Projected 2007 Salary Cap Figures

What does it tell us that the top 7 teams in terms of the most cap space also sucked last year and didn't make the playoffs or win more than 8 games each?

 

That they had lousy players?

 

It tells us that they got rid of all their overpriced players to make room for veterans on the cheap and young guys they can develop. It's called rebuilding and it's going to work out well for all these teams.

The teams that are really in trouble are Washington, Oakland, Detroit, and Houston because they have bad rosters and also do not sit well salary cap wise.

My prediction for team that will turn it all around next year is Arizona. Yes, everyone says that about them every year but I never bit. But now they have a high first round pick, lots of cap space, and a much better coach.

 

By the time we sign some of our own, like Rhodes and Cotchery, a guy like Asante Samuel may be too expensive. Sure, we have the room, but then we'de be much closer to the cap limit. Samuel and Clements will get over paid. Buffalo had the space to tag Clements, but decided not to. The numbers that I've read Samuel wants are huge. All this talk about Turner.... that 28 mil could go away in a hurry.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Jets don't sign any big money FA's at this point.

 

Is there a list of free agents on each team? I see the 9ers and bills have almost 40 million but how many of their starters/players are free agents? Jets only have 1 starter I believe and its a lineman.

 

Yeah, Clement is the Jets only starter that's a FA.

 

But, the Jets will look to lock some others up as well, like Rhodes and Cotchery, maybe Barton and Hobson? I'm not sure about the last two.... as far as how many years left. With so many teams with that much cap space, this year's FA's might make a ton of money, and be evry expensive to sign.

 

I think we take a cap hit if we cut Blaylock, and maybe the same for JMac.

 

Why would you not think it would not be better to take a cap hit to cut them then to keep them on the roster where they are virtually unproductive especially in Blaylock case? JMaC is just behind Blaylock in being unproductive.

 

Well put together, I didn't realize the bills had so much room. I think their future looks to be pretty promising as well.

 

by time we get a few contracts off the books that will go up Barlow,blaylock,jmac, ext.

 

well that # can go down quite a bit if the resign clements or franchise him again. as he will require big bucks.

 

Actually Askew is the starting FB and he is a UFA. I don't expect him to be re-signed though.

 

He didn't say that anywhere in his post, just trying to answer that poster's question

 

JMac had the highest average per catch. He didn't get thrown to that much and I don't believe that he dropped passes and was able to get deep. I don't think he is that bad. You can't put up big numbers if you don't get enough opportunities.

 

No matter what the stats may be for JMaC he certainly did not tingle the toes of the CS otherwise he would have played much more. MHO is he will be cut again no matter of the stats. Also CP made not have had the confidence in JMaC due to the dropsy issue

 

I hope they don't.

*As good as Samuel and Turner can get... no.*

 

The final tally's are pretty difficult to predict. Some of the teams with little cap space have been pretty adept at restructuring deals, knowing when to cut over paid players etc.

While the cap is a hard number there are many techniques to artificially lower it and or squander a big number with unwise decisions.

However, with all the money teams have to throw around it would be my guess that we will see little to no real movement and/or ridiculous signings that will raise other salaries across the board thereby making the value of a Cotchery or Rhodes even higher. Then the baseline for each and every player will go higher.

Meaning to sign a player a year or two away from his contract expiring will become progressively more expensive because all the new contracts will be benchmarked against the ridiculous money a free agent will get because of the increased cap space. Thus each team with seemingly a huge amount of cap room really has much less than they expect.

This will all reach an equilibrium in a year or two. Then we will start to see the movement to and fro creep up again. .............

Which leads me to believe that Tannenbaum and Mangini are aware of this and will do little in the FA market to ruin the salary structure of the team. I think there will be little to no gigantic signings by the Jets. This FO seems to be at the head of the class in terms of building a team within the frame work of the draft and a hard salary cap. Of course this is just an observation/conclusion derived from a resume that is only one year long so take it FWIW.