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I am assuming Mike T is running contract negotiations since Dawn Aponte left.

Did anyone realize the cap hit for Reshad Jones is $17.2M in 2019? For a 31 year old SS with a bum shoulder....He was extended to a mega-contract with a year left on his old contract. In the following years he will be making 15.6 and 14.5M when he is 33 years old? I'm not confident his shoulder will hold up that long. I'm not saying he didn't deserve a new deal but I question the timing and structure of the contract.

Then they extend McDonald (after seeing him ONLY in training camp) who will count $6M against the cap next year. Again I question the timing when they could have waited and seen how bad he was over the second half of 2017. This guy plays well one week and then sucks for two weeks.

$23M next year on two safeties and we have Minkah (our best overall player) out there fighting for snaps. Why they decided to take snaps from Jones this week and not McDonald is a mystery to me.

Minkah is making 3M and 3.7M this and next year on his rookie deal. Now were up to 26.7M next year for those 3 players.

We all know about the larger than deserved contract given to Andre Branch. At least we can get rid of his deal in 2019. He is scheduled to make 9M but we can get out for a 2M dread cap hit. And we still need several DE's next year. Robert Quinn counts 12.9M next year and he is not playing at that level. He can be released with no cap ramifications.

We accounted 9.1M for Suh on this years cap (and $13.1M next year). 2.75M for Lawrence Timmons and 2M for Pouncey. That's a total of 17.5M in dead money this year with $24.7M dedicated to IR players.

We are paying Ryan Tannehill 26.6M next year due to the restructure and it would cost us 13.4M to release him.

Anyone think the front office is doing well on contract negotiations?

Next year we will be in the market for a QB1 or 2, DT, DEx2, LB, CB, OG, possibly a RT and hopefully a new center. Nine key players need to be added next year and that doesn't account for improving the depth.
 
They need to hire someone that just handles #s and $$$. Tannenbaum screwed this team for years to come with those outrageous contracts, he’s shown in the past he most certainly doesn’t have business savvy.
 
I was one of the few that didnt love the monster Reshad contract. Not bc he isn't a great player, I just don't think a SS position is worth that much. The season he went out injured we won like 6 games in a row without him, just like we won last week without him. I'm NOT saying he doesnt make our team much better bc he does, especially against the run. Just for me I wouldn't justify that contract unless maybe he was elite against the pass as well, which he clearly is not.
 
mrbunglez said:
They need to hire someone that just handles #s and $$$. Tannenbaum screwed this team for years to come, he’s shown in the past he most certainly doesn’t have business savvy.
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and we all saw it coming when he was hired. He seems to have reigned in it a little bit the past couple seasons, but it's basically like we had to start over again trying to get these bad contracts off the books.
 
Those situations are ridiculous. Honestly the best hope for our long term future is to just write off 2019, cut or trade everyone last one of the senior vets earning more than they should. Give the coaching staff a free pass for the year. Selling it to the fan base is another story, but those of us with sense would buy into a development year.
 
We have no cap office, it’s just a bunch of big ole #s that Mike likes to make bigger for no reason.
 
What's the cap for cutting Jones?

After watching defense with McDonald, I'm past Jones.
 
Aponte caught a lot of crap for supposedly playing Philbin against Ireland and causing some issues in the front office, but she was on point with her structuring of contracts. I'd gladly take someone who causes disharmony in the office over someone who passes out garbage contracts like candy on Halloween.
 
Remember Mike gave an extension to Mark Sanchez while he had 2 years left on his rookie contract

When he left the Jets they had NO CAP SPACE and a DOZEN HOLES.
sounds awful familiar
 
miamiron said:
Remember Mike gave an extension to Mark Sanchez while he had 2 years left on his rookie contract

When he left the Jets they had NO CAP SPACE and a DOZEN HOLES.
sounds awful familiar
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And this is the guy that Ross wants running his team (or should I say ruining his team).
 
Tannenbaum likes resigning mediocrity with big inflated #s. This team is going to end up Jets part deux.
 
Eesti said:
Did anyone realize the cap hit for Reshad Jones is $17.2M in 2019? For a 31 year old SS with a bum shoulder....He was extended to a mega-contract with a year left on his old contract.
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YES, some of us were bitching about it non stop when it happened two years ago... then again when they restructured it last year... but everyone was too busy sucking his dick.
 
Yesterday I saw a tweet on bleacher report saying, there may be language in Jones' contract that may allow Miami to remove the full guarentee on Jones' contract for 2019. If this is the case as it was with Timmons, Miami may have been gifted an out of the remainer of Jones' insane contract.
 
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