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This move certainly makes the secondary better doesn't it.
Can it get any worse then 32nd in the league?
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Would not be surprised if Bodden asked to be released. Honestly, that is the only thing that really makes sense to me..
Can it get any worse then 32nd in the league?
Sanders isn't even getting on the field anymore in Atlanta.
It's possible, but I think it comes down to cap savings. Bodden was getting paid the 2nd most on the team (after Brady), but he was our #3/4 CB. He wasn't living up to his contract so he got cut. Not sure what BB will do with the money at this point in the season, but he has it now.
Shaun Ellis is probably next given the cap number to productivity measure.
I don't think so. Check the depth charts of their respective teams.
It's possible, but I think it comes down to cap savings. Bodden was getting paid the 2nd most on the team (after Brady), but he was our #3/4 CB. He wasn't living up to his contract so he got cut. Not sure what BB will do with the money at this point in the season, but he has it now.
Shaun Ellis is probably next given the cap number to productivity measure.
Who knows? Next man up...
/SHRUG
I checked the stats from Pro-Football-Reference.com, and used their data. They're usually excellent on this. Someone posted links to NFL.com refuting some of that data, and I'll take the NFL.com data as correct. It changes my point a bit on a per-player basis, but it doesn't really matter overall.
Meriweather was playing a lot in Chicago until the team got smoked and Lovie scapegoated his safeties. Butler's starting in Carolina. Wilhite's playing, and getting starts, in Denver. Sanders was playing in Atlanta, but someone said his time had diminished, and he apparently either aggravated an earlier injury or suffered another one. Whether one is related to the other or not, I don't know. No matter how you slice it, though, the players have gotten their time and haven't just been a bunch of benchwarmers.
What you fail to mention is Butler and Wilhite are both playing on two win teams. If they were getting reps on the Packers or the 49ers than this would be a different story.
As for Meriweather, he was terrible here and we was terrible with the Bears. He got benched one, because his play is awful and two, because he's a safety concern. The guy's been talked to the league on multiple occasions about his reckless tackling.
Maybe we will be able to add Bodden to the list of secondary cuts now riding the pine for other teams - Wilhite, Meriwhether, Sanders, Butler.
Actually, Salary wise, Bodden had the second highest salary at $3.9 million. He also had the 2nd highest salary cap hit at $5.5 Million. However, all that money is gone unless someone claims him off waivers. They don't free up any money.
According to Miguel's site, we would have saved $3,450,000 if we cut him at the beginning of this year. So if we prorate that we save about $2,000,000 this year.
A good chunk of change right there. Any way you cut it, Bodden was horrendously overpaid.
No he's a vested vet, his contract is guaranteed this year. Pats save nothing this year from cutting him now. He might be overpaid now but when the Pats extended him he was playing really well... He was our best corner.
I can tell you one thing... time to add a CB into your mock drafts hahah
2011 Cap Hit if Cut 2011 Cap Savings if Cut or Traded 2012 Cap Hit if Cut or Traded
TDELETED b/c they were mayo's #'s check patscap.com for the 3 some odd million eah year we are on the hook for.
we are only on the hook for the 2011 cap hit right??? We save 3.2 plus million of space b/c of this move
he is off our books for 2012 since he is cut NOW right?