Releasing Maclin and Howard saves $8.5 mil. We're not keeping Carr either - another $3.5 mil.
Add to that the fact that we are scheduled to have some available cap to start as well as the scheduled increase in the salary cap and that we likely save some cap next year by extending CJ and jimmy (yes even still) and given how much we were able to do this year in free agency even with less cap space I feel optimistic about being able to re sign guys or sign free agents