Taylor to Return w/o Restructure or Paycut

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Skinny Tee

With releasing Marcus we're still at 4 million over the cap. I don't know how much we'll save by cutting Springs but is that necessarily a good thing? If Springs is cut and we aren't able to sign Hall we'll just have Rogers as CB.

Also if we sign Hall how much space would we really have available after that?

Releasing Springs may sound like a solution to the cap space but I'm not sure I'm all gung ho for it.

No, we're 3.3 million under the cap after releasing Marcus.

[T.O.Killa]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

No, we're 3.3 million under the cap after releasing Marcus.

Does that include Daniels savings.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by T.O.Killa

Does that include Daniels savings.

No it doesn't. Once his contract voids we'll save another $2.3 million or so, taking us from $3.3 million in space to $5.6 million in space.

Of course it's quite possible we turn right around and sign him again, but for less.

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

No it doesn't. Once his contract voids we'll save another $2.3 million or so, taking us from $3.3 million in space to $5.6 million in space.

Of course it's quite possible we turn right around and sign him again, but for less.

If we cut Springs I believe we save $6M, which would put us at $9.3M under. Letting Daniels walk would save us $2.3 pushing it to $11.6 under. Say we re-sign Daniels for a vet minimum style contract, and give Evans a raise to where his '09 number is like $1.5-ish; then we would still be close to $9M under. I would think that would leave us room for D.Hall and a free agent or two plus draft picks.

I'm not a salary cap guru AT ALL, so maybe someone could chime in on this...

[The Goat]

Originally Posted by GMScud

If we cut Springs I believe we save $6M, which would put us at $9.3M under. Letting Daniels walk would save us $2.3 pushing it to $11.6 under. Say we re-sign Daniels for a vet minimum style contract, and give Evans a raise to where his '09 number is like $1.5-ish; then we would still be close to $9M under. I would think that would leave us room for D.Hall and a free agent or two plus draft picks.

I'm not a salary cap guru AT ALL, so maybe someone could chime in on this...

Does all this assume the full salary to JT? I mean are we currently 3.6 million under even w/ the 8.5 million on the books?

Schneed?

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by The Goat

Does all this assume the full salary to JT? I mean are we currently 3.6 million under even w/ the 8.5 million on the books?

Schneed?

Yeah, he's under a contract we assumed when we traded for him. That contract runs through the '09 season. So the numbers being discussed are with his salary on the books.

[The Goat]

Originally Posted by GMScud

Yeah, he's under a contract we assumed when we traded for him. That contract runs through the '09 season. So the numbers being discussed are with his salary on the books.

Thanks for the clarification man, much appreciated. I thought the numbers here were coming from Schneed's salary cap thread which (i thought) assumed Taylor would basically take the 8.5 over two years essentially halving his salary this season... therefor if he took the entire chunk this year we'd be just over the salary cap at this point. My bad...

[44ever]

Originally Posted by GMScud

Yeah, he's under a contract we assumed when we traded for him. That contract runs through the '09 season. So the numbers being discussed are with his salary on the books.

Oh. I didn't know that. Thanks

[Skinny Tee]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

No, we're 3.3 million under the cap after releasing Marcus.

My bad ...disregard then. I thought I caught an article that said we we're still over by 4M.

Thanks for the heads up.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Skinny Tee

My bad ...disregard then. I thought I caught an article that said we we're still over by 4M.

Thanks for the heads up.

I saw an ESPN article saying something similar a few days ago, I think it was Clayton. Yeah that's way off. He's probably pulling that from outdated information (we were about $4 million over the cap for a good part of January), or the source for his accounting is flat out poor.