2017 Cap Space

[Luvnit2]

(06-02-2017, 12:33 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: So there's no looming extensions (other than Burfict) and they're keeping $19 million in space?

Personally, I'm not shocked, but I do know plenty of people have defended Mike for keeping $10-15+ million back for "extensions" even when the extensions don't happen (Whit/Zeitler/MLJ/Sanu/Joseph etc), or when there's no one to extend such as now.

At this point I don't even want to argue about it. It is what it is.

In the end, they spent all but 6.5 million in 2016 so not sure they are not spending enough. In fact, they are well ahead of teh cap spend requirements last time I checked while many other teams are not.

Also, Burfict could eat up a lot of cap room in 2017 if Bengals structured the deal more upfront than future. I think this team gets an A+ for cap management since 2011.