How much $ we have to play with now?

[skipp2myloo13]

this was a great day, locking up key players. how much do we have to work with. can we still be players for jason brown? if so how much would be left? can we sign Coles, a decent corner and some ST guys?

 

[SpaceMountain16]

I've been reading around 15 million before the re-signing of Bell, which was a 4 year 20 million dollar deal so you'd figure that amounts to about 5 million a season. So what does that leave, 10 million?

 

[MDFINFAN]

this was a great day, locking up key players. how much do we have to work with. can we still be players for jason brown? if so how much would be left? can we sign Coles, a decent corner and some ST guys?

until we get a breakdown of all the contracts we can only guess, but I'm thinking we have about 10-13 mil left..

 

[skipp2myloo13]

I've been reading around 15 million before the re-signing of Bell, which was a 4 year 20 million dollar deal so you'd figure that amounts to about 5 million a season. So what does that leave, 10 million?

Would we be able to snag both Brown and Coles?

 

[burger13]

this was a great day, locking up key players. how much do we have to work with. can we still be players for jason brown? if so how much would be left? can we sign Coles, a decent corner and some ST guys?

impossible to know until we see how the last 3 contracts are structured.

But it's common sense that they would have left themselves at least enough money to make their best offer to any other FA targets.

 

[TonySporanoTuna]

Bell's deal isn't $5 million this year. Since it's $10 million guaranteed that means it's probably a bonus. So that gets prorated over the life of the deal which is four years. So the bonus is $2.5 million against the cap and I would imagine his deal is backloaded so he counts probably for $2 million in base salary. This means he is $4.5 million.

All of that is a guess until we get the details.

 

[burger13]

I've been reading around 15 million before the re-signing of Bell, which was a 4 year 20 million dollar deal so you'd figure that amounts to about 5 million a season. So what does that leave, 10 million?

averaging out the contract is extremely inaccurate. Carey's contract avg out to 7 million, but the cap cahrge for this year is only 5 million.

 

[RickyWilliams]

Wonder if Vonnie is let go and we use a draft pick for additional rotation in the upcoming draft at a much cheaper contract. I'm sure there will be some suprising cuts in the near future. Ricky maybe, but his work ethic may make him a keeper. Does anyone know of a link with our current players and their 2009 salary cap figure?

 

[SpaceMountain16]

Bell's deal isn't $5 million this year. Since it's $10 million guaranteed that means it's probably a bonus. So that gets prorated over the life of the deal which is four years. So the bonus is $2.5 million against the cap and I would imagine his deal is backloaded so he counts probably for $2 million in base salary. This means he is $4.5 million.

All of that is a guess until we get the details.

Yeah but i read he was projected to get 5-6 million per season before he signed, so i'm just assuming thats how his deal breaks down. If it's less than that, great, the more cap room we have the better.

 

[Rocket2981]

Wonder if Vonnie is let go and we use a draft pick for additional rotation in the upcoming draft at a much cheaper contract. I'm sure there will be some suprising cuts in the near future. Ricky maybe, but his work ethic may make him a keeper. Does anyone know of a link with our current players and their 2009 salary cap figure?

I don't think we let Vonnie go, it would only give us something like 1 million of cap space with the dead money. We'll keep him 1 more year...

 

[MD]

I suspect that with the signings today, the Dolphins won't get Jason Brown. Minnesota appears to be interested and if they really want him, the Fins won't be able to get close enough to sign him. Of course that is a wild *** guess because none of us know if Brown wants to really play here, who may get cut to save money, or what the Trifecta's plan is. God I love the NFL!!!!

 

[burger13]

Bell's deal isn't $5 million this year. Since it's $10 million guaranteed that means it's probably a bonus. So that gets prorated over the life of the deal which is four years. So the bonus is $2.5 million against the cap and I would imagine his deal is backloaded so he counts probably for $2 million in base salary. This means he is $4.5 million.

All of that is a guess until we get the details.

here's my guess:

of the 10 million guaranteed, 8 million is a signing bonus and gets prorated over the 4 years (2 million per year), the remaining 2 million of 'guaranteed' money is the sum of a base salary, roster bonus and/or workout bonus (all of which counts against the 09 cap). That would make his 1st year cap number 4 million.

 

[feelthepain]

I think Vonnie is gonnie.

 

[X-Pacolypse]

I think Miami is going make a bigger run at Coles. Miami will throw out their best offer for Brown, but if Brown balks they'll just draft a C.

 

[Elliott 1]

I was really hoping to have Vonnie 1 more year but it isn't looking good.

With Merling,Starks,Wright and Dotson I don't know how they keep him with Coles and Brown being handed to us. At least it seems that way.