Rookie Needs Rising as FA Options Decrease

[AFCMiamiEast]

If you had to pick 10 players to pay, who would they be or, are there not 10 on this roster? Rookies and 2nd year guys would not yet count.

Absolutely no way there are 10 guys "worth paying"...and when you say that, I interpret that as being very good, to great franchise players. That would mean just about half the starters on both sides of the ball would be in that category if Miami paid that much. Lol no where close as of right now...that's why we are all watching the young guys work and hope for the best.

 

[So Be]

Absolutely no way there are 10 guys "worth paying"...and when you say that, I interpret that as being very good, to great franchise players. That would mean just about half the starters on both sides of the ball would be in that category if Miami paid that much. Lol no where close as of right now...that's why we are all watching the young guys work and hope for the best.

To give a better idea, let's look at our top ten cap hits for next year.

Wallace- $12M

Wake- $10M

Grimes- $10M

Albert- $10M

Ellerbe- $10M

Jones- $8M

Hartline- $7M

Pouncey- $7M

Starks- $6M

Finnegen- $6M

Then we have Jordan- $5.5M, Mitchell, Misi, and Wheeler- $4.5M, and Gibson and Fields- $4M. We also have Moore, Moreno, Delomas, Odrick, and Clay to sign or replace.

Tannehill is at $4M next year and we would need to free up another $12M to pay him in 2016. Clay and Odrick may cost around $12M combined for next year.


Back to our top ten. Who is worth paying?

 

[eric1317]

To give a better idea, let's look at our top ten cap hits for next year.

Wallace- $12M

Wake- $10M

Grimes- $10M

Albert- $10M

Ellerbe- $10M

Jones- $8M

Hartline- $7M

Pouncey- $7M

Starks- $6M

Finnegen- $6M

Then we have Jordan- $5.5M, Mitchell, Misi, and Wheeler- $4.5M, and Gibson and Fields- $4M. We also have Moore, Moreno, Delomas, Odrick, and Clay to sign or replace.

Tannehill is at $4M next year and we would need to free up another $12M to pay him in 2016. Clay and Odrick may cost around $12M combined for next year.


Back to our top ten. Who is worth paying?

This seems to illustrate the point of the importance of drafting well. 4 of the top five cap number players are former free agents. Walllace and Ellerbe are grossly over paid putting our team in financial difficulty over the next couple of years. Compounding this is the fact that we over paid hartline and Jones. We will have to rely more heavily on draft choices over the next few years if we want to keep clay, odrick, and tannihill.

 

[j-off-her-doll]

Vets get paid more because of the rookie salary cap. Seattle has done a great job of identifying and locking up their special players (the ones you can't just replace) and building a system that can replace the periphery guys without much issue.

The dynamics are slightly different, and the teams that best understand this have an advantage, but the basic premise has always been the same.

 

[Digital]

One interesting wrinkle the new CBS rookie wage scale has created is QB gambles. Before, a team was devastated when they drafted a QB high an he wasn't successful or got injured. Almost nobody had running QB's because if they were good you protected them like the crown jewels.

Now, QB's are just another guy ("JAG"), so lot of teams are taking. Flyer on running QB's and if they get injured, they just use another guy.

That's why GM's gamble 9n QB's now and why coaches are not afraid of them getting hurt like they used to be.

Bad franchises typically have no good QB. Now they can roll the dice every year until they find one. It makes the league more competitive but also more of a meat grinder. QB's will not be extended beyond their rookie contracts unless they have proven to be the answer at the position.