Yeah Daryl's signing bonus was around 11.5 however I could have swore that this last year was the 2nd, not the 1st, year of his contract life. That makes a big difference. I'm pretty sure I'm right on that one because I probably would have flipped out if the Phins gave DG an 11.5 million dollar signing bonus after only playing 10 games or something like that in 2000 cuz of all the recurring back problems.
And when he restructured earlier I'm pretty sure he just plain ended up taking something of a pay cut, not really converting any of his base salary into signing bonus.
Even if its only 500k savings, thats a whole lot of difference from actually taking a cap HIT for cutting the guy. 500k would allow us to sign Evans and with some creative structuring might even allow us to sign Adams. You can't think in terms of the player costing 500k because thats not the case. The cap number is a water gauge of our current tank of players and right now its X below the cap, but only the top 53 cap numbers count in the measure. If we cut DG then we save that 500k but it also shifts a contract that had not previously been counted in the top 53, into that top 53. Then when we sign someone like Evans, you only add to the salary cap figure the amount that Evans' contract is bigger than the contract that he is displacing.
In other words, pretty much we have enough money to sign anyone we want at the veterans minimum contract level. In fact, we could probably sign about 4 or 5 more guys at the veterans 750k level if we wanted to. With what we're theorizing we save by cutting DG (about 500k), we could sign Evans to a contract that has a 1st year salary cap figure of about 900k...which isn't all that bad.
Adams a $5 million SB? Where you been for the last month. Thats what he was asking for in the BEGINNING of his free agency venture. He's far far away from that figure now....and still unsigned. If he was such a good deal, he'd already be signed.