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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.Agree with both, Tampa simply needs to execute better, their talent is unmatched in the NFL.Edelman dropped a Cam strike dead on the money too. We hopefully learn more about the Pats receiving weapons this Sunday night.
Tampa and Brady will get better.
At this point, the most talented receivers available are loaded with issues. The Pats could get Sanu back (people loved that deal). Maybe sign TO (I heard he wants to return). Reclaim Gordon or AB?
There are reasons people teamless right now are teamless. The great players, even those asking for crazy money, have been signed. I would expect this massive cap number on the books right now for the Pats will be used to help the future with restructures (I assume that is legal), not address the present.
I assume that since it's legal to convert salary to signing bonus, it must be legal to do the opposite as well, right? Seems like it should be, at a minimum. I can't remember an instance of anyone doing it off the top of my head though, so not really sure
IF after a few more games, Newton is continuing what we saw in Week 1, why not try for a big money extension where the bulk of the cap hit is this year instead of the usual way cap hits are pushed to later years?
Use the cap space sitting there now so that Cam's cap hit the next few years is relatively low! Sounds like a better use of this year's surplus than trying to find Sanu 2.0.
wouldn't mind a real kicker, not gonna lie.
There was not one single offensive play call for Byrd.Hopefully Gunner gives us more than Byrd when he returns. I have a feeling this team will be quite active during the trade deadline.
I assume that since it's legal to convert salary to signing bonus, it must be legal to do the opposite as well, right? Seems like it should be, at a minimum. I can't remember an instance of anyone doing it off the top of my head though, so not really sure
Opt outs I think?I haven't been following the cap closely, I thought a month ago the Pats were all out of cap space. Hence the low dollar contract for Cam. Based on the latest below, how do we have so much cap space at $26M this year ??? Do the Krafts just pocket this profit if left unused. We should extend or lock up some talented young guys. Like JC Jackson. Or even extend Cam a month from now.
Players who opted out don’t receive their full salaries for the year and their contracts “toll” (I.e. 2020 becomes 2021, etc.). Hightower, Cannon, Chung, Lacosse opt outs opened up a ton of space. Plus cutting Sanu saved 6.5m.I haven't been following the cap closely, I thought a month ago the Pats were all out of cap space. Hence the low dollar contract for Cam. Based on the latest below, how do we have so much cap space at $26M this year ??? Do the Krafts just pocket this profit if left unused. We should extend or lock up some talented young guys. Like JC Jackson. Or even extend Cam a month from now.
Players who opted out don’t receive their full salaries for the year and their contracts “toll” (I.e. 2020 becomes 2021, etc.). Hightower, Chung, Lacosse opt outs opened up a ton of space. Plus cutting Sanu saved 6.5m.
Yeah, there are a ton of names who are FA. In addition to the ones you named, I’m seeing Andrews, Guy, JMac, Butler, Burkhead, and Simon as “name” FA, and Eluemunor is also up. They won’t resign all of them of course, but the money will go quick. There’s a guess that the 2021 cap could drop down to as low as 175m due to COVID. Currently they have $30m in 2021 cap space (at the 175m level). Carrying forward 20-25m from this year will help make additional space.Thanks. Ok that makes sense. A bunch of talented player opt outs created room. Might make sense to extend JC Jackson, Cam Newton, James White, Thuney, and others.