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People who suggest that Green should be cut do not understand the cap and how cap numbers come to be.
They see $5 mil cap #!!!!! Yeow! He ain't worth it.
They don't realize that his salary is about $2 mil, not $5 mil. That a good part of the cap came from money already paid him for salary the last two years. The Pats simply paid him but didn't have that money reflect on the cap until this year. Teams do it all the time.
Not that I'm an expert or anything, but I can understand converting salary to signing bonus and how it benefits both player and team, at the cost of confusing lazy sports writers and the casual fans who listen to them.
People realize that cutting/trading Green frees up $2 million on the cap. With the team playing it tight to the cap, that money could make a difference. It's all in how people view Green.
Another aspect of this that gets overlooked is that Carter could end up taking the spot of Keegs' binky.