We have cap room if we want.
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from Miguel,
Please note that I will soon be doing a two-part series that will be answering these two questions:
1.) Why is the Patriots cap space number so low?
2.) What can the Patriots do to increase their cap space?
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There is lots that we can do, presuming that we give the player a small sweetener for accelerating his compensation. Gilmore seems most likely, freeing up over $5M in cap space.
We'll hear from Miguel, but I think that the top candidates for restructures are Brady, Gilmore, McCourty, Gronkowksi, and Hightower. We could free up $20M. Of course, we would have to account for it in future years, spread over the each of the contracts. In addition, monies could be freed up through extensions, Gostkowski comes to mind.