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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Plus Koppen's earlier with some moved to next year there, it sounds like they were able to move $3-$5M into next year. Now if they can just find someone to take their money next yearThey did restructure one contract of a player (not known at this time) to help future cap numbers.
Remember the cap is set at $109M for next season and we are reportedly around $30M under heading into 2007.
But until every dime of that 2007 $109M is spent, we'll be suffused here with posts lamenting the Krafts' cheapness and front office stupidity.[/QUOTE
Dead nuts on...amazing isn't it?
The Kraft's save football for New England, keep the team in Foxboro, build the stadium with their own money and no PSL'S, bring us a first class organization all the way complete with a dynasty no less......but, certain ungratefull schmucks in here feel the need to call them cheap OR cite their sucessses after the fact.
It is real easy to tell us how much the franchise is worth now and how rich they are today, AFTER they put it all on the line and took the risk when they needed to.
It appears that they did use most, if not all their cap money - I wonder where and how it all ends up going.
But until every dime of that 2007 $109M is spent, we'll be suffused here with posts lamenting the Krafts' cheapness and front office stupidity.
For me, it is not a matter of cheap. It is a matter of spending 2006 cap monies in 2008, 2009 and 2010 instead of in 2006. There weren't enough players available that met our value proposition in 2006. The same will likely be the case in 2007. Hopefully, there will be more extensions that are not backloaded as was previously the practice.
Before the flames, I have no doubt that the FO will make more than reasonable offers to all our high-priority free agents. Unfortunately, that fact alone doesn't put any players on the 2007 squad.
I know teh Krafts have been good for the team and with private financing they deserve any penny they can squeeze.
I was just shaking the trees to see if missed something that might have
happened.
Guess Graham and Asante will have to wait until offseason!!!
$30MM should be able to get us some FAs too!!!
Did I miss something or don't we lose our money under the 2006 cap with the new year.
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I suspect that a lot of incentives in many palyers contracts based on making the playoffs have just been met.
Not sure what yo mean by "money under cap gone"
That would seem to indicate they spent it somehow ... so it's gone.
If they haven't spent it then the phyical money is not gone it's
still in the Patriots pockets ... right?
It would be nice to know what happened to the last $3.5M.
Kraft promished it would be spent.
You want them to find a player who's worth exactly 3.5 million just so they can say the money's spent?
Well, we have people who complain that Kraft is cheap. And we have people who complain about the people who complain that Kraft is cheap.The camp who complains about people allegedly saying "Kraft is cheap" seem 10 times as vocal and prominent as the people actually saying Kraft is cheap.
Well, we have people who complain that Kraft is cheap. And we have people who complain about the people who complain that Kraft is cheap.
And now we have people who complain about the people who complain about the people who complain that Kraft is cheap.
And you guessed it: I am starting a group of people who complain about the people who complain about the people who complain about the people who complain that Kraft is cheap.
Any complaints about this?