Salary cap is expected to jump to at least $155M this year. Nearly $12M more than last year's ($143.28M).

[thefuzz]

3 minutes ago, thebigcat said:

The extra $14 mil in cap means Charles Johnson will likely not restructure nor be released

I don't think that he was going to be getting a "restructure" e-mail.

[thefuzz]

15 minutes ago, panther4life said:

What about Norman? Do you want him long term, franchise 1 year rental?

DG thinks that DL is more important than DB's.  I'm all or tagging him, and spending that money on OL and DL, either by signing or extending guys.

[joemac]

Damn we have a great cap situation. They are gonna be able to lock up everyone who is important and then some. We have got to have one of the best overall setups in the league...things look to only get brighter from here.

[CWORS]

Time to lock up KK...

[tiger7_88]

22 minutes ago, Skydivingcows said:

You just raised the cap by 14 million and you want me to take a paycut even though we have enough to sign everyone here?  That might be a hard sale.

He'll end up making less money by being cut.

At least from us.

Considering he's been playing like he's all used up, the ideal situation would be to cut him for cap relief and then to see the Falcan'ts sign him for $10+ million.  :P

[KillerKat]

28 minutes ago, Skydivingcows said:

You just raised the cap by 14 million and you want me to take a paycut even though we have enough to sign everyone here?  That might be a hard sale.

"Ok then you're cut".

Easy solution here.

[Zaximus]

4 minutes ago, KillerKat said:

"Ok then you're cut".

Easy solution here.

Yeah I really don't think CJ has much leverage.  We were great without him.  Ealy is best at his current side.  He would just stunt Ealy's growth.  

[the butch]

I agree that more cap for the league overall will average out what we can actually do with the money.  But the fact that we get this much room with new contracts coming up, helps us to be in on the low-end of that average.  That's what will help this team the most.  We can leverage the new cap space more effectively if we can get some contracts out of the way and dead money off of the books at the outset.

[SurvivalSloth]

Gettle-fugin-magic

[SOJA]

CJ was always due to get cut this year or take a pay cut - the cap going up has nothing to do with that 

[Mr. Scot]

There's rather major argument against the theory that it "all evens out".

Basically, some guys know what they're doing. Some guys don't.

Some GM's will blow huge stacks of cash within the first 24 hours of free agency. These same guys will likely be back to do the same thing next year and everybody associated will sit and wonder why their teams aren't winning.

Others will shop smart and spend wisely.

And that makes all the difference.

[Jase]

Of all the teams this helps, it helps teams in cap hell the most.

ie the saints

 

sucks

[rayzor]

8 minutes ago, Jase said:

Of all the teams this helps, it helps teams in cap hell the most.

ie the saints

 

sucks

they'll screw it up.

[ctrcat]

13 minutes ago, Jase said:

Of all the teams this helps, it helps teams in cap hell the most.

ie the saints

 

sucks

That joke of a franchise?