Why create all this cap space for this year after everyone really worth a shit has already signed elsewhere?
that's what we've been saying for years (especially the last month). Our front office doesn't know what they are doing and its infuriating. Getting rid of everyone to get cap space, but for WHAT? If we are rebuilding, trade Tanne's ass outta here
You only have like 25 mil in space according to over the cap. There is plenty of time left to use a lot of that number
There isn't anything you could have done in this singular off season to make you significantly better
yes and the point is that usually good-to great teams have to lower there cap because they have signed a lot of really good players to "go for it" and hopefully make a Championship game/Super Bowl or 2. This team over budgeted and blew the cap so badly just to go 6-10. And we called this (mainly CF3234) years in advance. With the 2nd worst cap figure in the league, the dolphins still had way too many holes. - 1 winning season in the past 10 years
Most good to great teams don't spend a ton of money in free agency to "go for it". They are perpetually on the higher end of spending cumulatively though. I was just pointing out that the moves they made to get a little bit of cap space are likely going to lead to the signings of players they believe can help the moving forward. They dumped players that aren't a part of the future and would be a negative impact in the locker room. That's a part of the rebuilding process
yup. and those players will contribute to another 6-10 season and the fins will be back in cap hell next offseason requiring them to cut a bunch of the guys they resturctured this year creating more dead cap space. Then they will restructure some more guys to sign more mediocre players which will continue the cycle of crap.
and had to cut its best player creating 13 million in dead cap space. Lets say that again. The Dolphins had to cut their best player off a 6-10 team because they blew the cap so badly. Instead of realizing that, they are creating cap space by sacrificing the future to go for it again. It's incredible.
They're not really sacrificing the future 50ish mil next year and 115 or something the year after. Really comes down to if you draft well, they'll be able to make moves
you can't determine your future cap space by a number when the next offseason is still 12 months away. They still have people to sign, their draft picks, and any extensions they give out. They also have the impending dead cap space from people they cut going into next year. That 50 million number will be vastly diminished by December.
Right, but if you use the money appropriately you can make an impact. There are teams with much less money in the coming years
they had him on a deal that allowed them to cut him with almost no dead cap space before every season. That's now gone. This fucking team.
With his relatively light contract, I think we should’ve been able to trade him if we really wanted to get rid of him.
I don't really get the tannehill thing unless you're sold on him for the next two years, which wouldn't surprise me. He's not great but would you rather cut him and move up in this year's draft and spend that capital? He's a decent option during a remake of the team
id be fine with all of those other than stills but we'd still have a decent amount of dead cap space from cutting those guys. Thankfully that number goes down quite a bit after this year.
Yeah there’s some versatility along the OL we can shuffle a bit Unfortunately this may force us to emphasize OL in the draft even more and I don’t want to take an interior OL at 11
P im good telling a guy who is already making a ton of money even though his play is nowhere near what it was when that contract was signed that we aren't going to extend him and his degenerative hip condition even longer.
Feb 15, 2018, 6:07am PST The San Francisco 49ers signed Daniel Kilgore to a three-year contract on Wednesday, and Ian Rapoport has the first details on the deal. The deal is worth as much as $12 million, with $7 million in guarantees, according to Rapoport. The APY ranks 15th among NFL centers, based on end of 2017 figures. The final year of his last contract ranked 21st. sign him to a 3 year deal just a month ago and now trade him for a 7th rounder? :wut: