The Official Warpath Sign Tim Rattay and Cut Todd Collins Thread

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Originally Posted by Schneed10

Carr signed for 2 years, $6.2 million.

ESPN.com - NFL - Carr agrees with Panthers, will back up Delhomme

If Rattay got Carr money, we would cut Collins to save $1.2 million, but then eat up about $2.5 - $3.1 million in room, for a net hit to our cap of somewhere between $1.3 - $1.9 million. That would leave us with about $3.0 million in space, barely enough to sign rookies, and if we can manage to get the rookies squeezed in there, we'd have no wiggle room during the season. And you could forget about having the flexibility to trade for an Asante Samuel or Lance Briggs before the draft (maybe that's a good thing, I don't know).

Rattay may not get Carr money, but not too far below it. In any case, signing him would make our 2007 cap situation VERY tight. We could ditch Renaldo Wynn to help make room, but have you made your team any better by going from Collins to Rattay and dropping Wynn in the process?

You need to leave a little room for signing guys in season.

I would pay him reasonable No. 2 money. That's more than Collins is making, but you save 1.2 mil by cutting Collins. I would give Rattay 3 years with a 3.5 million signing bonus, vet min base salary this year, one million base sal next year, and 1.2 million in 2009.

That gives him a cap number under 2 million for this season. We are saving 1.2 million already on cutting Collins, so the net cap cost against this years cap would be somewhere between 0.5 million and 0.8 million. More than reasonable to cheaply lock up the backup QB situation for the next 3 years.