2009 Cap Pages are up

[Miguel]

I just need to finish updating the capfootnotes page.

Miguel's UNOFFICIAL 2009 Patriots Salary Cap Information Page

 

[Kontradiction]

Thanks, Miguel. Awesome work as always.

 

[VrabelMayeWin]

I'm surprised to see that we're no longer upside down on some big name contracts. I am NOT advocating this but if we traded or cut Brady, Light, Seymour, Faulk, Vrabel we would save $18.5M on the cap. As I said, I don't want to trade or cut a single one of them but now that their contracts are no longer upside down some surprises could happen.

 

[spacecrime]

I just need to finish updating the capfootnotes page.

Miguel's UNOFFICIAL 2009 Patriots Salary Cap Information Page

Excellent job as usual. Thanks.

 

[BradyManny]

I'm surprised to see that we're no longer upside down on some big name contracts. I am NOT advocating this but if we traded or cut Brady, Light, Seymour, Faulk, Vrabel we would save $18.5M on the cap. As I said, I don't want to trade or cut a single one of them but now that their contracts are no longer upside down some surprises could happen.

We'd save that much - but there'd be an awful lot of dead money for the big two. 9+ milli for TB, 6 milli for Seymour. The other three guys are affordable to cut/trade, but as you say, we wouldn't want to anyway.

 

[Rob0729]

Thanks Miguel.

The strangest thing I saw is that Jarvis Green has the sixth highest cap hit. I don't know if he is worth holding onto with a $5 million cap hit, but then again I don't know if the $2.5 million cap savings is enough to cut him either especially if Mike Wright signs somewhere else. I guess if Wright is resigned, they might have to make a hard decision on Green. He did have a down year, but it might have been due to injury.

 

[Rob0729]

We'd save that much - but there'd be an awful lot of dead money for the big two. 9+ milli for TB, 6 milli for Seymour. The other three guys are affordable to cut/trade, but as you say, we wouldn't want to anyway.

Yeah, the non-cap year makes it even harder to cut players with a lot of dead money because you cannot split it over two years.

 

[Joker]

Thanx Miguel...as usual..year in and year out, your work stands alone.

BTW a check is on its way in the morning to your sister's efforts...a small drop in the bucket, but if for a few more drops there could be a rainstorm

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Thanks Miguel,

I noticed that the dead cap space is only $600K. How does this compare ( at this point of the year) to past years? I know that in the last few years, the it has eaten up 6-12% of the cap with $5-12 million allocated to players no longer on the team but that was at the end of the year.
I realize that this is prior to any surprise cuts or unexpected retirements but it would seem that this gives the Pats more leeway than in years past especially with potentially spending more money than normal on the QB position.

 

[NE_PATS_FAN_54]

We'd save that much - but there'd be an awful lot of dead money for the big two. 9+ milli for TB, 6 milli for Seymour. The other three guys are affordable to cut/trade, but as you say, we wouldn't want to anyway.

the most cap friendly guy to cut would be faulk. they would save about 3.5 million if they did. but im not sure if he would re-sign with them if he got cut. hes a pretty valuable member of the team.

 

[Miguel]

Thanks Miguel,

I noticed that the dead cap space is only $600K. How does this compare ( at this point of the year) to past years?

It is much smaller than it has been in the past.

 

[Rob0729]

BTW, it may be time to give guys like Vrabel and Faulk an extension. Their cap hits are high for their roles and/or value. Give them extensions and you can probably cut their cap hits almost in half. Both are at about $4 million.

 

[mgteich]

The team has to make decisions on lots of folks whose contracts expire in 2009. Any of the following might be considered for extension: Vrabel, Faulk, Wilfork, Seymour, Manikins, Kaczur, Green and Hobbs.

Extended Vrabel and Faulk would actually lower their 2009 cap. The issue is whether the team is willing to commit to beyond 2009.

There will likely be enough 2009 cap money available to extend all those who agree to an extension. After all, none of the current group of patriots free agents will take serious money to re-sign with the possible exception of Wright, but even he would likely end up with a cap hit of no more than $3M ($1M salary and a $10M bonus).