Let's talk salary cap

Restructure Derek Carr, Cam Jordan retires, Ryan Ramcyzk retires…you are now cap compliant.

Next, restructure guys you plan to have here anyway, strictly as needed…

Eric McCoy 6.7m saved
Carl Granderson 5.7m saved
Ceasar Ruiz 6.4m saved
Pete Werner 2.5m saved
Rasheed Shaheed 2.1m saved
Tyrann Mathieu 4.5m saved
Demario Davis 5.5m saved


That’s now $33.4m in cap space available to sign who we want…and this is without cutting anyone, no June 1st designations, no trading anyone, and several more possible restructures available. Just flat out building on what we have already.

The salary cap is just a 5-year accounting log that extends year after year endlessly and also allows you to be over the cap in future seasons in perpetuity; it is not a hard cap. Stop freaking out just because our log/ledger CURRENTLY shows a certain number. That number has just not been managed yet; the team has just not revealed to the league/turned in the paperwork yet.

People using this past off-season and roster condition as a direct product of the cap situation are not looking at this correctly.

Our roster is “bad” (arguable in itself) because we aren’t drafting well, may have signed a couple of regrets, have an abnormal number of key injuries, and poor coaching/development, not the accounting work.