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1. Trade Gardner before the draft or cut him after June 1st.
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Trading or cutting him will save us $1.5M on the 2005 cap ($2.1M minus $660K dead cap). But I don't think there's any way we'd cut him and get nothing back in return. He's too valuable. I do agree he'll probably be traded. I was happy to see McCants last game, but was a little surprised it was at the expense of Gardner. Hopefully Rod hasn't moved down the depth chart. While I'd like our young guys to get more experience, it makes more sense to showcase Gardner's talents the rest of the season to boost his trade value. I think we could potentially get a 1st rounder for him, am I crazy? And while I agree trading him is probably the right move, I'd be sad to see him go just as he seems to be coming into his own.
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2. Trade Samuels before the draft of cut him after June 1st (if he doesn't renegotiate). This would create around a 4 million dollar cap hit, but save us about 5 million dollars in cap room next year.
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Samuels is a $9.6M cap hit in 2005, and $11.3M in 2006. He's got $5.8M of dead cap left after this year. I think keeping him in 2006 without a restructure would be impossible (plus he can void the year if he wants). There are a few options, but his situation is complicated. I think I'll start another thread on Samuels soon.
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3. Cut Barrow after June 1st. This would save us 2 million in room in 2005, and cost us around a 2.25 million dollar hit in 2006.
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Barrow's 2005 cap hit is $2.1M. Cutting/trading Barrow will create $2.1M in dead cap. As long as the guy can play, doesn't make much sense to cut him. Agreed, doing it after June 1 will push $1.7M onto 2006, but 2006 is our trouble year. My guess is that Barrow's back in 2005, assuming he can play.
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4. Keep Brunell for one year, and then cut him after June 1, 2006. (I really hope he renegotiates) This would save us 5.4 million dollars in 2006 (which we will desperately need) and cost us about 4 million in dead cap room the following year.
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Agreed.
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5. Cut Wynn after June 1st 2005 (if he doesn't renegotiate). This will save us about 4.5 million dollars in 2006 and the cap hit for 2007 will be less than 1 million dollars.
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Wynn is a $4.1M cap hit in 2005, and I agree he'll probably be gone. He'll create $1.7M in dead cap, $1.2M of which can be pushed to 2006. Again I think we'll just eat it all in 2005.