OhExaulted1

I see Miguel hasn't made any changes to his page since Sept.. We miss you buddy and I realize how much time and effort you put into maintaing it for a decade. Hope everythings all good.

In any event I came across this page and thought i'd share it with the cap junkies here. If it's been posted before I digress.

2012 New England Patriots Top Cap Hit Salaries

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chris66

this is a really good site as well. jason does a good job of keeping it updated. there is cap info for all afce teams as well

http://nyjetscap.com/Patriots/patriots2012.php

goheels22002

You have to love the new rookie wage scale. Are those $390k salary cap #s for the rookies just place holders pending signed contracts or are they the real thing?

patsfan55

I'm starting to wonder if BB knew Light was gonna retire and we spread it out over two years to help with our cap room last year

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DaBruinz

Here is a good site run by one of our own..

New England Patriots 2012 Salary Cap

MoLewisrocks

He hasn't kept his site updated and he's just a novice who doesn't fully understand all of the nuances of the cap. I know it sucks that Jason is a Jetsfan, but he's also obviously a football fan and on par with Miguel when it comes to capology and maintenance of an up to date resource. Heck, he's maintaining 4 at a time...

MoLewisrocks

Those are just placeholders. But the contracts should be getting done within days as several teams already have most if all their guys signed. And that will be one of the best parts of the new rookie wage scale, no holdouts and more pre season assimilation and prep time for this and future rookie classes...

BlueThunder

There's a 4-5 mil discrepancy between all 3 sites. Wonder which is correct...

The dead cap hit for the Pats is 13 mil? Can you say OUCH....

Bodden,Warren and Banta Cain....BIG drain.

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jason423

Placeholders for drafted rookie. Drafted players are automatically tendered a 1 year deal when selected. But overall rookies are pretty cheap now which is why there were so many trades. The value of the top 15 picks skyrockets with the low salary.

patfanken

I think the discrepancy is because one site didn't include Light's retirement. The reality is that the Pats, right now are about $13-15MM below the cap. When you figure in the rookie contracts at about $5MM, we are in very good shape at roughly $8-10MM below the cap,

That means the Pats have plenty of money to sign Andre Carter and are under no pressure to sign Welker to a long term deal for cap purposes. Even with those results they would still have a healthy reserve for emergency signings. Then moving forward into next season, they would have a few million to roll over into next year, plus they would loose most of the $11MM of dead money they carried for this season.

Bottom Line: The Pats are in a healthy cap situation THIS season, and are likely to be in decent shape mext season.