KDPPatsfan85
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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.Where are we right now in terms of salary cap?
Where are we right now in terms of salary cap?
I don't know, it's really just guesswork until we start reading the details on what some of these recent contracts are valued at.
- - March 12: 2012 cap figure is announced to be $120.6 million
- - Pats carry over $6.7 million they didn't use from 2011
- - Pats adjusted cap number is now $127.3 million
- - Pats are one of 30 teams given $1.6 million in cap space from Washington and Dallas
- - Pats are committed to $111.1 million ($99.8 million which includes Wes Wlkers $9.515 million franchise tag, plus $11.3 million in dead cap money)
- - This gives the Pats $17.8 million in cap space entering free agency
Since then this is what the Pats have done; everyone can fill in their own numbers for what they think each player's cap number will be. Keep in mind only the top 51 contracts count towards the cap right now.
- - 2nd round tender on Brian Hoyer ($1.9 million)
- - Kyle Love tendered
- - Niko Koutovides signed ($850,000)
- - Matthew Slater signed
- - Tracy White signed
- - Jonathan Fanene signed (3 years, 12 million, $3.85 signing bonus)
- - Marcus Harrison signed
- - Steve Gregory signed
- - Dan Connolly signed
I would guess the Pats have somewhere around $8 million available right now, perhaps?
I know I'm obsessed with this, but even I am not perfect. Why were the Jets so much smarter than the Pats 'knowing' in advance that a special paragraph would later appear in the CBA allowing them to wipe out their $10M dead cap last year by cutting vets extra early by the later specified deadline?
Looks like the Pats are maybe one mid-range FA signing away from the cap without a restructure or 3.
We brought Ty Warren and Bodden back last summer hoping they could play. That's about 6million.
DB-What's up with Miguel? Is he coming back or has he retired for good? What's the story.Steven Gregory - $3 years, 8.85 million with 3.5 million guaranteed.
Tracy White - 1 year, $900K/ $300K guaranteed.
Koutouvides- I believe his contract is a vet min contract.
I won't pretend to know who the bottom 9 contracts were or the top 51 (damn I miss Miguel), but I figure they account for $3.5-5 million in total. And, yes, I figure all 9 players knocked someone out of the top 51.
Didn't Ty Warren sign a two-year deal with Denver last summer?
Didn't Ty Warren sign a two-year deal with Denver last summer?
It still doesn't get the patriots out of paying him the 3 million they owed him.
It still doesn't get the patriots out of paying him the 3 million they owed him.
I'm starting to see some more numbers......