Potential Offseason Cuts and Cap Savings

[That Guy]

you might not like how scheed phrased his response, but it's true that letting portis go just isn't going to happen, and even if he's traded, we'd still take a huge hit for it. If we keep him, we can reduce the cap hit by backloading the contract even more (sucks for down the road) which could make him count only ~4mill this year. plus portis is good, young, and not cancerous to the team in any way.

you might not like the size of his contract (and you're right that RB is one of the easiest positions to go cheap at), but the structure pretty much ensures he'll be here for quite a while (unless we toss a year or two down the drain to clearcut all our cap issues, but i don't see that happening).