Cap Sheets Update 8/4/05

[Drift Reality]

Cutting the following players after the July 1 in 2006:

Mark Brunell 5.433
John Hall 1.82
Darnernian McCants 2.167
Renaldo Wynn 3.453
Brandon Noble 2.630

Would shave 15 million of our cap number and bring us to about 92 million, which should be right around the cap. The only big dead cap hit will be Brunell's, but after L. Coles cap hit this year - that will look like peanuts.

Hopefully, some of the top guys will renegotiate so we can resign some of our pending free agents that year.

We better hope we can find a D-lineman in the draft next year though...particularly if we cut Wynn and/or Noble. Hopefully we will have enough picks in the draft - 2, 3, 5, 6, 6, 7 - to pick up some young d-line depth.

[manicd]

Originally Posted by Drift Reality

Cutting the following players after the July 1 in 2006:

Mark Brunell 5.433
John Hall 1.82
Darnernian McCants 2.167
Renaldo Wynn 3.453
Brandon Noble 2.630

Would shave 15 million of our cap number and bring us to about 92 million, which should be right around the cap. The only big dead cap hit will be Brunell's, but after L. Coles cap hit this year - that will look like peanuts.

Hopefully, some of the top guys will renegotiate so we can resign some of our pending free agents that year.

We better hope we can find a D-lineman in the draft next year though...particularly if we cut Wynn and/or Noble. Hopefully we will have enough picks in the draft - 2, 3, 5, 6, 6, 7 - to pick up some young d-line depth.

I don't know about Wynn. While not spectacular, he is solid. And he can play both End and Tackle. Fact is, he would have to be replaced. DEs are super expensive, so I don't know how that would work. Basically, everyone wants an upgrade at that positon. Well, wouldn't an upgrade most likely cost more money?

[MTK]

Will McCants make it to next year?

It's not looking good for him right now.

[CrazyCanuck]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Will McCants make it to next year?

It's not looking good for him right now.

Well if we dumped him now we'd save only about $545K against our 2005 cap. Plus another player would have to replace McCants in the top 51 at a minimum cap hit of $230K. So the savings by cutting him now are minimal.

But barring a miracle and/or a major restructuring I think it's safe to say he won't be around in 2006.

[SmootSmack]

So if I'm understanding right are you saying that it actually helps the team to have McCants on the roster this season--not necessarily from a football standpoint but from a financial standpoint?

[CrazyCanuck]

Originally Posted by TAFKAS

So if I'm understanding right are you saying that it actually helps the team to have McCants on the roster this season--not necessarily from a football standpoint but from a financial standpoint?

I'm just saying that cutting him now will not save us much at all. So unless Gibbs thinks he's totally useless, we may as well keep him around one more year, similar to Brunell.

[monk81]

Thanks for all your hard work Canuck!!!

[MTK]

If we only keep 5 WRs, which seems likely, McCants will likely be out.

[GoSkins!]

McCants will need to show something that he has that can't be provided by Cooley and/or Royal if he plans on staying. They say he looks bad and slow in camp. I wonder if that has anything to do with the speed of our other receivers making him look sluggish.

[CRT3]

Just remember as I have said in the past, The skins are playing for the no cap year of 2007. No labor agreement that everybody said would be signed by now is going to happen.