Five teams with insane amounts of Cap space

[t96]

Broncos are screwed. They have many key free agents on D including Miller who's probably the only one they'll be able to keep and no QB next year. Probably going to have to try to keep Osweiler who's not that good and is demanding more than $15M/year and will get that from some crap team like the Browns if they let him go. They're lucky as hell that we played our absolute worst game against their absolutely best on the 1 day it mattered otherwise their Super Bowl slump would last for at least another decade.

[t96]

And if we choose to move on from CJ, which doesn't sound likely now, we'd have nearly $40M in cap space before tagging Josh. With Josh tagged we'd have about $26-27M in cap space, with pretty much all of our players coming back from next year with injured players coming back as well, and DG draft picks. Only losses that matter would be Allen and CJ and frankly, neither of them were very great at all. So that'd be a team that just went 17-2 and made it to the Super Bowl bringing back nearly all it's players, while adding an elite WR, CB that's 10x better than what we trotted out there in the playoffs, DG draft picks and $26M in cap space to possibly go for some mid-level free agents at key positions of need. KK will probably be extended this offseason so that uses some space, but we'd still have a lot left over. We're in pretty damn good shape, next season at least.

[Paa Langfart]

4 hours ago, PanthersGOATFan336 said:

Don't be an ass it's off season & it's football off season related

Wasnt being an ass just saying that it must be off season if we are talking about the jags.  Seems to me the ass is you.

[dldove77]

I'd like us to be able to make a run at Malik Jackson, but these teams with ridiculous amounts of salary cap space are going to outbid us and overpay him. 

As for WR, I saw something this morning about Sanu from Cincinnati almost assuredly hitting the market. He could be in our wheelhouse and would be a nice replacement for Cotchery. 

[Mr. Scot]

6 hours ago, KB_fan said:

75 - 87 million in Cap space for Jacksonville?  That just boggles the mind....  Jax & Oakland HAVE to spend money (to avoid being below the required minimum % of cap spending over the past 4 years).  Might be able to outbid teams on any good free agents (like Weddle?) that hit the open market....

Weddle has said he wants to play for a contender.

[rodeo]

Teams who don't spend their cap money are usually losers.

[Mr. Scot]

2 hours ago, Jangler said:

lol falcan't and taints dead money.

The only two teams in the league in double digits...

[KushMcDieselson]

1 hour ago, rodeo said:

Teams who don't spend their cap money are usually losers.

This.  I always assumed it is either because they have signed nothing but a majority of scrubs with negligible cap numbers combined with over paying free agents who only stick around to stink it up for a year before getting the ax.

I mean why else would Oakland be in the top 2 or 3 of available cap space like every year?

[TheSpecialJuan]

It's going to be fun watching all these teams overpay for players just to release them a year later. See Tampa Bay (Michael Johnson, Anthony Collins)

[PandaPancake]

2 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

The only two teams in the league in double digits...

Or eight

[PanthersGOATFan336]

5 hours ago, Paa Langfart said:

Wasnt being an ass just saying that it must be off season if we are talking about the jags.  Seems to me the ass is you.

But you like it

[Bama Panther]

The flip side of this "cap space" discussion is that those teams have all the cap space because they have, for the most part, failed miserably in drafting quality NFL players. John Clayton wrote a recent article about this. Essentially, because they have failed to draft quality players, they have not had to use cap space to retain those non-existent quality players.