Blecher Report: Salary Cap Analysis

[patrickstillhere]

Projected Total Salary for Players in 2013: $132 million

Projected Dead Money (dead money is money resulting in the termination of contracts such as that of Terrence Newman): Approximately $6.5 million

League Collusion Penalty: $5 million

Projected Total Cap Spent: $143.5 million

NFL Projected Cap Limit in 2013: $121 million

Available Cowboys Cap Space: -$22.5 million



Bad Contracts Cowboys Should Look to Move:

Miles Austin: 7 years, $57,168,000

2013 Cap Hit: $8.3 million





Jay Ratliff: 7 years, $48,625,000

2013 Cap Hit: $7 million




Doug Free: 4 years, $32 million

2013 Cap Hit: $11,150,000


Orlando Scandrick: 6 years, $28.2 million

2013 Cap Hit: $3,780,000





Contracts the Cowboys Can Restructure:

Tony Romo: 6 years, $67.4 million

2013 Cap Hit: $17,228,000 (figure calculated with $5,728,000 option bonus)



Brandon Carr: 5 years, $50.1 million

2013 Cap Hit: $16.3 million

[xwalker]

This is all meaningless until cuts and restructures are done.

The projected dead-money at this time is 2M vs 29.77M in 2012.

Brandon Carr's restructure will save about 10.5M.

Cutting Free will save 7M.

A new contract for Romo will cut his cap hit to nearly 1/2 of the current amount.

Please, Please, Please, can the mods put a filter for Bleacher Report.