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I just hopped on the Ravens site to check out the cap situation. Ray Ricee is gettng a new contract and they know there are going to be some serious cap casualties if they sign Flacco to a 14 to 17 million a year contract. Many are suggesting losing at last 2 or the 5 starters on there O-line. There team is definitely going ot look different next year.......
Ray Rice's deal started last season, as he was one whose franchise tag deal went all the way down to the July 16th deadline. They agreed on a 5 yr/40 million dollar deal on the last day of July 16th, which then took away the franchise tag number on a longer term deal.
And Flacco, his agents, and his camp are claiming that he actually had a better season than any of the "elite" QBs like Brees, Brady, Manning etc, so he should be paid above the 20 million dollar mark. At least that is their argument anyway, good luck to them.
If they're over 5 million on the cap number right now and they haven't even took Flacco's deal into account, they will certainly have to get creative with some moves. What extent that will have on their future remains to be seen, and I'm sure that there will be some casualties somewhere. That said, we've also seen plenty of teams shave off 10-15 million off their hit in a period of a couple of days, and I'm sure they'll want to do everything they can to retain Anquan Boldin for at least another year or two. It wouldn't be like he'd be the first guy to go.
I'm doubting that Boldin will be going anywhere myself just yet, but it definitely bears an attentive eye.