Salary Cap Analysis

[Pocono]

Originally Posted by 70Chip

When I first read the article, it concerned me. Then I realized that these outside people don't realize that we have been doing this cap dance every off-season for five years. There are some NFL fans who never have to give this a thought because their owners will never put them over the cap. How boring. And yes, I still think the Redskins will be contenders next year.

Canuck: If I were Snyder, Redskin 1 would be headed for the Great White North post haste.

This is the final capped year at present and the CBA says that most of the steps in that cap dance teams do every year can't be used. Just about every Skin's contract is written right up against the 30% rule so to change 06's cap hit will require changing every other year of the contract downward and agents and players aren't going to let that happen. My guess is if 3/1 comes without an extension the Skins will cut down to the minimum of 43 players and hope an extension is done after 3/1. Most of the logical cut targets had their cut savings reduced last year when Snyder did a wave of restructures so he could do the Coles/Moss deal so the largest amount the team can save by cutting one player is 2M by axing Bowen or Harris and those amounts are small bites of a 21-23M apple.