On the positive side, the Redskins' current payroll is $75.7 million, meaning Snyder would have to spend close to $45 million in cash to meet the potential minimum floor requirements. Imagine a system that forces Snyder to spend.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/s ... id=6699864 So if We do have $45 million to spend on salaries. How many free agents can we reasonably sign?
1nik am I understanding this cap thing right? Not sure about how the $19 million in cap space applies ($10 plus the $9 milliion from Haynesworth and McNabb assuming that they will no longer with the team.
2010 salaries
ROUNDED to nearest $1 million (See link below for actual)
Cullen Jenkins - DE - Packers - $3 million
Aubrayo Franklin NT - 49ers - $7 million
Nnamdi Asomugha -CB - Raiders - $14 million avg per year
Ryan Harris T - Denver - $1 million - With Brown signing elsewhere
Davin Joseph - G - Bucs - $2 million
Total - $27 MaybesJonathan Joseph CB -Bengals - $9 a year Alt to Asomugha
Stephen Tulloch - LB - Titans - $3 million - Alt to Rocky
Paul Posluszny - ILB - Bills - $1 million - Another Alt to Rocky
Redskin players ROUNDED figures
Santana Moss - $4 million
Rocky - $2 million
Rex - Guessing high at $2 million
Total - $8Redskin MaybesJamal Brown - $3 million
Reed - $2 million
Kedric - $2 million
Carlos - $2 million
This list has us
starting at $35 with
$10 million left to bid higher. It is expected that Asomugha will command $19 million, so that leaves $ 5 million to bid on the others. This is simple Math but I an realizing that it isn't that simple. I need to figure in
rookie salaries which I think that I heard an estimate of $5 million. I also need to figure in
bonuses and how the contract is structured for a cap hit total.
Using OJ Atogwe's contract gives some insight to how it might look for older FA, say 30 ish (OJ is 30).
Is this an example of how our FO will handle contracts of older Free Agents, 30ish?
OJ made $2 million in 2010 for 2011, his contract called for $4 million (rounded from $3.5 mil).
From us he gets a $900,000 base salary and a $6.5 million dollar signing bonus for a 2011 cap hit of $7.4 million. Looking at OJ's contract, Asomugha's salary and signing bonus would have to huge and even though he is 30 like OJ, his bonus would likely have to be spread out putting us back in the old way of doing business. I say pass on Asommugha and look at Joseph or an even more less expensive guy than Joseph - someone who can cover and catch the ball.
OJ Atogwe's contract.
The key provision is a fully guaranteed $6.5 million roster bonus to be paid on the fifth day of the 2011 league year along with a base salary of $900,000, also guaranteed. As currently structured that will mean that $7.4 million of the guaranteed money will go against the 2011 salary cap.
This is a radical departure from the way the team has done business in the past. Instead of taking a large cap hit early in most deals, the Redskins would backload money later in contracts to lessen the immediate salary cap hit of big-money deals. That would help create more cap room in the short term but it would create issues down the road when players were in declining productivity but still carrying large salary cap figures thanks to the structure of the deals.
http://realredskins.com/2011/03/atogwe- ... for-skins/
http://www.lockerpulse.com/News/Bengals ... -S1381516/
http://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/ ... rs/5417728
http://www.sportscity.com/NFL-Salaries/
