I spent hours yesterday correlating a bunch of sites and trying to account for the Patriots reported cap number.
1. Miguel's site was last updated 8/13/2011, hope he is OK.
2. NY Jets cap site didn't have all of our players accounted for and had several players listed below the league minimum salary based on their years of experience (mostly toward the bottom of the roster)
3. Googled just about every player on the roster looking for contract details.
As near as I can figure we have 52 players signed so far. I did list all the players recently signed to futures contracts.
A couple of players (Lousaka Polite and Donald Thomas) I listed at $525,000 instead of their salaries since I think they both qualify for the veteran's exemption.
I'm within a few hundred thousand of the Maimi Sentinel figure.
Also, Profootballtalk just had a story indicating the Patriots can automatically carry forward their unused cap space from this season which they listed as $6.66 million. It is likely that several Patriots earned incentives which will be paid and count towards the 2011 cap reducing the amount we can carry forward.
Give it a look and let me know if you spot anything inaccurate or missing. Not sure I got all the 2012 dead money.
New England Patriots 2012 Salary Cap