jct

http://www.coltscap.net/salarycap.php

15 Mil under salary cap
17 Mil in cuts and IR

Keegs

Yeah they need all that extra money to pay off the refs again.

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solman

They need this money to help pay for the future costs of Manning, Harrison and Freeney. I'm sure they will use restructuring and/or LTBE incentives to make nearly all of this money disappear into future years.

Whether by choice or by accident, moving this much money into future years was the right choice for the Colts to make.

He Ban Me

WAIT! I thought the sky was falling!!

mgteich

We made the same choice last year.

Deus Irae

That depends on whether or not your Colts can play defense.

He Ban Me

We know from last season that they could not. However, they have new blood on the defensive side of the ball. The unit is bigger (hard NOT to get bigger when you replace Jason David). Stronger. Faster. These guys can tackle and hit. League worst in run defense last season, something like 171 ypg. How much will you wager that the Colt defense performs better than that this season?

The sky is falling relates to fans everywhere saying the Colts time is up, that their salary numbers are getting ready to come back and bite them. Well, so far, that has not rang true. Looks like everyone's favorite GM still has it.

BTW, are you impressed with YOUR GM's job in this past offseasons draft? You re-tooled with free agency, and doesn't look like you gained much from the draft. Are the Pats that deep, or were they so-so draft selections?

Brady 2 Moss

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mgteich

1) I agree with you regarding the improvement in the Colt's run defense.
2) This is what we ended up with from our draft choices in the first four rounds.

Meriweather
SF #1 pick in 2008
Welker
OAK #3 pick in 2008
Moss
Brown

I'd say that we did pretty well.

3) We didn't do as well with our lower picks. However, several are still with the squad, three on the IR and one the Practice Squad (so far). Plus we signed a couple of UDFA's, one to the 53-man roster, and one to Practice Squad.

BOTTOM LINE
We'll see in three years, but this looks like a pretty good draft.

everlong

Moss and Welker were courtesy of the draft not FA and we have two firsts and two thirds next year while you have no firsts. The Patriots deemed it a weak draft for their system and acted accordingly.

For FA you wouldn't take Thomas on your team?

Thanks I'll stick with Pioli.

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