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Wow! This Team Is A Mess In Contracts!

SR 7 said:
is it me or is our TEAM JUST OVERPAID!

Top Salary Cap Slammers on the Dolphins...
1. Jason Taylor, DE = $9.5 Million
2. Zach Thomas, LB = $7.987 Million
3. Chris Chambers, WR = $7.316 Million
4. Daunte Culpepper, QB = $6.9 Million
5. Kevin Carter, DE = $6.475 Million
6. Randy McMichael, TE = $5.404 Million
7. Jeno James, G = $3.958 Million
8. Seth McKinney, G = $3.957 Million
9. Marty Booker, WR = $3.7 Million
10. Joey Harrington, QB = $3.48 Million
11. Ronnie Brown, RB = $3.43 Million
12. L.J. Shelton, G/T = $2.875 Million
13. Will Allen, CB = $2.525 Million
14. Dan Wilkinson, DT = $2.16 Million
15. Olindo Mare, K = $2.12 Million
16. Bennie Anderson, G = $2.1 Million
17. Renaldo Hill, S = $2.06 Million
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teh BOLD is the WILL RESTRUCTURE as usual
the Italic is WILL GET CUT
adn the bold with underlined is BETTER RESTRUCTURE or they risk getting cut.
 
You guys are too liberal with who you figure to restructure. With how close Zach Thomas is to retirement, and how far under the cap we are, why would we get him to push yet even more of his salary into future years?

Same really goes for Jason Taylor as well.

With how much Chambers underachieves, and the very real possibility that his underachievement outgrows his contract in the coming years, why would you lop off salary and push it off into the future?

You don't just push money off to future years for the heck of it. If a guy's got a $10 million salary cap figure, mostly salary, and you intend to pay him every bit of that money, then by golly you keep that all in the present year if you can afford it (and we can, we not only have $17 under the cap now but can easily get $10 mil more just by cutting a few under-productive guys).

The kind of thinking where high cap figures are automatic candidates for restructuring is the kind of thinking that got teams stuck in a cycle of talent accumulation and rebuilding years. If you notice, some of the best teams out there are in some of the best cap shape. Why is that? Because they DON'T keep restructuring contracts for no good reason, they reserve their future salary cap dollars for future years...and heck, even consider sacrificiing some present salary cap for the sake of the future.
 
ckparrothead said:
You guys are too liberal with who you figure to restructure. With how close Zach Thomas is to retirement, and how far under the cap we are, why would we get him to push yet even more of his salary into future years?

Same really goes for Jason Taylor as well.

With how much Chambers underachieves, and the very real possibility that his underachievement outgrows his contract in the coming years, why would you lop off salary and push it off into the future?

You don't just push money off to future years for the heck of it. If a guy's got a $10 million salary cap figure, mostly salary, and you intend to pay him every bit of that money, then by golly you keep that all in the present year if you can afford it (and we can, we not only have $17 under the cap now but can easily get $10 mil more just by cutting a few under-productive guys).

The kind of thinking where high cap figures are automatic candidates for restructuring is the kind of thinking that got teams stuck in a cycle of talent accumulation and rebuilding years. If you notice, some of the best teams out there are in some of the best cap shape. Why is that? Because they DON'T keep restructuring contracts for no good reason, they reserve their future salary cap dollars for future years...and heck, even consider sacrificiing some present salary cap for the sake of the future.
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Let's not even begin on the garbage that is the Redskins contracting procedure...
 
FinFan16 said:
all the bold players are very likely to be traded or cut.....

Plus others such as Mare, wilkinson, JT and ZT might restructure!!!
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I agree 100% with you here and with the guys you have in bold. Big daddy might be gone all together though. Not sure how cutting the guys in bold will affect the Salery cap.

I'd look for JT and Zach to restructure because that's the type of players they are... they'll do it for the team. Asking Chambers to restructure based on his poor performance for one season (which can be attributed to many different things) would be a slap in his face. If he's approached like this "Can you restructure a little bit, to spread out the money over a few yrs, to help the team". I can see him doing that.

Mare should do it if he wants to stay on the team because at this point... he MAY be expendable. I still think he can play and can help our team but his play has been declining. He picked it up towards the end of the season though.
 
SR 7 said:
is it me or is our TEAM JUST OVERPAID!

Top Salary Cap Slammers on the Dolphins...
1. Jason Taylor, DE = $9.5 Million
2. Zach Thomas, LB = $7.987 Million
3. Chris Chambers, WR = $7.316 Million
4. Daunte Culpepper, QB = $6.9 Million
5. Kevin Carter, DE = $6.475 Million
6. Randy McMichael, TE = $5.404 Million
7. Jeno James, G = $3.958 Million
8. Seth McKinney, G = $3.957 Million
9. Marty Booker, WR = $3.7 Million
10. Joey Harrington, QB = $3.48 Million
11. Ronnie Brown, RB = $3.43 Million
12. L.J. Shelton, G/T = $2.875 Million
13. Will Allen, CB = $2.525 Million
14. Dan Wilkinson, DT = $2.16 Million
15. Olindo Mare, K = $2.12 Million
16. Bennie Anderson, G = $2.1 Million
17. Renaldo Hill, S = $2.06 Million
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Nobody besides Thomas, Taylor, Brown and Booker earn what they make and Harrington/Culpepper's salaries are jokes. :shakeno: :shakeno: :shakeno: :shakeno:
 
PhinGeneral said:
Zach Thomas and Jason Taylor may only have a few seasons left, so having them restructure doesn't make a lot of sense unless it came out of absolute necessity, since you'd still take the cap hit down the line. You also don't ask players like that who are still playing at a high level to take a pay cut.
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Yeah I understand that but I just know that they would both take pay cuts in a heart beat if asked to. True team players and I love them both for that.
 
ckparrothead said:
You guys are too liberal with who you figure to restructure. With how close Zach Thomas is to retirement, and how far under the cap we are, why would we get him to push yet even more of his salary into future years?

Same really goes for Jason Taylor as well.

With how much Chambers underachieves, and the very real possibility that his underachievement outgrows his contract in the coming years, why would you lop off salary and push it off into the future?

You don't just push money off to future years for the heck of it. If a guy's got a $10 million salary cap figure, mostly salary, and you intend to pay him every bit of that money, then by golly you keep that all in the present year if you can afford it (and we can, we not only have $17 under the cap now but can easily get $10 mil more just by cutting a few under-productive guys).

The kind of thinking where high cap figures are automatic candidates for restructuring is the kind of thinking that got teams stuck in a cycle of talent accumulation and rebuilding years. If you notice, some of the best teams out there are in some of the best cap shape. Why is that? Because they DON'T keep restructuring contracts for no good reason, they reserve their future salary cap dollars for future years...and heck, even consider sacrificiing some present salary cap for the sake of the future.
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Too few on this board will truly understand your post.
But it's spot-on accurate...

:clap:
 
Joey Harrington sticks out the most.

You don't pay that much for a BACKUP QB who is absolutely nothing more.

Cleo Lemon, if anything, proved that he can be a good backup, IMO.
 
KiNG said:
Joey Harrington sticks out the most.

You don't pay that much for a BACKUP QB who is absolutely nothing more.

Cleo Lemon, if anything, proved that he can be a good backup, IMO.
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no mor elike proved he is a BETTER back up then JOEY and has better potential as a back up as well.
 
SR 7 said:
no mor elike proved he is a BETTER back up then JOEY and has better potential as a back up as well.
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Lemon may turn out to be the next Montano or the next Lucas, it's just too early to tell IMO.
 
thecoordinator said:
LMAO
aside from JT, what a bunch of overpaid underachievers. again, aside from JT, EVERYONE on that list is overpaid. yes, ZT too. he makes 7 mil a year and is useless both blitzing and in coverage. seth mckinney set to make 4 mil? that's criminal.
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How are you going to hate on Zach like that? The guy was the all-pro team middle linebacker. Do you know what that means? That means he was the best MLB in the entire NFL.
 
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