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JOSH DUBOW information from Spotrac and Over year.” with the team until the opener that Some players have come out of Associated Press The Cap, teams between the Super Cutting high-salaried players is season because of run-ins with the situation more than whole. If it seemed as if NFL teams have Bowl and the end of the first week nothingnewintheNFLwheremost and Adoree Jackson got a three-year been shedding contracts nearly as of the league year have released free agent contracts have teams of- frustration over the type of helmet deal worth a reported $39 million fast as signing them in recent weeks players with a combined total of ten committing to paying lucrative the league made him wear. from the after that’s because it’s almost true. approximately $600 million left signing bonuses and guaranteed The other three all were sent Tennessee refused to pay his $10.24 With a shrinking salary cap in on the deals they originally signed. money in the first couple of years packing this offseason with Brown million fifth-year option. a sport with few contracts that That figure excludes players who of a deal and then deciding whether traded to New England as part of a Guard Kevin Zeitler got cut with are fully guaranteed, teams have were on rookie or minimum level to keep the player or get rid of him 2022 pick swap with two years left $12 million left on his contract with spent the weeks leading up to free deals. to create salary cap room. on his $66 million, four-year con- the Giants and promptly signed a agency and the first few days of The cuts have come after the sal- But the rate of it increased sub- tract, and Williams and Joyner cut three-year, $22.5 million deal with the new league year getting out of ary cap was reduced from $198.2 stantially this season because of the this offseason with more than $38 Baltimore that pays him $10 million deals signed in recent years when million in 2020 to $182.5 million lowered cap with the total amount million remaining on their con- this season and guarantees him $16 there was more money available to in 2021 in response to the reduced of contracts cut in the same time tracts. million. spend. revenues resulting from mostly period equaling about $445 million The Raiders also cut guard Richie In one of the more curious cases, Whether it was Kansas City empty stadiums last year because in 2020 and $227 million in 2019. Incognito and brought him back on Miami cut Kyle Van Noy one year getting rid of banged-up and ex- of the coronavirus. One of the teams in a cutting a cheaper deal, and traded away into his four-year, $51 million deal, pensive starting offensive tackles The bloodletting could have been mode was the Raiders. Coach Jon starting offensive linemen Rodney leaving about $36 million unpaid. Mitchell Schwartz and Eric Fisher, more severe had the league and the Gruden bragged in 2019 about the Hudson and Gabe Jackson for mid- Van Noy then returned to New the cutting ties NFLPA not agreed to spread those free agent haul he brought in af- round picks when they refused to England on a two-year, $12 million with and Tyrell losses over multiple years. ter trading away stars Khalil Mack take pay cuts. deal and the Patriots will also get a Williams after building their free “I think the unprecedented part and Amari Cooper instead of giving None of that was part of the orig- fourth-round compensation pick agent class around them, or Ten- being, for the first time in modern them big extensions. inal plan. in next month’s draft based on the nessee shedding starting defensive era, the cap decreases instead of He said at the owners meeting “If you go back two years and say deal Van Noy signed last March. backs Adoree Jackson, Malcolm increases,” Rams general manager that year that the Raiders wouldn’t where was the cap going to be this Others, such as receivers Alshon Butler and Kenny Vaccaro, veterans Les Snead said. “But again, I think have been able to get players such coming season, the answer would Jeffrey and Adam Humphries, are around the league have been sent to many people on this planet, not as Antonio Brown, Trent Brown, have been plus or minus $225 mil- still looking for work after their the chopping block. just us in NFL football, have had Williams and Joyner without those lion,” Mayock said. “We’re look- contracts were wiped out and will In all, according to transactions to make sacrifices, some probably deals. ing at ($182.5 million). It’s simple be lucky to get similar deals now data from SportRadar and contract harder than others over the past Antonio Brown didn’t even last math.” that they are back on the market. Pick against Villanova at your own peril

DAN GELSTON navirus-related pauses totaling 34 days off. Gillespie gave Wright Associated Press days. Wright even had COVID-19 a scouting report on Baylor and PHILADELPHIA — The odds are around Christmas. hoped to join the team as its biggest against Villanova making a run to Villanova opened the season No. cheerleader in time for Saturday’s the Elite Eight. 3 in the AP poll. Led by Jeremiah game. The Wildcats can only hope Well, at least among the bettors: Robinson-Earl, Jermaine Samu- Gillespie knows how to draw up a Las Vegas has No. 1 seed Baylor a els and Justin Moore, the Wildcats winning game plan against Baylor. healthy 6 1/2-point favorite to beat might be ready to meet those lofty “They’re a tough, dynamic, the Wildcats on Saturday in a re- exceptions. physical team that really gets after gional semifinal game. The Wildcats turned a one-point it,” Robinson-Earl said. Inside Villanova’s locker room halftimeleadagainstWinthropinto The Bears, who took a three- — or even outside,where the fifth- a 10-point win on the strength of week COVID-19 pause in February, seeded Wildcats passed the time in holding the Eagles to 28% shooting are led by Big 12 Defensive Player their Indianapolis bubble playing from the floor in the second half. of the Year Davion Mitchell and football and pickleball — the prob- Villanova then knocked down 15 are the top 3-point shooting team ability of advancing in the NCAA 3-pointers in an 84-61 victory over in the nation. Tournament remained in play. DARRON CUMMINGS, ASSOCIATED PRESS North Texas to reach the Sweet 16. “We’ve got some young guys go- “I don’t think the players think Villanova’s Jeremiah Robinson-Earl blocks the shot of North Texas’ James “I do feel better about that, that ing up against some veteran studs,” of themselves as underdogs, which Reese during the teams’ second-round game of the NCAA tournament at we’re starting to play Villanova Wright said. “It’s not just their is a good thing,” coach Jay Wright Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Sunday in Indianapolis. basketball better,” Wright said. talent, but their basketball IQ is said.“Sometimes,that’s something Chris Arcidiacono has started outstanding. That’s what happens you have to battle when they’re not Consider, a third national ti- to Georgetown in the conference for Gillespie in the tournament when guys stay in college a few underdogs.” tle would give the 59-year-old tournament, the Wildcats were a and held his own in March,follow- years. They really learn the game.” The Wildcats as underdogs? Wright as many as Bob Knight, Jim trendy 12-5 upset pick to Winthrop ing in the footsteps of big brother, The game is set for Hinkle Field- Not these ’Cats. Calhoun and Roy Williams. Jared in remote office pools everywhere. and 2018 champ, Ryan. But in a house, where Villanova has lost Certainly, no expert — or even a Butler and Baylor stand in the way. Villanova 73, Winthrop 63. Final. life-moves-pretty-fast moment, four of five times against Big East Temple fan — would consider the If the Wildcats don’t feel like un- In fairness, even Wright won- Gillespie was the only active player rival Butler. Villanova and Baylor Wildcats a plucky Sweet 16 long- derdogs in the bracket,there’s good dered what to expect out of the who played in the 2018 champion- have played just once and the Bears shot like Oral Roberts, as they try reason. The Wildcats were 2-point Wildcats, saying before the Big ship win over Michigan. won in November 2019 at the Myr- and knock off Baylor (24-2).Wright ’dogs to Kansas in the 2016 Elite East Tournament, “I’ve never felt “There’s probably never been tle Beach Invitational. has turned Villanova into the envy Eight game and again in the title like we’ve been able to get this team a guy since we’ve been here, one That history means little to any- of most programs in the sport: a game vs. North Carolina. playing like a Villanova basketball guy, that’s had such an impact on one in a Wildcats uniform. 21st-century dynamo with two Bet against them at your peril. team.” a team,” Wright said.“Collin is our “The good thing about coaching national titles (2016, 2018) that Remember Kris Jenkins? Yes, Gillespie’s torn MCL hurt leader on the court, off the court.” young people age 18 to 22, I don’t stuck the Wildcats with Duke and Plus, crushed by a knee injury to Villanova’s title prospects, but the Gillespie had that big-game really think they think that they’re Kentucky and Kansas and North Big East co-player of the year Col- disjointed season — which still re- comfort level and served as underdogs that often,” Wright said. Carolina in the rarified air of the lin Gillespie, a loss in the finale at sulted in a Big East title — can be Wright’s player liaison on every “As coaches, you definitely know nation’s elite. Providence, and a first-round loss pinned in large part on three coro- topic from the travel schedule to you are.”

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