Tampa has some cap space

[JonCJG]

according to PFT they have quite a bit!

POSTED 7:02 p.m. EST, February 27, 2008​

BUCS' CAP BULGE GOES TO $44 MILLION​

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers officially have more cap room than Abraham Lincoln.​

Our friends at Pewter Report report that the Bucs have cut defensive ends Kevin Carter and Greg Spires. ​

The move cleared out another $9.2 million in cap space, putting the Bucs a full $44 million under the $116 million salary cap.​

One way to use up the current year cap bulge is to use large roster bonuses in lieu of signing bonuses for any free agents that they might sign. If, for example, the Bucs were to sign cornerback Asante Samuel, they could give him a $20 million roster bonus, which would count fully against this year's cap. In turn, he would have significantly lower cap numbers in future years of the deal.​

There's another potential benefit to such a move. Because the Raiders have applied the exclusive franchise tag to cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, his one-year tender will be based on the average of the five highest-paid corners in 2008. A cap number in excess of $20 million for Samuel would force that number north by $2 million or more.

Given that Bucs coach Jon Gruden and G.M. Bruce Allen used to work for the Raiders, we could see them getting a kick out of sticking it to their former employer in this way.​

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

They will be big time players in Free Agency for a few years...

This thread should be in the NFL Zone however

 

[sago1]

Let me see. I root for the Bucs cause they've got lots of cap money to spend over next few years to improve their team, or I keep rooting for the Cowboys who don't have much more cap room to work with but who got frontrunner status as NFC rep to SB in 09 (assuming we get over our December - February freefall).

 

[Future]

Asante Samuel would be a great fit there, seeing as how he is such a ball-hawk, zone defense, type of corner.