Texans Release TE Owen Daniels & DB Brice McCain

Keith · #1 03-11-2014, 11:19 AM

Cutting Daniels saves $4.5 million on the salary cap. Broken leg from last season should be healed by now.

Letting McCain go saves $900k on the cap as well.

BigBull · #2 03-11-2014, 01:07 PM

Hopefully there will be more cuts to come today. Please let Schaub be one of those.

chuck · #3 03-11-2014, 03:13 PM

I could be mistaken but I believe there's some significant advantage to the team's waiting until July to release Schaub.

Arky · #4 03-11-2014, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by chuck

I could be mistaken but I believe there's some significant advantage to the team's waiting until July to release Schaub.

Yes, could effect the draft strategy and what the other teams think the Texans will do (in the draft). Cutting Schaub only helps out Schaub....

HPF Bob · #5 03-11-2014, 09:47 PM

IIRC, guys with lots of money and multiple years left on the contract can be cut after June 1st and half the cap penalty can be deferred to the following season.

Keith · #6 03-11-2014, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Arky

Cutting Schaub only helps out Schaub....

...and it helps Schaub's new team by cutting him now. The Texans v1.0 would have cut him now if he wasn't in their plans. This latest version has apparently removed the "nice guy" bug...

Arky · #7 03-12-2014, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Keith

...and it helps Schaub's new team by cutting him now. The Texans v1.0 would have cut him now if he wasn't in their plans. This latest version has apparently removed the "nice guy" bug...

Ya, I think you don't toss a guy who gave you a good 6 or 7 years of football on the side of the road like a broken washing machine... OTOH, I don't think there will be any goodbye press conference coming up...

So however they do it, I'd say the odds are pretty heavy he's a goner....