Report: NFL Salary Cap will be $120 Million

[Rayman]

lol what the fuck is Dallas going to do?

We'll be perfectly fine. Jerrah actually planned for this. The highest contracts on the team are easily reconstructed.

For instance, Miles Austin's salary this year is like 8.4M and 2.14 or something like that next year (I can get the numbers later). Romo and others have similar deals.

They should be able to reconstruct those contracts, and still be able to cut dead weight and re-sign Doug Free with room to spare.

[dave]

Tampa will need to give Asomugha a $43 million/year deal.

[Survivor]

Tampa will need to give Asomugha a $43 million/year deal.

http://www.bucsnation.com/2011/7/15/2277197/salary-cap-floor-buccaneers-tampa-bay

The Bucs won't have to do shit.

Under Floor ---------------- $43 million
Re-sign Davin Joseph ------ ($19 million)
Franchise Tag Barrett Ruud - ($10 million)
Re-sign Cadillac Williams ---- ($4 million)
Re-sign Quincy Black ------- ($5 million)
Re-sign Adam Hayword ----- ($4 million)
Re-sign Tanard Jackson ---- ($1 million)
WE'RE CLEARRRRRR!!

[j.hen]

Falcons have room to resign at least 2/3 of their FA offensive linemen and then turn around and sign Ray Edwards.

[Rayman]

We'll be perfectly fine. Jerrah actually planned for this. The highest contracts on the team are easily reconstructed.

For instance, Miles Austin's salary this year is like 8.4M and 2.14 or something like that next year (I can get the numbers later). Romo and others have similar deals.

They should be able to reconstruct those contracts, and still be able to cut dead weight and re-sign Doug Free with room to spare.

Just to clarify this point, after conferring with someone in the know:

Dallas can restructure the contracts of Austin, Romo, and Ware easily without making any further moves and have a cap number of $119 Million.

Also, they could save about $25 more million in cap space by cutting (these are the five most likely candidates) Marion Barber, Marc Colombo, Terence Newman, Roy Williams, and Bigg Davis.

That's the absolute "blood-letting" scenario as far as cuts. I think the most likely guys to go are Barber and Colombo. Williams could go, but my understanding is the financials don't make sense to cut him for another year because the cap savings would be minimal. As far as Newman and Davis, yeah, they have high cap figures, but you have no viable replacements for either guy and they can still produce at a somewhat high level.

To cut all five would put them at about $96 million with a few positions to fill.

Slashing Barber and Columbo saves you $9.25 million at least. After restructures, that leaves Dallas around $109.75 million. (not the exact figure, bear with me. This shit is complicated)

The draft choices would take about $5 Million at most to sign. $114.75 million.

Doug Free's gotta get paid, will be interesting to see what he gets. I doubt he takes up the last ~6 mil of money. Re-sign Kyle Kosier as well.

All of that said, my understanding is that $120 Million is anything but a hard number.

So yeah, sorry to burst that bubble, but the Dallas Cowboys are not blowing up their roster, and they're not going to cut anyone that wasn't going to be replaced already. Not only are they in good shape as currently constituted, but if they wanted to throw money at Asomugha (not that I want them to), they'd be covered as they would most definitely be cutting Newman in that case.

[EmpireWF]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Labor-Update-2011-salary-cap-set-at-120-millio?urn=nfl-wp3408

"teams will have three days to re-sign their own free agents starting on June 25, and with the free-agent target point bringing the fourth accrued player season as opposed to the six-year window in 2010, there will be many more players on the open market. Teams like the Carolina Panthers may have to spend more than $40 million just to hit that required floor"

"The bottom line with the new cap/cash structure is that you can expect to see many more front-loaded contracts to meet those numbers, and most likely a situation where contract figures and actual player costs are far more similar than they have been in a long time.

[killgod]

Not hitting the floor isn't such a big deal for teams. They'd simply have to pay the difference between their salary total and the floor to their own players. Either way they are spending 108M on their roster, but with that as the penalty they don't have to tie themselves into bloated contracts over multiple years.