

... the Wolf-ism that it's better to let someone go a year too soon than a year too late.

"Wolf-ism"??? Lombardi was famous for it!

[Joemailman]

Jason B. Hirschhorn
@by_JBH

Former Packers CB Jaire Alexander continues to miss practice with "something he's been dealing with for a few years," according to Ravens HC John Harbaugh.

Alexander had his knee drained in July. He missed 10 games in 2024 with a knee injury that eventually required surgery.

[Fritz]

Jason B. Hirschhorn
@by_JBH

Former Packers CB Jaire Alexander continues to miss practice with "something he's been dealing with for a few years," according to Ravens HC John Harbaugh.

Alexander had his knee drained in July. He missed 10 games in 2024 with a knee injury that eventually required surgery.

His mind-set?

[bobblehead]

Jaire promised me he was 100% and ready to prove the doubters wrong. If he is missing practice with something he has been dealing with for years he lied. Glad he isn't our headache any longer.

[RandsRevenge]

"Wolf-ism"??? Lombardi was famous for it!

And Forrest Gregg was famous for getting rid of players a year too early and a year too late.

[MadtownPacker]

His mind-set?

Nah, his paycheck. The pennies thrown his way are not nearly enough to risk life and limb getting on a football field.

[MadScientist]

He had knee surgery and is still having knee problems. That's on Baltimore's medical staff and thr GM for not spotting the problems and signing him. Much better that they wasted money on him instead of the Packers.

[bobblehead]

He had knee surgery and is still having knee problems. That's on Baltimore's medical staff and thr GM for not spotting the problems and signing him. Much better that they wasted money on him instead of the Packers.

Best of all because he was signed by them he can't file an injury grievance against the Pack now.