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Originally Posted by Schneed10
This is incorrect. The Redskins seem to have a lot of money tied up in cap figures for the 2008 season (currently stands at $102 million against the $116 million projected cap), but $60 million of it is tied to base salaries which can easily be renegotiated (and will be as the team has historically done). For example, saying goodbye to Brunell sometime before the 2008 season would clear his $6.5 million salary off the books and create almost enough space to handle Archuleta's $7 million deadcap hit alone. In addition, guys like Jansen, Samuels, R Thomas, Portis, Springs, and Marcus Washington are all scheduled to make $4 million or higher in 2008 base salaries. These can easily be renegotiated this time next year to clear another $10-$20 million in 2008 cap space, if the team needs.
The team has plenty of flexibility to not only cut Archuleta, but also cut Brandon Lloyd this year if they wanted to. Should they try to cut both, then they'd be more restricted in free agency. I don't think they'll do that, but they easily have the cap flexibility to create the space they need in both 2007 and 2008.
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Not arguing the flexibilty, but I'm just saying its a bad situation. We will need to put almost 30 guys under contract for 2008 who arent already with only cap room created through restructuring. It's not that hard to do, but damned if we can fit anyone of quality into that number.
If we continue to restructure everybody, it's going to get harder and harder to get any talent through FA from 2008 foward. We simply will have too many roster spaces to fill with a relatively small amount of cap space. We have to make sure to restructure only as much space as we need.