MoLewisrocks

We remain at $10.87M under pending Hightower signing.

Available salary-cap space for all 32 NFL teams - NFL.com

PatsWickedPissah

Why is Pioli sitting on all that cash in KC?
Problem is we don't know how many essential expensive players each team has that are needed to be extended etc. this season. Or those that come due next year such that rolling millions fwd is the thing to do.

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MoLewisrocks

I think the predicted flat caps through 2014 are ample reason to be rolling as much cap forward as possible. Teams that can't will be in some distress just from the simple yearly increases inherent in many contracts. And you can only postpone absorbing those so long. And if you push them too far forward by the time the cap does begin to increase in 2015 you will already have spent it...

mayoclinic

It's pretty impressive. So far this year the Pats have:

1. Tendered RFA QB Brain Hoyer at a 2nd round level
2. Signed UFA RB Joseph Addai
3. Signed UFA FB Ted Larsen to a 2 year deal
4. Signed UFA FB Tony Fiammetta
5. Used the franchise tag on WR Wes Welker
6. Signed UFA WR Brandon Lloyd to a 3 year deal
7. Signed UFA WR Jabar Gaffney to a 2 year deal
8. Re-signed UFA WR Deion Branch
9. Signed UFA WR Donte Stallworth
10. Signed UFA WR Jesse Holley
11. Signed 7th round WR Jeremy Ebert
12. Extended TE Rob Gronkowski through 2019 in a $54M mega-deal
13. Signed UFA TE Daniel Fells to a 3 year deal
14. Claimed TE Jake Ballard off waivers
15. Re-signed UFA OC Dan Koppen
16. Re-signed UFA OG/C Dan Connolly to a 3 year deal
17. Signed UFA OT/OG Robert Gallery
18. Re-signed ERFA DT Kyle Love
19. Signed UFA DE/DT Jonathan Fanene to a 3 year deal
20. Signed UFA DE Travis Scott
21. Signed 1st round DE Chandler Jones
22. Signed 3rd round DE Jake Bequette
23. Signed UFA LB Bobby Carpenter
24. Re-signed UFA LB Tracy White
25. Re-signed UDFA LB Niko Koutovides
26. Signed UFA DB Steve Gregory
27. Signed UFA DB Will Allen
28. Signed UFA DB Marquice Cole
29. Signed 2nd round DB Tavon Wilson
30. Signed 6th round DB Nate Ebner
31. Signed 7th round DB Alfonzo Dennard
32. Signed All Pro ST/WR Matt Slater to a 3 year deal
33. Signed UDFAs Markus Zusevics, Jeremiah Warren, Brandon Bolden, Brad Herman, Matt Roark, Marcus Forston and Justin Francis

And they are still almost $11M under the cap, 11th most of all teams in the NFL. And I've probably left off a few signings (I've excluding guys signed and since cut, such as Anthony Gonzales and Bo Scaife). The only major moves on the horizon would be signing Dont'a Hightower and possibly re-signing UFA DE Andre Carter.

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signbabybrady

We are 11th but closer to the bottom then the top.

Some of that will likely go to Carter and after that your looking at slightly higher than a normal buffer for emergency in season replacements.

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mayoclinic

Not really. If you exclude Jacksonville as an outlier (and statistically they are way outside the curve) then the Pats are quite a bit closer to the top than to the bottom. And if you consider the serious playoff contenders, only Green Bay is in comparable cap shape. Baltimore, New Orleans, Atlanta, San Diego, the Giants, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago and Houston all have $4M (roughly) or less of cap room. The Ravens have virtually no cap space, with Ray Rice a holdout and Joe Flacco wanting a big contract.

The Pats have been one of the most active teams in the NFL this offseason, adn they are in very good cap shape. It's an impressive.

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MoLewisrocks

Only problem is they did it largely by restructuring Brady to the tune of $10.8M in bonus and salary converted to signing bonus thus pushing $3.6M per into 2013 and 2014 resulting in remaining cap hits of $21.8M per... Which makes it impossible to tag him once let alone twice down the home stretch and makes it pretty much imperative they get an extension done next Spring.

mayoclinic

That's 100% true. But do you really think that Brady and the team won't work something out? Brady's has the perfect situation from a football perspective, and he's too smart and too rich to mess it up. He restructured willingly, as he's done many times. I can see the media playing that situation up, but I really can't envision any likelihood of Brady going elsewhere as a UFA.

I think that if you are going to build a perennial contender in today's NFL then you need (1) certain impact players to be willing to take favorable deals - lucrative perhaps, but still favorable, and (2) a bunch of guys to be willing to accept roles within the context of the team instead of maximizing their personal stats. The Pats seem to be doing as good a job of achieving those 2 things as anyone in the NFL.

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Ivan

I still have a gut feeling that Belichick is going to make a trade for a significant player if the opportunity presents itself, a veteran with a big salary on a weaker team such as a Jared Allen. I think that like the 2007 move for Moss he wants to put them completely over the top and dominate the league.

jmt57

They were waaaay under during the uncapped year too if I recall correctly. I'm guessing that's a directive from ownership.