2007 and 2008 cap status as provided by Adamjt13

[Miguel]

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2007 CAP ROOM

Jacksonville $17.249 million
Tampa Bay $16.717 million
Indianapolis $14.041 million
Kansas City $13.096 million
Dallas $12.719 million
Green Bay $12.112 million
Buffalo $11.873 million
Seattle $10.787 million
Tennessee $9.501 million
New Orleans $9.330 million
Oakland $9.226 million
Carolina $9.087 million
N.Y. Jets $8.525 million
Philadelphia $8.374 million
Miami $8.011 million
Cleveland $7.108 million
San Francisco $6.070 million
New England $5.796 million
Atlanta $5.775 million
St. Louis $5.497 million
Denver $5.206 million
San Diego $4.305 million
Baltimore $3.929 million
Arizona $2.478 million
Minnesota $2.140 million
Pittsburgh $2.074 million
Detroit $2.054 million
Cincinnati $1.913 million
Houston $1.828 million
Washington $1.427 million
N.Y. Giants $1.199 million
Chicago $902,547



2008 CAP COMMITMENT (with number of players under contract in
parentheses)

Tennessee (34) $71.842 million
San Diego (44) $79.729 million
Buffalo (44) $81.177 million
Cincinnati (44) $81.268 million
Jacksonville (42) $82.263 million
San Francisco (46) $83.472 million
New Orleans (37) $84.076 million
Arizona (36) $86.531 million
Dallas (40) $88.593 million
Miami (40) $88.622 million
N.Y. Giants (46) $89.156 million
Oakland (40) $90.133 million
Cleveland (41) $90.306 million
Houston (38) $90.951 million
Detroit (40) $91.488 million
Tampa Bay (47) $92.869 million
Kansas City (43) $94.132 million
Green Bay (47) $94.506 million
Chicago (49) $94.857 million
Pittsburgh (39) $95.017 million
Denver (41) $95.279 million
Minnesota (45) $95.794 million
Philadelphia (48) $96.051 million
N.Y. Jets (43) $98.231 million
Seattle (41) $102.206 million
St. Louis (38) $103.059 million
Indianapolis (42) $104.561 million
New England (42) $105.131 million
Atlanta (47) $108.861 million
Carolina (34) $109.899 million
Baltimore (42) $110.014 million
Washington (45) $136.270 million


My note - The 2008 cap is projected to be $116,134,000. I believe that the above numbers are of 9/25/2007 - the date of Adam's post. My 2007 numbers for the Pats are off by $2.1 million. I have them under the cap by $7.9 million when they are actually under the cap by $5.8 million. I believe that there are Patriots with unreported roster bonuses/ LTBE incentives that are causing this difference.

 

[The Boston Patriot]

Those are some amazing numbers. You have to hand it to Indy with the
amount of cap room they have and the team they have put together. The
other interesting (from my point) is how the Jets, with that much cap space,
could have screwed over Kendall, especially in light of how bad that team
sucks.

 

[jct]

Should be an opportunity to trade with Washington as they are up against the Cap.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Should be an opportunity to trade with Washington as they are up against the Cap.

Umm . . . what tradeable players does Washington have that other teams (especially the Patriots) would want?

 

[khayos]

Umm . . . what tradeable players does Washington have that other teams (especially the Patriots) would want?

Jansen ???

 

[mgteich]

Our focus in the next off season will be on the defensive backfield and linebacker. The receiver situation will sort itself out, but we enough under contract.

Linebacker Seau and Bruschi are in the last year of their contracts with little behind them.

The secondary has the following players in their last year
CORNERS: Samuel, Gay, Scott
SAFETIES: Wilson and Mitchell

We certainly hope Harrison will be able to be counted on for the 2008 season.

 

[NE39]

Jansen ???

Jon Jansen is on IR with a dislocated ankle.

 

[jct]

Umm . . . what tradeable players does Washington have that other teams (especially the Patriots) would want?

We could trade them players in exchange for draft picks.
They must make moves to sign those future picks...
Their cap is spent on 45 players.
Lets help them out and help ourself at the same time.

 

[BelichickFan]

Those are some amazing numbers. You have to hand it to Indy with the amount of cap room they have and the team they have put together.

They're doing it with twice as many first year players as the average team - let's see if they get burned by that by the end of the season.

 

[solman]

Those are some amazing numbers. You have to hand it to Indy with the
amount of cap room they have and the team they have put together. The
other interesting (from my point) is how the Jets, with that much cap space,
could have screwed over Kendall, especially in light of how bad that team
sucks.

Just this season Indy has created cap room by:

1. Restructuring Peyton's contract
2. Signing Freeney (previously Franchised) to a massively backloaded contract
3. Losing Tarik Glenn to retirement

Without these moves, Indy would have negative cap space.

#1 and #2 had no impact on their talent, but had the effect of pushing cap space from this season into future seasons.

#3 had a negative impact on their talent (but no future salary cap consequences).

I would hardly characterize these moves as genius.

 

[Urgent]

Eight teams with more than $10mm in cap space this season? That's amazing. I wonder if they set out to spend so little relative to the cap.

In the case of the Colts, why structure the Manning and Freeney contracts with higher out year requirements if they have $14mm in space now?

This is just as strange as the first few years of the cap, when every team was way over.

It also means that the agents didn't do a particularly good job. With so many teams holding so much available cap space, agents probably could have withheld players longer to push bidding higher.

 

[Bo0MeR]

Just this season Indy has created cap room by:

1. Restructuring Peyton's contract
2. Signing Freeney (previously Franchised) to a massively backloaded contract
3. Losing Tarik Glenn to retirement

Without these moves, Indy would have negative cap space.

#1 and #2 had no impact on their talent, but had the effect of pushing cap space from this season into future seasons.

#3 had a negative impact on their talent (but no future salary cap consequences).

I would hardly characterize these moves as genius.

Cap hell has "always" been coming for the Colts, just hasn't gotten here . Polian know whats he's doing, every year the Colts make smart moves and teams wonder why they never seem to get closer to cap hell. They also have the youngest team in the league, a higher amount of cap room than most of teams, and are the defending champs. Not bad managment

 

[moosekill]

The only problem is they have a huge percentage of their cap tied up in a few players. As long as they are healthy that is fine, but if anything happens to them, they are screwed. But they were quite healthy last year and it worked for them.

 

[mgteich]

Both the patriots and the colts have one player they cannot afford to ahve injured. After that, they both do incredibly well with cap, and have done so for the entire decade. This continue for both teams through 2009 season (the end of the decade).

The only problem is they have a huge percentage of their cap tied up in a few players. As long as they are healthy that is fine, but if anything happens to them, they are screwed. But they were quite healthy last year and it worked for them.