Spiller cut affect on the cap (1 Viewer)

[El Caliente]

So how much are we under the cap next year?

Not as much as we were at the start of the day.

 

[REBELMAX]

The fact that he was cut almost immediately after we freed up enough space to eat his hit this year says that we've been wanting him gone for a while but couldn't afford it.

This is a total waste of talent and money. In the grand scheme, we eat his 7 million in dead money this season, lose 2.5 million in space, but get it back next year. So this isn't hurting us in the future. But we are doing all that for a player who isn't even on the team anymore. Another in the long line.

This has to stop.

Yep. Looking back on all of the theatrics and featuring him in garbage time of the pre season to try to move him it's very obvious he was never going to play a regular season snap this year and that was decided long ago.

Cutting him after game 1 was to see if an injury happened to whoever we were talking to about him and I guess it didn't

 

[Freshcakes]

If they are purposefully clearing cap space for making a run at big free agents next year then why not tank also and get a better draft spot.

Need to make sure the strategy is being followed in both ways.

And don't trade away draft picks for a 7-9 finish at best.

 

[DaveXA]

If they are purposefully clearing cap space for making a run at big free agents next year then why not tank also and get a better draft spot.

Need to make sure the strategy is being followed in both ways.

And don't trade away draft picks for a 7-9 finish at best.

No, no, no tanking after the first game of the season. That's for losers.

 

[bclemms]

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[Meachemdat]

Bonchie -I am with you 100%. But to fix this now long-standing problem with very poor FA picks, salary increases to locker room toxins and weak drafting, I don't think a band-aid will work. We need major moves in the FO. We have to have someone who can bring football and player business savvy back into the FO, and also someone in position and will-power to challenge SP.

I still think SP is a great coach. But he needs development in certain areas and that will only happen if he has a peer in the FO who can fight his whims on equal ground.

I saw Hopkins kick last night. How could any coach in their right mind pick Forbath over Hopkins. Hopkins has perfect form, a very quick release, quick high elevation and nails kicks dead center.

Look....


Don't you all start pretending that when some of these guys became free agents you weren't chomping at the bit to get them in here and signed.

It just didn't work out. For every Vilma, Shockey and Sharper there are going to be a Butler, Spiller and Byrd.

We actually had an insane amount of luck for several years and our team did everything it could to acquire some of the best free agents it could to contend.

The NFL is a coin flip at best when it comes to free agent signings and draft picks.

 

[obwhiteo]

When are they going to start holding these evaluators responsible. Fleener looks like the next in a long line of players who come here to get paid then give up. Either we need to vet these guys better or we need to figure out why guys come here and stop caring. How many FAs have we given big money too and then they don't ever learn the playbook or they have surgery a week later. If we had even half of those guys contributing or would have used that money on literally anyone who gave a darn, we would be a much better football team. There is no reason a UDFA can grasp the playbook, but 7-8 year Veterans can't. This is deeper than that, we can't keep being the place you go to get paid and give up.