Signing our rookies & salary cap

[cpayne5]

How do you propose that the Redskins resolve this problem? Who should we have not signed this off season in anticipation of signing some of these bargains?

Personally, I don't think we'll have any trouble getting our rooks in under the cap.

[Defensewins]

Originally Posted by cpayne5

How do you propose that the Redskins resolve this problem? Who should we have not signed this off season in anticipation of signing some of these bargains?

Personally, I don't think we'll have any trouble getting our rooks in under the cap.

We did not get in this salary cap mess from just signing guys this year. It goes back several years. but the whole $7m Coles trade and the signing of Moss to a big contract is a start. Those two players alone cost us about $8m in cap space this year. One is not even going to play for us. Not a very smart move.

Getting our rooks signed will be additon by subtraction, because we wil have to cut 2-3 players.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Defensewins

We did not get in this salary cap mess from just signing guys last year. It goes back several years. but the whole $7m Coles trade and the signing of Moss to a big contract is a start. those two players cost us proabaly $8m in cap space this year.

Getting our rooks signed will be additon by subtraction, because we wil have to cut 2-3 players.

Now this is getting silly. We already generated some cap room by cutting Chad Morton, we don't need THAT much more room. We will only have to cut Gardner and Barrow to make room for all of our rookies. There's no subtraction there. We all knew Gardner was leaving anyway, and Barrow never even played for us.

If we keep Barrow, we could easily generate the space we need by cutting Cory Raymer, Lennie Friedman, or some other insignificant piece of the puzzle. Don't worry, we don't have to cut anyone important to get our rookies in.