Salary Cap-must read

[So Be]

I wonder if these figures are wrong. The sun Sentinel keeps saying they have about 29 million. I believe that is what they are reporting the NFL is saying. But that does not included FA's.

There are a number of different ways to come up with a salary cap number. One does not include the carry over from this year, another counts the projected draft money, etc, etc. I remember going through the same deal last year with the local reporters saying we will not have the money we think, and will not be a big player in FA.

I disputed that last year, and do so more this year. Trust who ya like but, I am absolutely, positively sure, beyond any shadow of any doubt, that we will have a TON of cap space to sign whatever FA's the new GM wants to sign. Guarantee it.

 

[So Be]

38 million sounds great till you factor in that we need 4 starting OL, 2 starting DT's, and 1 starting CB. Soliai and Grimes will cost 15 million per year at least that puts us at 23 mil. That allows us to spend 5.5 mil or so on each of the remaining starting positions, but we may want to sign rookies and actually fill out the rest of the roster.

You mean like last year?

 

[roy_miami]

Isn't it due to go up this year too because of new TV deals?

 

[So Be]

Isn't it due to go up this year too because of new TV deals?

Big battle looming in that regard. Guys like Pat's owner Kraft saying it should go up gradually at around $5M a year, and NFLPA not agreeing and looking for a $15+M jump. That will be a big topic after the SB. I believe we will see a $5M jump this year, and a $15M next year based on current info, which is subject to change.

 

[roy_miami]

Big battle looming in that regard. Guys like Pat's owner Kraft saying it should go up gradually at around $5M a year, and NFLPA not agreeing and looking for a $15+M jump. That will be a big topic after the SB. I believe we will see a $5M jump this year, and a $15M next year based on current info, which is subject to change.

This is why us having $22 million in cap space at the beginning of the season was even more egregious, I think some teams planned on and spent on the presumption the cap was going up which put us at an even bigger disadvantage.

 

[eric1317]

Yea I mean exactly like last year. Lets say we decide we need Albert at 8 mil per year. That puts us down to 15 mil and we still have 4 starting positions to fill plus upgrades at RB, TE and LB and we decide that we need backups and actually want to sign our rookies. You simply can not expect to spend 100's of millions every on free agents and not expect that to catch up with you. If we do spend big on free agents this year we'll see a lot of contracts like Wallace's and a year or do down the road we'll have a cap number of 17 million on Albert or some other big name guy.

 

[So Be]

This is why us having $22 million in cap space at the beginning of the season was even more egregious, I think some teams planned on and spent on the presumption the cap was going up which put us at an even bigger disadvantage.

Kraft had a clever/funny comment last year when asked about teams planning for a big cap increase this year. He said that he hoped they were in our division.

He may be wrong but, I don't think so this year. There are many issues with insurance's, an carry over's to increase last year's cap to be resolved.

 

[So Be]

Yea I mean exactly like last year. Lets say we decide we need Albert at 8 mil per year. That puts us down to 15 mil and we still have 4 starting positions to fill plus upgrades at RB, TE and LB and we decide that we need backups and actually want to sign our rookies. You simply can not expect to spend 100's of millions every on free agents and not expect that to catch up with you. If we do spend big on free agents this year we'll see a lot of contracts like Wallace's and a year or do down the road we'll have a cap number of 17 million on Albert or some other big name guy.

The 100's of millions is monopoly money, and meaningless. The only part of NFL contracts which matter is the guaranteed money. The Wallace contract of $1M last year and $17M this year, as well as the ones given to Ellerbe and Wheeler, gave Ireland all kind of options, which he did not use.

The average price of a contract means nothing.

IF those players do not work out, they can be cut after this year with minimal cap damage.

 

[J. David Wannyheimer]

They already got an advance on the new revenue as part of the CBA. There isn't going to be some huge, magical cap hike this year.

 

[So Be]

They already got an advance on the new revenue as part of the CBA. There isn't going to be some huge, magical cap hike this year.

They got an advance to stabilize the cap, and it was not a part of the CBA initial agreement. This is why I said it will take a year to sort it out, and not have a BIG increase until next year, depending on what actually works out between the NFL and the NFLPA.

 

[miamiron]

We really need to resign Grimes and Patterson. Hopefully Patterson can resign at a fair contract due to his lack of playing time. Some keep speaking about restructuring Wallace but the one who needs to restructure is Wheeler.

Actually Patterson is signed through NEXT season

 

[jason_taylor]

Hate on Jeff Ireland all you want but the dude left us in pretty good shape. Plenty of cap room for the next gm to come in and play around.

That right there is why Fireland isnt here anymore , he wouldnt spend money in FA , and wouldnt bring players in out of FA , to help make this team better , and he couldnt draft worth a crap , in 2 years no further back just in the last 2 years , how many starters do we have from his draft ? and thats out of say 14-15 picks ? if im not mistaken we have 2 starters out of the last 2 years , Tannehill and Miller , thats Not a good stat , Not drafting good and not picking FA Talent up in FA , and imo you cant make your team better if you hold your cap money and try to get by on mediocrity , and thats 2 reasons were not better , and why fireland has been shown the door .[h=3][/h]

 

[jason_taylor]

I wonder if these figures are wrong. The sun Sentinel keeps saying they have about 29 million. I believe that is what they are reporting the NFL is saying. But that does not included FA's.

If im not badly mistaken we had , that we didnt use this year around 23 mil that we didnt spend and the cap will prob go up again this year , throw in the other odds and ends we should be close to 39 mil then if we can restructure a few contracts we could be around 50+mil to use this up and coming year .

 

[BG12DM13CP10]

Factor in Moore's ability to come off the bench cold and win us games and you have one of the most unnoticed integral part of our future success at QB..

Did I miss something?

 

[jason_taylor]

i checked this place out and we look pretty good from that one , and thats not counting the restructure of contracts..http://overthecap.com/calculator/?Team=Dolphins