Countertrey wrote:Topic, please!
UK Skins Fan wrote:Not as bad as we might have feared?
..., but it does look as though the sky is NOT about to fall in. The work done by the front office (yes Jock, the front office!) to reduce dead cap money has been huge. The drafting of so many players in the last two drafts in particular has left us well placed (assuming that a decent number of this year's picks make the roster of course) We've been able to achieve as much as anybody in the offseason so far, and there are options available if we need to create more space.
They currently have about $4M in space with lots of changes coming based on who makes the team and who doesn't. The impact may have been harder on the front office this year than it will be next year considering they had less than 24 hours notice that they were losing $18M, but carried over $13M plus.
In the end they had $117.69M going in, they have 48 players signed to FA contracts, re-signed, drafted and signed (or will be signed) or signed as UDFA since they were stripped of the $18M., and up until this time next year to deal with next year's lower space.
Currently the 2013 is at $112,900,000 with no dead cap or carry over. If there is truly a flat cap then the Skin's number will be about what theHogster said $102.6M., meaning the Skins would be over by about $10.5M if this were Mid March 2013.
A lot will change by then...
There are 19 guys on that list that will take up more than $9M in cap space next year but none had played a down in the NFL nor did any team spend a draft pick on them. Most of them won't make the roster this season and the max in dead cap will be $18K or a reduction in the 2013 cap numbe by at least $8.5M.
Releasing Moss, Cooley and Hall will add $4.76M in dead cap for 2013 (almost twice the 2012 dead cap so far) but net $15.6M in cap space.
If replacement for Brown and Chester are on the roster going into the off season both could be released for a net savings of $900K so if they aren't playing the team won't be stuck with them.
Wilson, Williams, and Cofield would make good restructure candidates...
With the three cuts mentioned and the 19 players not likely to be on the roster next year the team is looking at being $9.6 under minus any new moves that would effect next year.
As of now they'll have three times the space they had this March
It's cap SPACE, so it's all in how you look at it
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