Sami84
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his contract wasnt much.
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his contract wasnt much.
rmcjacket23
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We also only have between $4-5M in cap space right now, meaning if we signed a player in that price range, we'd need to restructure contracts or cut players in order to get more cap space just to sign draft picks.
We are doing some minor restructures and Brian M. opines that we're probably around $10M right now, for what that's worth.
he is smart not to sign the tag. He wants to keep some leverage.
Sami84
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Damn, i wish we paid Za'darius last year :/
cobrajet
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Hey guys, I admit I don't know much about Michael Brockers. His he an upgrade on our d-line over Michael Pierce? I have no idea how these two compare or how excited I should be. I know the Campbell trade was a big upgrade to our d-line but I would like to hear how the swap of Pierce for Brockers compares.
Sami84
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Ideally i'd have kept pierce and got rid of B will
Consider brockers an upgrade over wormley.
Pierce
Brockers
Campbell
looks much better. People forget how elite Pierce has been for us and his ''down year'' was still better than what B will has done for the most part
Very consistent run stopper and is able to create pressures every so often.
rmcjacket23
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And that's fine... we have no details on the restructures. Its been expected that they'd look to convert salaries for Earl and Marcus (or both) into bonuses to free up some space, but hadn't heard any details.
That being said, $10M in space is practically nothing. Basically allows you for one mid-price signing with like a $4-5M cap hit, and then the rest you have to keep to the side for draft picks, rule of 51 elimination, etc.
Sami84
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Chris Canty 2.0 basically. Borderline Pro Bowl player.
Not even close to doable money wise though.
Sami84
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if only we never gave b will that ridiculous contract...
Oh agreed. It's not much, but as you said, it does support a mid-level signing and maybe 1 or 2 lower level types. Would anticipate a couple more restructures.
rmcjacket23
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rmcjacket23
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Peters and Thomas are basically the only two players on the roster who I can see actually get a restructure, where they'd convert salary into bonus and get some cap savings.
The only other player who you could potentially do it on is Brandon Williams, though he only has one year left after this year, so you really wouldn't save that much, and you'd just be ballooning his cap hit in 2021 to a level where you may not be able to realistically move on from him either.
There's nobody else on the roster with a contract that I see that would really do anything in terms of a restructure. Anything else would likely require an extension, ala Sam Koch.
rmcjacket23
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If they were both on the open market today, Williams would still get more money than Pierce in FA.
Williams got $3M more a year like 3 years ago than Pierce got yesterday. That's a pretty good indication of how the league values those two players.
cdp
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No, you can only be traded once you actually have signed the tag.