Hamilton Billsfan
04-15-2005, 07:57 PM
First off, I would like to Thank Clumping Platelets for his hard work in gathering and maintaining the Cap Page, it is an extremely valuable resource to track potential changes to the team and give the fan an insight to how a player is weighted and valued. It also allows amateurs like me to crunch some numbers, like on my favorite part of the team, the Offensive Line!
From Clump’s numbers, and from Ourlads.com depth chart, on paper, today’s starting line-up and salaries look like this,
LT Gandy $ 995 000
LG Anderson 1 050 000
C Teague 3 625 000
RG Villarrial 2 993 750
RT Williams 9 813 764
And the 2nd string back-ups are,
LT McFarland 319 150
LG Smith 386 500
C Tucker 710 000
RG Sobieski 305 000
RT Pruce 230 000
And 3rd stringers left are,
LG Esposito 230 000
RG Bannon 590 000
RT Peters 305 000
These 13 players earn a total $21,247,164 and the top 10 earn $20,482,162 of the adjusted salary cap of$85,722,000 for an avg. of $2,048,216 per player. Also, these 10 players account for 23.9% of the cap. Any 10 players on a 53 man roster represents 18.9%. The average for any player on a 53 man roster is $1,634,397.so any 10 player would receive $16,343,970 theoretically
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I’ve formatted it this way so one is able to refer quickly to what I’m talking about.
IMHO, Traditional NFL teams usually have 9 or10 members on the O-Line and a long snapper on the Game roster. I have not included Dorenbos or Gomez as they are not important to my discussion.
One could make some obvious conclusions about the above numbers such as the O-Line receives a larger part for the available funds in the cap and a larger than expected percentage of the cap for the unit as a whole. For a number of reasons I don’t think it would be wise to point to Mike Williams as the sole cause for this situation. I’m not sure if Williams contract has been re-negotiated yet as was rumored here on this board or whether Clump managed to include the new numbers on his April 12-05 update. That being said, IMHO, I have made some other conclusions;
1) The O-Line has not been neglected by management for lack of trying to find and sign quality players,
2) The numbers show a solid depth available on the O-Line as opposed to having many cheap and inexperienced players for back-up
3) There are an excess of natural guards on the roster, 7 when I expect the team to only keep 4 and perhaps convert 1 to a tackle
4) The line looks to be a great place to create some cap room if needed for a number of reasons! One reason could be if Shelton came to Buffalo, someone in the top 10 would have to be cut.
I cannot tell the future. Obviously the draft will bring 1 or 2 more O-Line players and then there is the Henry trade which could bring another to the O-Line. In addition, the Team may sign more free agents.
Each player we have now have their own story, advantages, strengths and weaknesses. A great example is Peters. He has a reputation of being very quick and agile for a player of his size. Hopefully the time spent on the PR last year has allowed him learn and to move from his TE position in College to a position on the O-Line in the future. We all like the versatility He can bring to the team.
From Clump’s numbers, and from Ourlads.com depth chart, on paper, today’s starting line-up and salaries look like this,
LT Gandy $ 995 000
LG Anderson 1 050 000
C Teague 3 625 000
RG Villarrial 2 993 750
RT Williams 9 813 764
And the 2nd string back-ups are,
LT McFarland 319 150
LG Smith 386 500
C Tucker 710 000
RG Sobieski 305 000
RT Pruce 230 000
And 3rd stringers left are,
LG Esposito 230 000
RG Bannon 590 000
RT Peters 305 000
These 13 players earn a total $21,247,164 and the top 10 earn $20,482,162 of the adjusted salary cap of$85,722,000 for an avg. of $2,048,216 per player. Also, these 10 players account for 23.9% of the cap. Any 10 players on a 53 man roster represents 18.9%. The average for any player on a 53 man roster is $1,634,397.so any 10 player would receive $16,343,970 theoretically
.
I’ve formatted it this way so one is able to refer quickly to what I’m talking about.
IMHO, Traditional NFL teams usually have 9 or10 members on the O-Line and a long snapper on the Game roster. I have not included Dorenbos or Gomez as they are not important to my discussion.
One could make some obvious conclusions about the above numbers such as the O-Line receives a larger part for the available funds in the cap and a larger than expected percentage of the cap for the unit as a whole. For a number of reasons I don’t think it would be wise to point to Mike Williams as the sole cause for this situation. I’m not sure if Williams contract has been re-negotiated yet as was rumored here on this board or whether Clump managed to include the new numbers on his April 12-05 update. That being said, IMHO, I have made some other conclusions;
1) The O-Line has not been neglected by management for lack of trying to find and sign quality players,
2) The numbers show a solid depth available on the O-Line as opposed to having many cheap and inexperienced players for back-up
3) There are an excess of natural guards on the roster, 7 when I expect the team to only keep 4 and perhaps convert 1 to a tackle
4) The line looks to be a great place to create some cap room if needed for a number of reasons! One reason could be if Shelton came to Buffalo, someone in the top 10 would have to be cut.
I cannot tell the future. Obviously the draft will bring 1 or 2 more O-Line players and then there is the Henry trade which could bring another to the O-Line. In addition, the Team may sign more free agents.
Each player we have now have their own story, advantages, strengths and weaknesses. A great example is Peters. He has a reputation of being very quick and agile for a player of his size. Hopefully the time spent on the PR last year has allowed him learn and to move from his TE position in College to a position on the O-Line in the future. We all like the versatility He can bring to the team.