He's a candidate to be cut because his dead money hit (based on prorated signing bonus) is $9M. I'm seeing now that maybe he's also guaranteed $1.5M in 2015.

If you keep him, he'll cost you $3M against the cap on the signing bonus, $10M against the cap for his base salary, $250K against the cap for a workout bonus.

CAP CONSEQUENCE:
Keep him = $13.25M (plus incentives)
Cut him = $10.5M

He'll either be cut, or restructured at that point.

Probably restructured.

It always drives me crazy when people talk about players "taking one for the team" by restructuring. No. Restructuring happens because it's a win-win. The team converts cap-heavy parts of the contract into cap-friendly by spreading it out over several years, while the player benefits because it's harder to cut him.

Restructuring doesn't cost the player any money, so yeah, that seems like a dumb thing to say.

Adding Maclin, Chris Clemons, Ebron/whicheverTEfallstoyou, and Donald Butler would probably send me into a frenzy.

eh... 2-14 to 11-5/playoffs in a strong division. Not so worried about the $$. Players get overpaid all the time in the NFL. Dorsey did overpay for some, but he got players here and that's what this team needed.

Bowe's contract is bad, but there was no way to predict that he'd play that poorly after getting paid. It seems pretty obvious by his comments after the season that the FO talked to him about his performance. He said he's going to lose weight and work on his speed to better fit into this offense. Whether or not he follows thru is anyone's guess.

me too

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Right. There's usually no loss or gain of money for either side. They're just moving numbers around.

I'm not a big fan of this approach. How many times has this model actually worked? The best approach is to build from within and focus most of your cap dollars on keeping good players, instead of overpaying for other people's scraps.

I'm more of a use FA to fill holes, opening up the draft to take BPA, type guy.

Dorsey and Reid have both stated that they believe in building thru the draft. I think they did what they needed to do in order to eliminate the stench left by the last regime. Now that they have a year under their belt, I think you'll see more of an emphasis on the draft. (On a lesser note, they also had to give up picks to get the QB they wanted, so FA became even more of a necessity. Getting rid of Cassel may have been one of the best personnel moves in franchise...er...NFL history.)

I'm the most bothered by the Robinson deal... I don't know why, really. He's terrible and it didn't break the bank, but damn did he not do shit this year, or what? He got money for nothing. Bowe is overpaid, yeah... But looking at previous years, he fit the bill for a decent number one...

He did what he had to do. We had nothing behind Smith and at the time....we had no legitimate NB.

Agree. They took a chance on Robinson and it didn't work out. That said, they got a surprise in Cooper, who hopefully makes the sophomore jump next year. Look at what Dorsey/Reid saw at CB when they came in:

1. Stanford Routt (currently unemployed)
2. Javier Arenas (backup / Special Teams AZ)
3. Jacques Reeves (currently unemployed)
4. Neiko Thorpe (currently unemployed)

That's F'd up.

Yup. Fully agree.