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Mystic Merlin

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It is May 26th and he's been released. So it's not a post June 1st cut, Arizona is taking their financial medicine now because they are dead in 2023 anyway.
Actually, teams can generally release up to two players before June 2nd with a ‘post-June 1st’ designation. It’s an accounting fiction that lets a team spread the dead money over two years -effective on June 2nd - while letting a player hit the market earlier. Usually teams use the designation in March or so, when players have a better opportunity to find a new home in FA.

That obviously isn’t the case here, as the heat of FA is long since gone and they couldn’t get anyone to trade for Hopkins, and I haven’t seen any indication the team is designating the release as post-June 1st.
 

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Actually, teams can generally release up to two players before June 2nd with a ‘post-June 1st’ designation. It’s an accounting fiction that lets a team spread the dead money over two years -effective on June 2nd - while letting a player hit the market earlier. Usually teams use the designation in March or so, when players have a better opportunity to find a new home in FA.

That obviously isn’t the case here, as the heat of FA is long since gone and they couldn’t get anyone to trade for Hopkins, and I haven’t seen any indication the team is designating the release as post-June 1st.
They are not as they've already used their two post-June 1 slots this offseason on J.J. Watt and Rodney Hudson.
 

RobertS975

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This will definitely punish teams that value kick coverage and do it well. Instead of banging every kick into the end zone, they could strategically kick balls inside the 5 and limit the return to before the 25. Now there's zero incentive to do it because the other team just takes a fair catch and get it at the 25. There's no point to even having kickoffs any more. Just put the ball at the 25 after the extra point.
I suppose there's always a small chance of the kickoff going out of bounds?
 

trekfan55

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This is crazy and out there but would Hopkins be willing to go to the 9ers? I don’t think they have the room, but they have the weapons and the great defense plus stable management.