fredp45 wrote:I didn't hear what LeVar said on Comcast...did he say, he could give Smoot 6 mil once he convinces the Skins that they "ripped" him off...
In this day of caponomics, you can NOT pay everyone top dollar...you must have some players on the roster that are making a lot less money. We already overpaid for Springs, we overpaid for LeVar (less the 6 mil, of course), we gave Washington and Griffin a bunch of money, Wynn is due to make 4 mil in 05, Bowen and Taylor are making some cash, Barrow got a nice deal. If we don't take some fiscal action now, our 2006 roster will be a who's who ...as in, who are these guys? I don't believe we should pay Smoot a 10 mil bonus. Let our current guys do the job, draft another young CB if necessary. I don't want to overpay Pierce either. Our 2006 cap is very very ugly. We can't wait until after 2005 to fix it either - we must start now.
We need to change out 10-12 guys this year - plus a couple others if we trade away (Gardner) or release some guys (maybe McCants, Rock, Wynn, etc...) Sign 2-3 "cheaper" FA's like Walt Harris, and hang onto our draft picks...stay out the bidding for big name-big contract guys. We can't afford them and I don't believe that we need them either. Let's try the NE way - not the SF way. Look at them now.
Our 2006 Salary cap will be perfectly fine. All you people who are into the doom and gloom that the media and uninformed like to spread need to do some homework and quit believing everything your told by the media. We currently have a cap value of 108 million for 2006. It will obviously not stay that way. The cap for 2006 will be at or around 90 nillion. A couple examples of how we will cut our cap hit by restructuring...
Chris Samuels has a 2006 cap hit of 11.3 million. His bonus hit is 3 million. If we cut him, that's 3 mil in dead money, but that trims 8 million off our 108 million. Say he restructures. He signs a 7 year deal with a 10 mil bonus worth 50 mil. It would be backloaded of course meaning the first year or two he makes the minimum for salary. His 2006 cap hit would be about 4.9 million. Vet minimum of 455k plus previous 3 mil of the bonus and then 1.5 mil of the new bonus. That one deal saves us 6.8 million off of the 108 million total cap. His 2007 cap hit would be even cheaper because his old bonus would be gone...
Renaldo Wynn has a 600k hit for his bonus but makes 4.5 mil the next two seasons. He will restructure or be cut. Accelerated cap hit is 1.2 mil. That would still save us 3.3 million.
We will also have the ability to cut after June 1st which would make most of the hit taken in 2006 minimal while taking the brunt of the hit in 2007 on those players cut. The current 2007 cap for us is 75 million. And at this time, there is no salary cap after 2006. So who knows what will happen by that time. I'm sure the NFL will keep the salary cap as is, but by 2007 it will likely be around the 95 million area...
If Snyder has proven anything in his time here, it's that he knows how to negotiate the cap better than anyone else in the league...
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