3 hours ago
(9 hours ago)Luvnit2 Wrote: I agree, we do need to shed cap dollars to free up both cash and cap space. But I don't agree to draft rookies to plug and play in 2025.
Here are my cuts:
Sheldon Rankins
$7,450,000 $2,000,000 $0 $1,500,000 $1,500,000 $50,000 $0 $0 $11,500,000
$2,000,000 - Dead Money
$9,500,000 - Cap and Cash savings 2025
Sam Hubbard
$9,000,000 $2,000,000 $0 $0 $500,000 $100,000 $0 $0 $11,600,000
$2,000,000 - Dead Money
$9,600,000 - Cap and Cash savings 2025
Alex Cappa
$7,000,000 $2,250,000 $0 $0 $500,000 $500,000 $0 $0 $10,250,000
$2,250,000 - Dead Money
$8,000,000 - Cap and Cash savings 2025[
Zack Moss
$3,075,000 $1,500,000 $0 $0 $300,000 $100,000 $0 $0 $4,975,000
$1,500,000 - Dead Money
$3,475,000 - Cap and Cash savings 2025
Stone is also a possibly, but only if we have great FA safety in our sites or he goes back to playing poorly
This would add almost $30.5 million cap dollars for 2025.
If Stone is cut, and additional 6.5 million to partially pay for a stud safety in FA if one is available.
Fans hate on Volson, but he is paid low back up money, a little over 1.2 mullion, sign a guard and make him a backup.
We would need plug and play vets at WR2 (Higgins), Both guards (FA), DT (2) as Hill is a FA DE, RB and CB. We are too good on offense to not shore up our defense with FA vets.
Then, use the draft for high potential starters by end of 2025 or in 2026.
Those cuts + a Burrow restructure (+$19 mil) would put us over $110 mil in space.
Minus:
Chase extension = +9 mil
Higgins cap hit extension +22 mil
BJ Hill signing = $10 mil
Stud FA guard = $20 mil
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That's $61 mil. $110-$61 = $49 mil.
That $49 has to vover the PS ($4 mil) and our draft pool (say around $7 mil). So down to $38. And Mikey will never spend right to the cap. So say $30.
42 guys signed - 4 cuts + 6 picks + Tee, BJ, and stud guard. That's 47. 49 once Adomitis & Rehkow (or similar $1 mil men) are signed..
So say $28 mil for FA's who are above vet min level pay. Vet min guys like Ford & Hudson don't count, they guy they are displacing makes justcas much.
Quibble with my estimates all you want. They ain't THAT far off. I don't think I made a math error. Only Hilton, Gesicki, ADG, and maybe Trent Brown will command much in FA of our guys. Maybe Herbert or Ossai?
We could cut a bit more (Stone & Pratt) as well.
Some of the strong FA guards are coming off injury. Daniels tore his Achilles. Fries broke his tibia, badly. Zeitler is 34. I doubt those are $20 mil guys. Smith & Jenkins are healthy.
My point is, I don't friggin' buy, for a second, this idiotic idea that we cannot afford Tee & Chase. We can, and buy big in FA at the same time.