Pac-man says Bengals are close to signing Jensen to a 3 year $39 million deal

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(03-06-2022, 02:43 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Do you see the “Cap Space” column?  That’s the effective cap hit of the rookies because the cap hit from their contracts displace the cap hit of other contracts. So you need roughly $3M out of that $64 for rookies.

So the $4M you had left over + $7M for injuries + $4M for displaced contracts leaves you with $15M to use however you want.

Then you allocate 3 M for draft and 11 M for injury replacement players. It still the same total amount of 14 m. I know the combination is 14 M. I didn't bother to look at how each amount breaks down nor do I care.  It doesn't change the total amount. You still have 4 M left and that's being generous. 

That's assuming you can sign Jensen for 12 M when he'll probably cost 13 M . That's assuming Corbett costs 9 M when it probably more like 10 M. That's assuming 5 M for depth players when in reality it could be 10 M. 

I'm being generous saying we'd have 4 M left over after we sign these players. It might cost even 7 M more than that. That would make it - 3M

Even using your erroneous numbers it would only increase the cap from 4M to 8M not to 15M . Draft cost 4M less than I expected. You simply add that to total. 4M + 4M is 8 M.

Why did you add allocate money for injury replacements back to total. It is subtracted because that is set aside to sign players off street because of injuries. It is not usable cap space therefore it is subtracted.

The injured player counts towards cap and so does replacement player. Do you get that? Is that hard to understand?

Giants had 340 games lost last year due to injury. That's 20 players missing full season equivalent. League min salary is 1.1 M. Lets assume replacement player makes a small amount more than league min. Lets say replacement player average salary is 1.5 M. Giants spent extra 30M on replacement players that was added to cap space. Do you get that?

Now My assumption of 11M set aside for replacements players before free agency is a conservative estimate. It probably is even more than that. And you subtract that from salary cap before free agency. Do you get that ? You subtract. Hard to understand ?