Reading over the collusion decision that was uncovered by @PabloTorre and its a real interesting ruling.

Its very clear that the NFL league office went out of their way to basically say "teams are screwing up" with the contracts and you guys need to fix it. It reminds me a lot of the old rookie contracts where things get out of control in large part due to a few teams forcing other teams to change their models. The NFL collectively bargained to take all of the power out of the hands of their own contract guys

So this release is pretty much unprecedented from a salary cap standpoint so its hard to say exactly what the charge is for the #Patriots for Brown. but Ill offer my opinions in this thread and then try to summarize in a post on OTC. I do feel pretty confident that they will have to hold a cap charge of $4.75M this year for his signing bonus. He will also be paid for last weeks game and this weeks game.