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Dolphins Free Agency - Thoughts On What Will Happen?

phinsforlife said:
in partial answer to my own question i just found this, if it is current, over the cap still has them at 20 or 29mm over the cap. i dont understand the difference between cap space and effective cap space. if that is the case, something has to happen over the next few days to swing alot of money. probably need to come up with $40-$50mm to go from $20mm over to $20mm-$30mm under to have enough money to plug some of the holes that have opened up? or do i have this wrong? barry jackson in his latest article mentioned chubb, ramsey and tyreek as the deals to go after. the good news is $16mm from xavien howard also frees up, but that is not until june i think. so it could be they cant free enough space up, dont do much, and then have to go for the leftovers post june with the xavien howard money plus potentially what frees up from the deal they are expected to give tua?

NFL Salary Cap Space | Over The Cap

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This boils down to...

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Jamesw said:
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@fishfanmiami is actually former Steelers' QB Mark Malone, which helps to explain his vast football knowledge. :chuckle:
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@Ray R is always right, just ask him. - lol
 
bane said:
You have a point nobody is irreplaceable
And yes Wilkins makes a play or splash play. But he doesn’t get get dumb penalty’s. Stop making up stuff. Yea he isn’t worth the money because he isn’t Chris jones. But dumb penalties ? Please provide examples.


And these threads . Damn I get you are so unhappy with team. But man I never saw these threads when we had Philbin or gase. Guess those were the good years.
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Are you telling me that you've never seen Wilkins get a dumb penalty? I find that very hard to believe. The other night I rewatched the Wildcard game, and Wilkins singlehandedly kept a KC drive alive with a penalty.

And BTW, here are the top penalized Dolphins during the 2023 regular season.

Figures include only enforced penalties during regular season games. Does not include declined or offsetting penalties.

PenaltiesPenalty Breakdown
PlayerPosTeamNumYdsFSHLDOFFICPIRPPFURUCOther
Connor Williams (C), MiaCMia6531500000000
Christian Wilkins (DT), MiaDTMia6500040020000
Austin Jackson (OG), MiaOGMia6453300000000
Xavien Howard (DB), MiaDBMia6380102200001
Liam Eichenberg (OT), MiaOTMia5451100000003
 
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phinsforlife said:
as for your point on the title, fair i guess. i used the term in this case because FA is the team making a lot of bets. at any rate i thought it was a pretty benign, non judgemental post that consolidates a lot of things that have been discussed independently into one area. but sadly, the thread probably is already ruined from some of the initial replies as anyone that starts reading them will be taken offtrack or just not want to deal with the nonsense that has nothing to do with discussing football.

at any rate, if it matters, i just changed the title, because i guess the other title wasnt great.

as for taking the over, you are a cheater pants, because those guys are already up to 100. I should have set it at 1,000, but I wanted a number close to something that is an over/under in an actual football game. at any rate, you guys might need an age disclaimer on this website, something that says "you must be 21 or over to enter" like all the pornos and dispensary websites have :)

in answer to some of my own questions, it just dawned on me there might be something goofy going on. i would think it would have been the teams goal to enter fa with some available cap space, and as of now, I believe they are still a fair bit over the cap. so much so, that i am not sure if they can be cap compliant by the start of FA? i wonder if they expected they would be able to re-structure some guys, and the players refused to cooperate? there was a story i saw about ramsey not wanting to restructure. i think tyreek hill is another one that they could restructure? at any rate, one would think they would have this stuff done by now, because it is impossible to plan for FA without knowing how much dry powder you have available. do i have this right? has this happened to other teams before where they go into FA in a non cap-compliant state and are therefore shutout of the action?

if this is the position they are in, i wonder if they do sign tua long term all of the sudden? that is one way to clear some space. i think he is $23mm for next year, so maybe with a new deal they can lower that number by $10mm? maybe they just say we are going to do it at some point, so might as well do it now, because they need the space? the offset to that is they lose negotiating leverage. the other problem is this alone still doesn't get them under the cap, they have to find more?

as far as my expectations, i was thinking that i wont be disappointed and potentially mildly surprised to the upside, since hopefully we know most of the bad news at this point re wilkins and some of the other guys like hunt. ergo my expectations have been appropriately lowered. was hoping we would be able to make some decent complimentary signings akin to jonnu smith for positions like guard/center or linebacker, plus resign AVG. but if somehow we go into FA with no money, and cant sign anyone to fill the holes that have been opened, if i have that right, then i will be pretty bummed and also pissed at grier.

hopefully i am wrong about where things stand with the cap, or if I am right, they resolve some things over the weekend with restructures (incl potential bonus re-allocations) so they have some dry powder available for the start of FA, and the money is used for some of the stuff i talked about
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Good post man
 
gofins60 said:
Are you telling me that you've never seen Wilkins get a dumb penalty? I find that very hard to believe. The other night I rewatched the Wildcard game, and Wilkins singlehandedly kept a KC drive alive with a penalty.

And BTW, here are the top penalized Dolphins during the 2023 regular season.

Figures include only enforced penalties during regular season games. Does not include declined or offsetting penalties.

PenaltiesPenalty Breakdown
PlayerPosTeamNumYdsFSHLDOFFICPIRPPFURUCOther
Connor Williams (C), MiaCMia6531500000000
Christian Wilkins (DT), MiaDTMia6500040020000
Austin Jackson (OG), MiaOGMia6453300000000
Xavien Howard (DB), MiaDBMia6380102200001
Liam Eichenberg (OT), MiaOTMia5451100000003
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Dude that call on Wilkins for roughing the passer? It was a horrible call.

Anyways the rest of team does get a lot of penalties. But Wilkins doesn’t
 
Travis34 said:
Good post man
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thank you. sadly it has been derailed. but anyway it is interesting, it seems to me they will have to find a way to come up with a lot of money in the next few days to be able to do anything in the initial phases of FA. so fingers crossed they figure it out, and then spend what they have wisely
 
phinsforlife said:
thank you. sadly it has been derailed. but anyway it is interesting, it seems to me they will have to find a way to come up with a lot of money in the next few days to be able to do anything in the initial phases of FA. so fingers crossed they figure it out, and then spend what they have wisely
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Yeah I’m quite concerned about it too… pretty much HAVE to restructure some big contracts and/or make a move with Tua to even be under the cap at all
 
phinsforlife said:
thank you. sadly it has been derailed. but anyway it is interesting, it seems to me they will have to find a way to come up with a lot of money in the next few days to be able to do anything in the initial phases of FA. so fingers crossed they figure it out, and then spend what they have wisely
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Its not that hard to figure out honestly . We will have to restructure 2 contracts and we will be cap compliant.
 
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