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Originally Posted by Schneed10
Seriously, I'm getting woozy!
Now that we have $9.7 million, it tells me that the team is preparing to add a significant contract or two. The team would never want to restructure Portis and Moss if they wanted to stand pat with their current roster. If you're not going to acquire any more big contracts, why push the Moss & Portis cap dollars into the future? If you were going to stand pat with your roster, you'd logically want to let the Portis and Moss cap hits take care of themselves this year, and go into future years in better shape.
We usually only need $4-5 million to take care of our rookies. This tells me that one of a couple different things could be happening:
1) Most likely, Dre Bly is coming to town in that trade we're hearing about.
2) We could be preparing to sign a LG, like that guy from the Ravens (though JLC hasn't said we've made contact yet).
3) Quite likely, we could be preparing to eat a big cap hit from Brandon Lloyd or Archuleta (despite what Gibbs says publicly about them being part of the future). BTW, Springs isn't actually a big cap hit this season, he's on the books for $7 million if he stays and on the books for $7 million if he's traded, so he doesn't factor in really.
4) And then after all our moves, we could be preparing to lock up Cooley before he hits the open market in 2008.
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I agree with your analysis.
As for Springs, it makes total sense why the Skins are asking for some kind of cap relief in any deal (as has been reported). He'll cost us $7M whether he's here or not so it doesn't make too much sense to trade him without getting some of that $7M back. We could always make him a June 1 cut and push the bulk of the deadcap to 2008. But considering how much cap room we have this year, there's really no point to push the money to the future.