Skins need to free up cap room

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by BeastsoftheNFCeast

according to CC's cap sheets we have about 9.7 mil of space. With Arch and Patten released, we now have about 5.3 mil in space. We signed Wade for two years 6.2 mil contract. Lets lowball it and assume he only gets 2 mil this year. That leaves 3.3 mil left in space. Yoder, Boschetti, and Stoutmire are vets so they should get a decent amount, lets lowball again and say they get 2 mil between the three of them. That is 1.3 mil left in space. Derrick frost signed is getting 850K, which is probably about (lowballing again) 300k more than whoever he knocks off the roster. That is 1 mil left in space even after lowballing everything, and without drafting anyone. On top of freeing up space for the draft, we should have at least 1 mil extra in case anything happens durring the regular season and we need to sign more people. And it looks as if we still want to sign a starting gaurd, not have Wade be the starter due to us bringing in Zach Piller. It doesnt seem like there are enough people that can restructure to bring in Bly who I believe has a contract of over 4 mil this year. As I see it, Wynn, Daniels, Collins, and Maybe Rabach are the only people who look like restructuring can make an impact, but it doesnt look to be enough to bring in Bly, it looks just to be enough to not go over the cap.

Edit- I dont know why I didnt think of this, but Springs being released and taking a paycut, and Bly taking a paycut this year might be able to free up enough space, but I dont think that will happen.

Your math on Archuleta and Patten is off.

CC's cap sheets include Archuleta on the books for $2.4 million and Patten on the books for $3.2 million. Archuleta's dead cap hit is $4.5 million, so that's $2.1 million more than he was on the books for. And Patten's dead cap hit is $3.5 million, which is only $300K more than he was on the books for.

So $9.7 million of room, minus Archuleta's incremental hit of $2.1, minus Patten's incremental hit of $300K, equals $7.3 million in room, not the $5.3 you quoted.

Then layer in the Frost (500K beyond the rule of 51), Yoder (500K beyond the rule of 51), Boschetti (500K beyond the rule of 51), and Stoutmire (500K beyond the rule of 51). Don't forget, all of those guys are signing for around the vet minimum, but Frost isn't the only one that has the rule of 51 applied. I'd say between the 4 of them, they make up $2 million.

Remember, everytime we add somebody, we're bumping a young guy's salary out of the top 51. So if Stoutmire signs for the vet minimum of $800K, we bump a young guy worth $300K out of the top 51. So the damage for each of those guys is likely only $500K or so.

So $7.3 million minus $2 million, I come up with $5.3 million in room.

Then there's Wade, who probably takes up $2.3 million. Leaves us with about $3.0 million.

That's plenty of space for rookies. If we needed more (for Bly), we can still shed Renaldo Wynn or Todd Collins.

We're fine.