my 2 cents
my 2 cents
I had a long previous post titled State of the Organization. Today I was doing some additional research in hopes of restoring my sanity and hope that the world was not ending and the Dolphins had some hope the next two years. I am not posting this under Salary Cap because it relates to my earlier post…and not many go to the SC forum.
I stated that a decision on Daunte in my opinion had to be made before 07. OOPS. Although you cannot get a lot of details on the net regarding his contract and the NFLPA site only lists salaries, there is some information on his bonus available. The Harrington contract is out there for people to see. So....cutting DC outright costs us about 8.4 million against the cap due to accelerated bonus hit....we are in this for the long haul like it or not...cutting DC is not going to happen folks. His (C-Peps) cap hit as close as I can tell is 2.6 next year .....Harrington’s is for 07,,, 3.85 (1.1 signing bonus amortized, 1.0 roster bonus(spring 07), and 1.75 salary in 07) versus cutting Joey which leaves us with a dead cap hit of roughly 1.85 (1.1 amortized signing bonus and .75 of his salary for 07 is guaranteed) if we cut Joey before his roster bonus. All this tells me we will see BOTH of them back next year.
Some other information but do not hold it as gospel...but as far as I can tell right now we are about $460,000 under the cap. With the additional 7m in cap next year and with the bonus's and contracts such as C-Peps and Harrington's we would enter 07 with the roster as it is now (including players NOT ACTUALLY under contract for 07,but 06 salary as guide) in the neighborhood of 920,000 under the cap. Our actual situation is about 19m under the cap because many of these players are not under contract for 07.
So take your pick as to how much cap room you want and who you would like back ....but...cutting the following players; Jacox, Booker, Mare, Carter, Newman, Bennie Anderson, James and not resigning Bowens, Holiday, Traylor, Spragen, Tillman, Zgonina, and others we could be as much as 36m under the cap. Now obviously you are not going to cut and not resign ALL of these guys (and others)...and you want to resign the Welkers, Bergers, etc, and have your rookies under contract (which it looks will cost big given it will probably be a #1-5 pick). Personally I would take Carter and Mare back and spend the additional money elsewhere......so next years cap is not as hand tied as this years given you can part with at least some of the above mentioned.
The bottom line of all this is we can endure another year of carrying ZT and JT's salary cap hit (and be 1 year closer to getting it off the books) and be a FA player to the degree we want to change the roster outside of these two. I am sure everyone has there personal preferences but that is the situation as close as I can tell.
I stated that a decision on Daunte in my opinion had to be made before 07. OOPS. Although you cannot get a lot of details on the net regarding his contract and the NFLPA site only lists salaries, there is some information on his bonus available. The Harrington contract is out there for people to see. So....cutting DC outright costs us about 8.4 million against the cap due to accelerated bonus hit....we are in this for the long haul like it or not...cutting DC is not going to happen folks. His (C-Peps) cap hit as close as I can tell is 2.6 next year .....Harrington’s is for 07,,, 3.85 (1.1 signing bonus amortized, 1.0 roster bonus(spring 07), and 1.75 salary in 07) versus cutting Joey which leaves us with a dead cap hit of roughly 1.85 (1.1 amortized signing bonus and .75 of his salary for 07 is guaranteed) if we cut Joey before his roster bonus. All this tells me we will see BOTH of them back next year.
Some other information but do not hold it as gospel...but as far as I can tell right now we are about $460,000 under the cap. With the additional 7m in cap next year and with the bonus's and contracts such as C-Peps and Harrington's we would enter 07 with the roster as it is now (including players NOT ACTUALLY under contract for 07,but 06 salary as guide) in the neighborhood of 920,000 under the cap. Our actual situation is about 19m under the cap because many of these players are not under contract for 07.
So take your pick as to how much cap room you want and who you would like back ....but...cutting the following players; Jacox, Booker, Mare, Carter, Newman, Bennie Anderson, James and not resigning Bowens, Holiday, Traylor, Spragen, Tillman, Zgonina, and others we could be as much as 36m under the cap. Now obviously you are not going to cut and not resign ALL of these guys (and others)...and you want to resign the Welkers, Bergers, etc, and have your rookies under contract (which it looks will cost big given it will probably be a #1-5 pick). Personally I would take Carter and Mare back and spend the additional money elsewhere......so next years cap is not as hand tied as this years given you can part with at least some of the above mentioned.
The bottom line of all this is we can endure another year of carrying ZT and JT's salary cap hit (and be 1 year closer to getting it off the books) and be a FA player to the degree we want to change the roster outside of these two. I am sure everyone has there personal preferences but that is the situation as close as I can tell.
