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Originally Posted by Yippee ki-yay
Some of those stats make you really wonder what the GM's of those teams are doing.
We're really seeing the Saints' model of "hand out a bad free-agent contract, eat a bunch of dead cap room, restructure contracts to kick the can down the road" really start to pay off*
(* - for certain definitions of "pay off")
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Originally Posted by JMurder3
Hmm...Falcons might have some actual issues...they're almost $7m over, & included in the people in the last year of their deals is:
DT Poe
DE Clayborn
K Bryant
WR Gabriel
Matt Ryan has basically 1/$21.65m after this year on his deal, so I'm guessing maybe they extend him at a lower 1st year hit & save some $ there.
Julio has a cap hit of $13.9m, but I don't really see them messing with him much. Matthews has the $12.5m 5th year option...I don't think they can do much with that. Don't really see much to work with on Mack/Trufant/Alford...would only save $3.2m by cutting Sanu...
I don't know. I just don't see where they're going to free the $ up from to not get worse in 2018? I'm not a professional, though, so I assume they see a path.
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Originally Posted by wheatrich
Levitre, Matthews are the two obvious ones you missed on that list. Levitre only has a 1.5 dead, Matthews has 0 dead and 12.5M coming.
The NFL salary cap is literally setup for the biggest idiots to have a hard time ****ing it bad enough to have anything other than minor issues.
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Originally Posted by JMurder3
I mentioned Matthews, but they can't really cut him can they? I mean they could, but it would hurt. Levitre would clear $7m, which would help, but I think he's been quite good, hasn't he? Graded 13th among LGs last year.
I don't think it would be hard to convert some of Ryan or Jones' salaries into bonuses that can be kicked down the road to 2018 or even later in Jones' case.
I thought Matthews' salary was guaranteed as it's a fifth-year option on a first-round rookie contract.