Our Cap Spending Has to Change Soon

[CoCo]

Doesn't it?

There has been little worry over our cap situation since the early 2000's. Seems like after that purge we stayed ahead of the curve for quite some time. That window seems to be closing. That is what adding salaries like Bigg, Roy, Newman, Ware, Barber, Miles, etc will eventually do. At least half of those no longer pull their cap weight (if they ever did).

Here comes Doug Free's big payday and we have designs on adding some FA's to boot. Not to mention Kosier, Spears, Bowen & Hatcher some of which we'll need to retain.

Yes we can purge some of the above but few will save us any significant $ for 2011.

I'm not panicking. But I am saying we're running out of room to carry our past mistakes going forward. We can't keep having those guys in red above near the top of our cap hit list. They are barely part of the present and most definitely not part of the future. Changing of the guard coming soon.

 

[SDCowboy]

What's scary is Tony and Witten's contracts years are also right around the corner as well.

 

[CoCo]

What's scary is Tony and Witten's contracts years are also right around the corner as well.

I think Spencer is up next year. Felix & Jenkins must be right behind them. Man that Roy Williams mistake was as costly as it gets (I hope ).

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Doesn't it?

There has been little worry over our cap situation since the early 2000's. Seems like after that purge we stayed ahead of the curve for quite some time. That window seems to be closing. That is what adding salaries like Bigg, Roy, Newman, Ware, Barber, Miles, etc will eventually do. At least half of those no longer pull their cap weight (if they ever did).

Here comes Doug Free's big payday and we have designs on adding some FA's to boot. Not to mention Kosier, Spears, Bowen & Hatcher some of which we'll need to retain.

Yes we can purge some of the above but few will save us any significant $ for 2011.

I'm not panicking. But I am saying we're running out of room to carry our past mistakes going forward. We can't keep having those guys in red above near the top of our cap hit list. They are barely part of the present and most definitely not part of the future. Changing of the guard coming soon.

We are not in a bad cap space situation. We will need to get a little better at developing young OL players but I don't think we are in terrible shape. You figure that MB3's salary is probably coming off the books this year. Either Kosier's or Bigg's salary will be moved, Colombo's salary, possibly Newman's salary, IDK. We will have some cap to spend in FA. It will not be the kind of money that we just go out and spend crazy money but we will be able to get safety help and probably a decent Guard. We really need our young CBs to return to form and we need our DEs and Spencer to step up and play good football for us.

 

[perrykemp]

It could be worse....

The Cowboys and the Packers spent the most on salaries last year.

With the Cowboys, at 6-10, at least you know we have some dead wood / unperforming - overpaid veterans that can be paired off of the salary.

The Packers, on the hand, a boatload of young talented players coming up on their contract year (Jermichael Finley, Josh Sitton, Matthews has one year left after this one, etc).

What will they do when they are already at the top of the cap AND you have a bunch of big contracts you want to do in the future....

 

[SDCowboy]

I think Spencer is up next year. Felix & Jenkins must be right behind them. Man that Roy Williams mistake was as costly as it gets (I hope ).

Aren't both Tony and Witten going into their final years next season ('12)?

 

[Hoofbite]

What's scary is Tony and Witten's contracts years are also right around the corner as well.

I'm not worried about either of them.

They are both smart, have made a bunch of money, will make more without needing to go to the highest bidder and are guys who don't appear to have dollar signs as their #1 priority.

Under no circumstance do I see Witten taking a snap in another team's uniform.

That would probably be one of the most frustrating things I could think of.

 

[speedkilz88]

It could be worse....

The Cowboys and the Packers spent the most on salaries last year.

With the Cowboys, at 6-10, at least you know we have some dead wood / unperforming - overpaid veterans that can be paired off of the salary.

The Packers, on the hand, a boatload of young talented players coming up on their contract year (Jermichael Finley, Josh Sitton, Matthews has one year left after this one, etc).

What will they do when they are already at the top of the cap AND you have a bunch of big contracts you want to do in the future....

The reason the Cowboys spent so much was they were smart and used an uncapped year to lock up some of their players long term.

 

[CoCo]

We are not in a bad cap space situation. We will need to get a little better at developing young OL players but I don't think we are in terrible shape. You figure that MB3's salary is probably coming off the books this year. Either Kosier's or Bigg's salary will be moved, Colombo's salary, possibly Newman's salary, IDK. We will have some cap to spend in FA. It will not be the kind of money that we just go out and spend crazy money but we will be able to get safety help and probably a decent Guard. We really need our young CBs to return to form and we need our DEs and Spencer to step up and play good football for us.

Since Kosier's a FA he's not counting against our cap currently. But he will when we re-sign him. I expect Bigg to remain the starter at RG for 2011. Newman could maybe be restructured but I doubt he's leaving the roster unless its in favor of a FA who costs even more.

I'm not saying we're in terrible shape. I don't have enough info to say. But I think I've heard our 2011 cap cost is one of or the highest. Knowing that some of these burdensome contracts won't free up much if any space for 2012 I do get concerned about fitting in all our needs. Just a concern, not a panic.

Just seems we haven't had to worry at all about that issue for some time, but I think it's going to start limiting some of what we might want to otherwise do.