NFL Free Agents Signings

[MTK]

Suh is a great player but that's crazy money.

[Skinzman]

Im not sure how the Dolphins are going to sign Suh with their cap situation. They have a little over 2 mil in cap space now based on the numbers at Overthecap.com.

Total Cap Number: $145,016,177 (Top 51: $142,840,511)

Thats what they list prior to the signing. And thats based on the rule of 51. Once the season starts, they will have to account for 53 players, the practice squad, and any injured reserve players. They are going to have to do some serious cutting and/or restructuring to make this work. If they plan on signing Tannehill next year, thats going to take a good amount more money to fit in next year.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Skinzman

Im not sure how the Dolphins are going to sign Suh with their cap situation. They have a little over 2 mil in cap space now based on the numbers at Overthecap.com.

Total Cap Number: $145,016,177 (Top 51: $142,840,511)

Thats what they list prior to the signing. And thats based on the rule of 51. Once the season starts, they will have to account for 53 players, the practice squad, and any injured reserve players. They are going to have to do some serious cutting and/or restructuring to make this work. If they plan on signing Tannehill next year, thats going to take a good amount more money to fit in next year.

Right now they are following the Vinnie Cerrato - DS school of salary cap management. Squeeze it to the limit for the big name(s) and have no depth at all. You can always get under the salary cap - we got a 16M cap hit 2 years in a row and never went over, but you simply give up flexibility and depth.

[Skinzman]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Right now they are following the Vinnie Cerrato - DS school of salary cap management. Squeeze it to the limit for the big name(s) and have no depth at all. You can always get under the salary cap - we got a 16M cap hit 2 years in a row and never went over, but you simply give up flexibility and depth.

I thought it was 18 mil for 2 years in cap penalties that we had gotten. Even so, when we got our cap penalties, we had a lot of space cleared from Halls and Haynesworths contracts, which brought on the penalties in the first place. They have no space cleared and are going to have to create it. I agree that this is a Snyderatto type move. Although I dont think Suh will tank it once he gets the money like Haynesworth did so they will probably get production out of the signing, unlike what we got from all our fantasy football signings of Cerrato.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Right now they are following the Vinnie Cerrato - DS school of salary cap management. Squeeze it to the limit for the big name(s) and have no depth at all. You can always get under the salary cap - we got a 16M cap hit 2 years in a row and never went over, but you simply give up flexibility and depth.

IMO The Fins owner Ross strongly resembles Snyder circa 2001: he doesn't understand that you can't just buy a championship.

He also resembles Snyder circa 2015: he can't leave football to the football people.

[donofriose]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Right now they are following the Vinnie Cerrato - DS school of salary cap management. Squeeze it to the limit for the big name(s) and have no depth at all. You can always get under the salary cap - we got a 16M cap hit 2 years in a row and never went over, but you simply give up flexibility and depth.

That is the problem with signing those big name players like Suh. You sacrifice so much in other places that it just ends up killing your team. Suh could very well end up being a beast but it won't matter if every other position sucks.