kelly Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Parity is a huge part of what makes the NFL the most popular professional sports league in the United States, and that parity was largely made possible by the NFL’s implementation of a hard salary cap in 1994. Unlike other professional sports leagues, where willing teams are allowed to pay a luxury tax for having a total payroll that exceeds their salary cap, NFL teams are subject to fines, a loss of draft picks, and voided contracts for violating their league’s salary cap rules. This is why many teams are forced to constantly restructure contracts, make trades, or outright release some of their best players just to get right by the salary cap. On top of that, the NFL’s free agency period simply wouldn’t be the same if there weren’t a hard salary cap in place. When it comes to circumventing the NFL salary cap, there is only so much a team can do. As it stands, all 32 teams around the league are in good standing with the league’s 2015 salary cap of $143,280,000 — which is not uncommon for this time of year. Projecting forward to the 2016 league year is a completely different story. While the cap is looking to increase in 2016, there are some teams who won’t be able to avoid facing serious cap conundrums following the 2015 season. ADVERTISING After crunching the 2016 salary cap numbers for all 32 NFL teams, we found that there are five teams in particular that are facing serious cap issues for the 2016 season. The front offices for all five teams will have their work cut out for them in trying to solve their financial issues, but the good news is they have a couple months left to do so. Without further ado, here is a look at five teams that are facing serious salary cap issues in 2016. * The 2016 NFL salary cap will likely be slightly higher than the 2015 cap of $143,280,000 ~ ~ 5. New York Jets Active Contracts: $152,909,924 Dead Money: $0 Total 2016 Salary Cap Figure: $152,909,924 In a matter of one offseason, the Jets went from being in the top five of the league in available to cap space to the bottom five. The team added (among others) cornerbacks Darrelle Revis, Antonio Cromartie, and Buster Skrine as free agents, and traded for wide receiver Brandon Marshall. Their toughest decision will be what they choose to do with defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson. If they are serious about re-signing him, there is a good chance that the Jets’ front office will attempt to restructure the contracts of offensive tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson, Marshall, Revis, and center Nick Mangold. rest of above article : > http://www.cheatsheet.com/sports/nfl-5-teams-facing-serious-salary-cap-issues-in-2016.html/6/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Cromartie and Coples are $16M. Another $4M for Giacomini. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gas2No99 Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Cromartie is expendable. Marshall is only guaranteed for this year, but we may want him to hang around a bit longer if he's healthy &'continues to Beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Cromartie is expendable. Marshall is only guaranteed for this year, but we may want him to hang around a bit longer if he's healthy &'continues to Beast. Marshall, Brick and Mangold all have huge numbers that they can play with for significant savings. There are other guys they can monkey with if they want to keep them around like Fitzpatrick $3.5M - they can extend and convert some to bonus hey can probably do that with some of the other big contracts like Decker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Jets fan Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Such a crap story. Many of the new contracts won't have any cap hit if the player is cut. IE Cromartie. Cap is fine for next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuler82 Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Such a crap story. Many of the new contracts won't have any cap hit if the player is cut. IE Cromartie. Cap is fine for next year. 100% Follow Jason's site for the real cap story. Between cutting Cro and saving $8M, restructuring D'Brick's $9M, and making a decision on whether to resign Coples long term or let him go, (they wont be paying him $7M in 2016) you're looking at a good $14M or so in savings. Granted, decisions need to be made on Mo and Sheldon, but I don't see huge issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 100% Follow Jason's site for the real cap story. Between cutting Cro and saving $8M, restructuring D'Brick's $9M, and making a decision on whether to resign Coples long term or let him go, (they wont be paying him $7M in 2016) you're looking at a good $14M or so in savings. Granted, decisions need to be made on Mo and Sheldon, but I don't see huge issues. Yeah, I don't even think they need to make a decision on Richardson next year. He is locked up for 2016 cheap and then they should be able to exercise the 5th year option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 Cromartie is expendable. Marshall is only guaranteed for this year, but we may want him to hang around a bit longer if he's healthy &'continues to Beast. we can lose cro as long as we keep all our other db's.. cheers ~ ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BornJetsFan1983 Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 why is couples still on the team this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sperm Edwards Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Coples and Cromartie are $8M apiece, as mentioned. Coples isn't terrible but he's not worth $8M if that's going to be the difference between re-signing Fitzgerald and crossing our fingers on Petty (or Geno). Doubtful Maccagnan allows that to occur; he only tagged Coples for next year because why the hell not? And Cromartie was a mistake from the get go. He'll make some plays over the course of the season that will cause some to retort, "See? SEE?" but he can't be justified for $8M with his overall play plus the corner depth we have. He's just not that good anymore. Not $8M good, anyway. Cutting Kerley after June 1 saves $2.5M (and leaves a $1.2M hole in 2017's cap. Or just cut him right away and push off someone else's compensation a bit to hit more next year. Surface appearance aside, it's the same thing in the end. Designating Brick as a post-June 1 cut before his workout bonus appears to save $12-13M. If he doesn't take a pay cut or restructure in a way that isn't going to bind us to him for another 4-5 years, he's a prime candidate to get cut. The only blatant thing in his favor is we don't have a replacement on hand. But his impossibly good health aside, he's not nearly the player he was. If another LT is available they'll have a real decision to make. New contracts are generally structured so they're light on the cap in year 1. If we upgrade from Breno, we can save as much as $4.5M this year by cutting him after June 1st. Would only push $600K off to 2017, but if we were cutting it that close cap-wise next year it could be done. We should also get some $ rebate from Richardson's suspension (both the orig 4 games plus whatever else is to come). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Coples and Cromartie are $8M apiece, as mentioned. Coples isn't terrible but he's not worth $8M if that's going to be the difference between re-signing Fitzgerald and crossing our fingers on Petty (or Geno). Doubtful Maccagnan allows that to occur; he only tagged Coples for next year because why the hell not? And Cromartie was a mistake from the get go. He'll make some plays over the course of the season that will cause some to retort, "See? SEE?" but he can't be justified for $8M with his overall play plus the corner depth we have. He's just not that good anymore. Not $8M good, anyway. Cutting Kerley after June 1 saves $2.5M (and leaves a $1.2M hole in 2017's cap. Or just cut him right away and push off someone else's compensation a bit to hit more next year. Surface appearance aside, it's the same thing in the end. Designating Brick as a post-June 1 cut before his workout bonus appears to save $12-13M. If he doesn't take a pay cut or restructure in a way that isn't going to bind us to him for another 4-5 years, he's a prime candidate to get cut. The only blatant thing in his favor is we don't have a replacement on hand. But his impossibly good health aside, he's not nearly the player he was. If another LT is available they'll have a real decision to make. New contracts are generally structured so they're light on the cap in year 1. If we upgrade from Breno, we can save as much as $4.5M this year by cutting him after June 1st. Would only push $600K off to 2017, but if we were cutting it that close cap-wise next year it could be done. We should also get some $ rebate from Richardson's suspension (both the orig 4 games plus whatever else is to come). Dude, you bolded Fitzgerald. Go and correct that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerfish Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 I hope they can find a way other than getting rid of Coples. I like the guy and though he has not taken off into orbit he has gotten some results and looks very good at times, all the while still playing a position I think he is not best suited for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sperm Edwards Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 On the plus side, it's not like there are positions at which we desperately need cap room to upgrade, where we don't have the $ to move onto someone else. Maybe a crazy-good OLB but letting Coples loose will but a big dent in that cost, and Cromartie will take care of the rest (and we'd have change left over). Either LT or RT we'll save plenty by moving on from the guy whose place is being taken. Big nuts to cover for 2016 (or kiss them goodbye): Wilkerson (if kept). Unknown amount he'd count in year 1 on a long-term deal, but to tag him is going to be in the $16M range and he'd still be a FA the year after that. Thought for sure we'd let him walk, but Richardson's off-field garbage has muddied that a bit. If Maccagnan wanted to lock him up long term he could have, and year 1 of that new contract wouldn't have cost much more than the $7M he's counting this year by exercising our option for him. Fitzpatrick (if he starts and finishes the season). We won't be able to retain him for only another $3M unless something bad happens with him this season (injury or poor play). If he goes the distance this season, and does an efficient but unspectacular job as a game manager and we go to the playoffs, don't be surprised to see his dollars reach $10M per (even if it's low on guarantees). Not as big but not zero either: Harrison - I figure he's gone. Just too much money. He was kept 1 more year because he could be kept so cheaply, but it's one thing to exercise a 1 year option for $2.3M while we had loads of space and enough holes already, and another altogether to re-sign him to a new deal for $5-6M per or more with gobs of guarantees. Having premiere talent among Wilkerson (if kept), Richardson, and Williams means you don't have to spend another $5-6M per on an expensive, run-stuffing NT. He's going to want to get paid and odds are someone will give it to him: there are a lot of teams that will have a mountain of cap space to use up. Davis - not hot garbage but not what we'd hoped he would become either (not yet anyway). Let him go and Rex can offer him $7-8M per. There are ILBers to draft every year and a new one can learn and develop next to the guaranteed Harris the way we wanted for Davis. ~$3M per or less: Colon - jokes aside, he's still our starting RG until someone else supplants him. Ivory - possible the team takes the approach of take the money and run. We got good value for him on a 3 year deal but a bruiser like Ivory, who takes a lot of punishment on his carries, he won't be getting even better on his next contract. If Ridley comes back and looks the part I think they let Ivory go to the highest bidder. Powell - wouldn't mention if not for Ivory not also becoming a FA as well. Reliable 3rd down back who can get extra carries in a pinch. Would like to retain him and he shouldn't break the bank. Seems like a good guy, too. Ridley - hasn't played a down yet so it's too soon to tell what, if anything, he'd be worth or would command. But it may be that they wanted to just stash him this year to have the inside track in locking him up for a few years past this season. Maybe. Otherwise they could (and arguably should) just look to the draft for their primary back. Pace - Particularly if Coples is a cap casualty they may throw him a bone of another $2M or so if he's still a decent rotational player by year's end so they won't have to throw a rookie to the wolves on every play from day 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sperm Edwards Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Dude, you bolded Fitzgerald. Go and correct that. I bolded all the names. Don't read into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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