Its June 1st whos gonna get cut

[BillsFanInMass]

i wonder what big names will be FA . I think there will be 1 or 2 big surprises that nobody has even mentioned . Any predictions or if you here anything please post it. thanks

[SoCalBillsFan]

no one. it's sunday. wait till tomorrow

[Dozerdog]

Well, Griese will be an obvious one. Rumors have it he's already got his contract and will sign it as soon as the league registers Denver's waiver. He's scheduled for mini camp workouts woth the fins this upcoming week.

[Dozerdog]

This season, there will be not many big name cuts. With the Sal cap going up so much lke it did, and teams generally getting thehandle on their cap situations, there won't be the big cuts seen in the past.


Look for teams without a lot of room under the cap to sign draft picks - they are the ones who will do the majority of the slashing tomorrow


Rank..... Team............ $ Under the Cap


1 Arizona Cardinals 16410000
2 Minnesota Vikings 13103000
3 New Orleans Saints 10800000
4 Houston Texans 10200000
5 Philadelphia Eagles 10000000
6 Chicago Bears 8370000
7 Dallas Cowboys 7000000
8 Detroit Lions 6700000
9 Buffalo Bills 6250000

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10 Baltimore Ravens 5300000
11 Seattle Seahawks 4700000
12 Jacksonville Jaguars 4550000
13 New England Patriots 4500000
14 NY Jets 4300000

==========Likely cuts to make room for draft pickks=======
15 San Diego Chargers 3200000
16 Oakland Raiders 2900000
17 Washington Redskins 2800000
18 Carolina Panthers 2630000
19 Miami Dolphins 2600000
20 Green Bay Packers 2500000
21 St. Louis Rams 2450000
22 Cincinnati Bengals 1800000
23 Kansas City Chiefs 1400000
24 NY Giants 1300000
25 Tennessee Titans 906000
26 Cleveland Browns 852000
27 Pittsburgh Steelers 792000
28 Atlanta Falcons 728000
29 San Francisco 49ers 711000
30 Denver Broncos 627000
31 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 316000
32 Indianapolis Colts 58000

http://www.askthecommish.com/Articles/SalaryCap.asp

[BillsNYC]

How can Arizona have that much room?

[Jan Reimers]

Please, no more aging, ineffective Titans players of whom Williams is so overly enamored.

[Dozerdog]

Originally posted by BillsNYC
How can Arizona have that much room?

Leave it to Arizona -


They already had a ton of room, fail to resign Boston and Plummer, 2 of their best players, and fail to nab a big FA themselves- (Spikes, Seau, Adams, and so on....)


They and the Bengals are the most inept in football. But at least the Bengals are trying this year.

[WG]

Originally posted by BillsNYC
How can Arizona have that much room?

It's easy, they SUCK!

Originally posted by Jan Reimers
Please, no more aging, ineffective Titans players of whom Williams is so overly enamored.

Indeed JR, indeed!!! I don't think we will. But I do agree w/ BFIM that there's always one surprise. And Dozer makes a good point as well to counter. Free Agency has begun to set into a steady-state which means the odds of teams finding themselves in cap binds every year goes down as the cap increases and as they finally begin to learn to effectively manage it to provide some element of chemistry to their teams.

There also appears to be more of a shift to "show me" contracts which include incentive clauses (such as for Adams) in which players are no longer simply given big bucks in last ditch efforts to try and sign them so that teams don't think they are losing out. There will still be that, but it's being mitigated every year now.

Of course the NFLPA will find some way to disturb the peacefulness of the new steady-state of team/player relations in the NFL.

I'm still thinkin' that there will be a surprise or two, possibly not from some team that HAS to cut a player for cap purposes, but perhaps by a team that simply feels as if they are overpaying someone even though they may not need the cap relief. JR was such a cut earlier. Actually, he was kind of both, but the consensus was that he wasn't worth the bucks he was getting paid.

[BillsNYC]

Originally posted by Jan Reimers
Please, no more aging, ineffective Titans players of whom Williams is so overly enamored.

HERE HERE!!!

[Dozerdog]

Originally posted by Wys Guy

I'm still thinkin' that there will be a surprise or two, possibly not from some team that HAS to cut a player for cap purposes, but perhaps by a team that simply feels as if they are overpaying someone even though they may not need the cap relief. JR was such a cut earlier. Actually, he was kind of both, but the consensus was that he wasn't worth the bucks he was getting paid.

Jason Seahorn was cut already, there might be others out there. Keep an eye on the Colts /Browns/ Steelers

[BillsNYC]

it relieves me to see that we have more money than any of the other afc east teams. Miami can have griese, I hope a qb controversy occurs there.

[Bert102176]

Dozerdog no one wants to play for the Cards cause no one want's to be a looser

[BillsFanInMass]

Yeah arizona sucks do we play them this yr hmmm must go look

[Dozerdog]

Originally posted by Bert102176
Dozerdog no one wants to play for the Cards cause no one want's to be a looser

Let me ask you this hypothetical -

If you are Sammy Morris- would you want o be a 3rd stringer on the Bills making $500,000, or a 2nd stringer on the Cards making 1.25 million?


You grab the money.

Now if the difference is between you making $10 for a winner, or $12 million for a loser- I can see taking less for a chance to win.

But having ANY job for second tier players is worth it. Ask John Fina.

[BADTHINGSMAN]

Read somewhere think it was kffl that QB Jonathon Beasly from Jacksonville was released or will be released.. And possibly Mushin Muhammed from Carolina..