Offseason cuts are coming in

[hutch17]

Bye Bye Barry Cofield, I always liked him and felt he was misused by Haz, but he is too expensive now.

Barry Cofield Released by the Redskins Per Agent - Hogs Haven

[over the mountain]

http://www.thewarpath.net/WarpathRedskinsCap.htm

^^^ updated cap sheet

The NFL has stated that next year's cap will be about $140M. The NFL Player's union thinks it will be higher, but let's go with the $140M for now.

Cap: $140M
2015 Redskins Cap Total: $123.7M
Current Room: $16.7M

Expected Cuts (what I'd expect to happen):
Bowen $5.5M
Chester $4.0M
Porter $2.8M
Paulsen $1.8M
4 Players Replacing at Min Salary: ($2.0M)
Total Cut Impact: $12.1M

Expected room after cuts: $28.8M, and that's probably conservative.

Plenty of room to fill holes, but amazingly probably not enough to fill ALL the holes. We just have so many, sadly.

Still, you can create more space by extending Trent Williams who is going into the final year of his contract in 2015. Could do something with Garcon, too.

I just don't want to see a bunch of junk investments. $4M for Lauvao and crap like that doesn't do it for me. Have to pay for safeties.

^^ post from Schneed back in Dec with projected cap cuts.


I think we are in a healthy cap space. We have room to do some things or play it safe and not commit a lot of future cap.

I was listening to ravens radio and they have a good bit of cap problems. glad we have room.

[Irrefutable]

Originally Posted by hutch17

Bye Bye Barry Cofield, I always liked him and felt he was misused by Haz, but he is too expensive now.

Barry Cofield Released by the Redskins Per Agent - Hogs Haven

Chris Russell says Bowen will be too

[MTK]

Good to see some housecleaning of the older, higher paid guys.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

http://www.thewarpath.net/WarpathRedskinsCap.htm

^^^ updated cap sheet

The NFL has stated that next year's cap will be about $140M. The NFL Player's union thinks it will be higher, but let's go with the $140M for now.

Cap: $140M
2015 Redskins Cap Total: $123.7M
Current Room: $16.7M

Expected Cuts (what I'd expect to happen):
Bowen $5.5M
Chester $4.0M
Porter $2.8M
Paulsen $1.8M
4 Players Replacing at Min Salary: ($2.0M)
Total Cut Impact: $12.1M

Expected room after cuts: $28.8M, and that's probably conservative.

Plenty of room to fill holes, but amazingly probably not enough to fill ALL the holes. We just have so many, sadly.

Still, you can create more space by extending Trent Williams who is going into the final year of his contract in 2015. Could do something with Garcon, too.

I just don't want to see a bunch of junk investments. $4M for Lauvao and crap like that doesn't do it for me. Have to pay for safeties.

^^ post from Schneed back in Dec with projected cap cuts.


I think we are in a healthy cap space. We have room to do some things or play it safe and not commit a lot of future cap.

I was listening to ravens radio and they have a good bit of cap problems. glad we have room.

I didn't even account for Cofield, he represents a big savings. Assuming Bowen Chester and Porter all hit the road - I'd be surprised if they didn't, McCloughan will have a lot of cap space to work with.

Unless he's imagining Baker as the NT, this could be a hat tip to Danny Shelton at #5?

[Chico23231]

Hearing the door is not shut on a return on Cofield for a much lower deal

[EARTHQUAKE2689]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Hearing the door is not shut on a return on Cofield for a much lower deal

I will go ahead and slam it shut

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by EARTHQUAKE2689

I will go ahead and slam it shut

No way, he was a very effective player with a specialty of penetrating when healthy. He's perfect as a DE in a one-gap, when healthy.

He's not the ideal size for a NT, and he's older and coming off an injury year, so do you count on him as a starter? No.

But at a much lower salary, assuming he can't find a deal elsewhere, is a very smart move. He could be a very good rotation guy in Barry's one-gap.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

No way, he was a very effective player with a specialty of penetrating when healthy. He's perfect as a DE in a one-gap, when healthy.

He's not the ideal size for a NT, and he's older and coming off an injury year, so do you count on him as a starter? No.

But at a much lower salary, assuming he can't find a deal elsewhere, is a very smart move. He could be a very good rotation guy in Barry's one-gap.

I agree, if he can get healthy he's worth another look at a much lower rate.

[over the mountain]

2 or so years ago he was good, ranked really high for nose tackles.

but if he cant stay healthy, he cant contribute.

i like coefiled more than bowen or jenkins or baker. Im not a fan of baker bc i think he skips his assignment on any given play and tries to penetrate and get some TV time and do his swaggy dance. too much interest in self promotion vs doing his job. as a DT/NT, you need to eat blockers.

i guess with a new DC maybe he will want baker to penetrate and not eat blockers like haz wanted him to do.

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

He could be a very good rotation guy in Barry's one-gap.

one gap as in he would take on the center? or one gap as in d line guys will try to clog/shoot only 1 pre-assigned gap and not have a choice?

or some 3rd answer which im too dumb to even know exists?

i didnt know DE could have one gap responsibility .... (but i dont really know what one gap is)

[Chico23231]

Stephen Bowen joins Barry Cofield on discard pile in Washington | ProFootballTalk

boom

[Lotus]

IMO drafting Shelton, and kicking a re-signed, more affordable Cofield out to end, would be cool.

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Stephen Bowen joins Barry Cofield on discard pile in Washington | ProFootballTalk

boom

"The Redskins also announced that they have signed right tackle Tom Compton to a one-year deal. Compton started nine games for Washington last season and was set to become a restricted free agent next month."

from the article chico linked. im fine w compton on the cheap for camp. if he makes the team as a backup, so be it.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Stephen Bowen joins Barry Cofield on discard pile in Washington | ProFootballTalk

boom

When you add that to the savings for cutting Cofield, the Redskins gained almost $10 million in cap space.

Nice