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Besides the Raiders (who are absolutely handcuffed by dead money) the Dolphins have spent the least amount on offense, the average is about $54M and we're at $39M. The next lowest is the Bills at $44M. So why are we sitting on $22M in cap space? Besides the Dolphins the only teams with more than $20M in cap space are the Eagles, the Jaguars, the Bills and the Browns. All pretty crap teams.

Is there a benefit to having so much cap space the week before the season starts that I'm not seeing? Looking back, why did we let Fasano go? We could have afforded him, he was the perfect compliment to Keller and he would have provided us good depth at TE. I'm sure there must have been other guys we could have spent $5M or $10M on that could have helped too.

In my experience being an outlier, ie spending the least amount on offense, is generally not a good thing. Occasionally its a sign of brilliance and outside the box thinking but I don't think thats the case here...

So, what am I missing?

Got my numbers from here, apologies if they aren't accurate.
 
My first thought is that our starting QB is cheap which isn't a luxury most good teams have. Tannehill will have a big price tag on his second contract. Really, most of the offense is made up of young players that don't have big contracts yet. If all goes well, this will be a much more expensive group soon enough.
 
We will be able to roll a big chunk of that over to next year I believe. Which will put us in great salary cap situation next offseason as well when Wallace's cap # jumps up along with a few others. Not to mention we will have to resign some key guys like big paul.
 
I think rent nailed it--qb and no 1rb are less than a mil I think. Unheard of, for good teams...we will see
 
MiamiDolphin618 said:
We will be able to roll a big chunk of that over to next year I believe. Which will put us in great salary cap situation next offseason as well when Wallace's cap # jumps up along with a few others. Not to mention we will have to resign some key guys like big paul.
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All of those other teams with $20M+ in cap space are going through regime changes so it makes more sense for them to want to carry money over. I've alos seen estimates that we could have as much as $55M in cap space for next offseason so I think we were fine either way.

Another thing to keep in mind is we probably have one of the most expensive backup QBs in the league so what we spent on offense looks even worse relative to the rest of the league.
 
Under the new CBA we can roll over the unspent amount of this years cap. Having space is a good thing, having better players would be a better thing, but we have what we have.
 
Doubt Keller comes here if we resigned Fasano.

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at some point we have to spend some of it due to new cba
 
I think another thing you need to consider is that Wallace, Hartline (and Gibson?) have artificially low cap numbers this year. Their cap hit's jump A LOT next year.
 
Our management of the salary cap is actually one of the practices that is better managed. Dawn Aponte seems to have done a very good job of running this. We will have some big amounts in the not too distant future, so do not fret that we are not spending enough.
As for Fasano, (alas poor Yorrick - I knew him well). We significantly upgraded the position when we got Dustin Keller. All was going well until the Texans player smashed his knee in the game the other week. The coaching staff were looking for a lot more from the TE than Fasano could give. However, in hindsight, maybe we should have kept him as the backup.
 
The salary cap should always be a multi-year consideration. As soon as you start thinking about only this year when it comes to the salary cap, you'll be doomed in managing it well in future years.
 
we wont be going hog wild in FA next year. no need to. resigning starks, grimes, clabo?, soliai become priority. odrick due next year or two....jerry and incog.....still will have a lot of work to do.

RT has big year, agent may want to sit out
 
As others have said we will roll a very large % of the $20 million or so to next year. We have about 6-7 vets to either re-sign or replace with free agents, and with about $105 million in salary already allocated for 2014. If we didn't rollover a very large amount of space from this year we would only have about $23 million to fill those 6-7 holes and that wouldn't be enough.
 
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