Stop The Madness!!!

[CrazyCanuck]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

I'll defer to Crazy Canuck on this one but at the moment I don't think the Skins are able to franchise Smoot. He would count immediately as a $7.5M figure on their cap and I think they only have $4M in room.

So in order to franchise him, there would have to other moves to save $3.5M immediately. And the only way to do that is to cut players who have only trivial signing bonuses left to amortize.

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

They still have plenty of time to clear room, once Samuels restructures, and that should be soon, that will clear up a nice chunk of cap space.

Both good points and I agree with both. After some housecleaning they should be able to fit Smoot's tag price under the cap. That being said, I don't think we can afford to keep him at the tag price. It's gotta be a tag-and-trade or no tag at all.