Dolphins have the 2nd highest payroll

[zicofirol]

Even though there is a salary cap so teams are restricted from "buying"a championship, and even though miami owners (wayne and now ross) have been willing to spend the money to bring in coaches, I still hear here in the forum some people complaining that the reason the dolphins dont win is because the owners refuse to spend some money (ie. spend some money on a big name FA WR) ,lol...

anyway from the salguero's blog:

Dolphins salary documentation obtained by the Miami Herald on Tuesday shows the team may not be getting good return for the money it is spending on players in 2009.
According to those documents obtained from sources, the Dolphins spent $126,855,921 in total payroll in 2009, not including incentive bonuses. That is not only up from last year's $114,649,660, it is the second-highest total payroll in the NFL.
The New York Giants have the highest total payroll in the NFL in 2009 at $137,638,866. The Houston Texans, which defeated the Dolphins 27-20 on Sunday, settle in just behind the Dolphins with the third-highest total payroll at $122,573,860.


How wisely the Dolphins are spending their money is a question that shows up tangibly all over the field.
The team's highest-paid player in 2009 is right tackle Vernon Carey who is making $15 million, with $12 million of that coming in the form of a signing bonus he received for signing a new contact in the offseason. Miami's return on that investment has not paid great dividends as Carey has slumped in the season's second half and has played poorly in recent weeks.
Center Jake Grove, who came to the Dolphins with a reputation for getting hurt, was rewarded with a free agent contract that is paying him $14.2 million this season. That makes him the second-highest-paid player on the team. Grove played well early in the year but has missed five consecutive starts with a high ankle sprain and tibia injury.
The Dolphins invested a lot of money in the deep secondary in 2009 -- $16.6 million to be precise. That means Miami has the most expensive set of safeties in the NFL.
Yeremiah Bell, making $8.6 million this season in the form a $6 million signing bonus, a $2.55 million base salary and $50,000 in other bonuses, is the league's second-highest-paid safety behind Kerry Rhodes of the New York Jets. Rhodes is collecting $9.95 million this season.
Bell, Miami's fourth-highest-paid player in 2009, leads the Dolphins in tackles and has made a couple of tackles that prevented touchdowns.
But free safety Gibril Wilson, the NFL's third-highest-paid safety in 2009, has been a bust for Miami.

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[4THand10]

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[DolfanDuBbZ~]

Hope the CBA goes south and allows MIA to dump some of these salaries w/ no penalty.

 

[GeauxFinns3705]

I think this blows to hell and back the notion that the Trifecta is a Spend-thrift unit trying to build through the draft. Grove, Wilson, Carey...Wilford before them...All hugely expensive and not producing nearly what they should.

I think there should be a great deal of pressure on the FO to do a MUCH BETTER job in FA,Scouting, and coaching in the coming year, instead of all this back slapping, self congratulatory nonsense.

We didn't perform like the second highest paid team in the league. Not even close.

 

[arsenal]

again this article is dumb and irresponsible journalism... you cant look at the first year of a 5 year deal and say this team is paying too much...

you have to look at contracts as a whole... Bell and Wilson are not the highest paid safety tandem in the league, Arizona has that... they just both got their signing bonus this year because this was the first years of their deals... Bell is not the 2nd highest paid safety, he is the 15th highest paid safety...

we re-signed a lot of players and have turned over 40% of our roster, meaning most of our contracts are in their first year... which means we gave these players their signing bonus' which means it will seem like we paid a lot THIS year, but in actuality that will mean next year we'll be paying like nothing because those signing bonus' were already paid...

an example would be talking about buying a house, if person A buys a $300k house cash all in one year, and person B takes out a mortgage on that same $300k house... and you look at the FIRST year of these purchases you would see Person A spent $300k on that house and person B spent $18k on the house, but woul you say Person A is an idiot because they are spending too much??? of course not, you cant look at just the first year of a contract that spans multiple years... its idiocy and this shows how horrible of a journalist Armando is...

 

[GeauxFinns3705]

Arsenal, its also not as cut and dry as you claim. The money paid to Gerbil was real.
Same to Carey. Same to Grove. Last year, we paid alot to Wilford. So, you have a point that amortizing contracts distorts the figures, you cannot gloss over the big money paid to underachievers like Wilson, Crowder, and Carey.