Salary Cap

ESPN quotes us as being 976k under the cap as of Tuesday. Talk about being up against it. What are we going to do to afford a #2 pick and the other draftees.

We could cut players and take the hit or once again restructure more freaking contracts. \

We'll hit June 1st before our first few picks signs, which will help but really we are all over the cap.

I hate this shit.... lose more players or dig the hole a bit deeper.

 

There'll both cuts and restructuring done. It's the nature of the beast. Prime candidates for cuts are Jay Williams and Brenston Buckner. I'm sure we'll thin the herd at CB also, but without much savings. The Cap Doctor, mVm, would know most of the particulars on cutting who saves us what though.

 

Possible cuts: Buckner, Donalley, Tuten. Moose, Steussie are the ones to restructure, I guess.

In the end though, I'd have to see what we have at end before we cut Williams.
It may have to come down to us hoping someone like Marco Coleman gets cut if we draft Jammer first. Coleman's making $3 mil and has background with Trgovac.

 

Panthers | Cap Note - posted at KFFL (http://nfl.kffl.com)
11:43 PT: The Charlotte Observer reports the Carolina Panthers are about $721,000 below the 2002 salary cap. RB Tshimanga Biakabutuka, CB Doug Evans, QB Jeff Lewis, DT Tim Morabito, DE Jason Peter and DE Chuck Smith are still counting for about $9.9 million in "dead money."



Ain't that some shit.... next year we'll be better though.... next year will be better

 

Of that list, I think only Evans will count against the cap next year. TB and Peter were in the last year of their contracts, Morabito, Lewis, and Smith were cut last year and if memory serves me correctly, the bonus is split over two years. Now on the otherhand that fact does mean it's the last call for Gilbert. Hot Damn!

 

None of them count against next year actually. Evans would count if he were cut in June, but wasn't since it's not June yet

Gilbert can't possibly renegotiate his way out of a $6.5 mil salary next year.

 

Evans won't count against next year's cap. Only players cut after June 1st that have unaccounted for bonus money will count. We cut a lot of big money last pre-season. I don't see that happening this year.

Buckner, Donnaley, Tuten, and Williams are possilbe cuts, and I think all but * edit (Donnaley, not Tuten) are Free Agents next year anyway. Of those 4, possibly only one or two goes, and I'm not sure if I'd charachterize any, save perhaps Donnaley, as a salary cap move.

 

So in otherwords we can afford to resign Rucker without doing too much damage capwise. How much more do the other guys save us Piper?

 

If we double up on DEs, we may just cut Williams to save a cool 2 million. If not, we will probably just ask him to take a pay cut, and if he doesn't, we will look for a guy off the street.

Buckner and Tuten are like 700K each.

I forget what Donnaley's salary is this year. He'd be the only guy with dead money.

 

What about Hitchcock come to think of it, KFFL nor the Observer counted him in the dead money or was this the last year of his contract? More money in the bank for next year?