A 7th, huh?
Is that what top 5-10 at a position fetches in this day and age?
I can name way more safeties than 10 that are better than Jones. Dude couldn’t cover me.
Better yet, I’ll give you an asset on top of him to get him outta here.
I wouldn't cut Spence or Kilgore. Don't think I'd re-sign James either. Other than that, go younger and save the money. The plan is not to win this upcoming year, no point keeping most of those guys in that case.Currently, over the cap has Miami at $17M cap space. With an aggressive dumping of expensive contract, that number can be close to $90M.
Tannehill - cut saves $13M with $13M dead.
Jones - trade saves $5M and $12M dead. I think he could fetch a 3rd round pick. Packers, Bucs, Raiders and Panthers could use safeties.
Quinn - cut saves $12.9M with 0 dead.
Parker - rescinded option saves $9.4M
Branch - cut saves $7M and $2M dead
Sitton - cut saves 5M and 2M dead
Kiko - cut saves 4.7M with 3.5M dead
Amendola - cut saves 6M
Akeem Spence - cut saves 2.5M
Kilgore - cut saves 2.4M
Larsen - cut saves 1.875M
With those moves, Miami will be at an estimated 87.81M in cap space.
Re-sign James, Swanson, Davis, Bolden, and Gray.
Extend Xavien Howard and Laremy Tunsil. Two young players who will be important to keep around.
For me, it's not just freeing up the cap space. It's also freeing up space for younger players to play and develop.If we're not going to be signing impact FA, not sure why freeing up cap space matters aside from whatever is allowed to carry over from one season to the next.
.well, you need older veterans around to groom the younger guys. Frank Gore needs to stay to groom Ballage. Jones is a huge cap hit, so maybe he should stay and groom Fitzpatrick. Wake is cheap, maybe he should stay too to groom some DE's.
Believe Kiko 8.2. Dead money 3.5. East cut.If we cut Tanny post June then the dead money is 5+mill
Trading Jones is a great idea but we're gonna have a hard time finding a taker with that crazy contract.
With Kiko we save almost nothing so might as well keep him.