re: Cap Gurus - Need a tutorial

On the rookie pool, some places include it in the figure and some don't. I believe the NFLPA's numbers do not include them.

On where we stand now, I'm not completely sure because I have yet to see what Bailey or Bush are getting. Bush may actually wind up costing less than his $1.4m cap hold depending on structure and what incentives the Falcons put in that we had to match.

quote:

---

Explain how this would work? As has been said many times... Re-Structure doesn't mean less money.

---

A basic restructure(what you hear most about) takes money from this year and turns it into signing bonus to push the hit into future years.

Say they restructure $8m of a guy's base into bonus and he has 4 years left. That adds $2m to each year. He saves $6m for the current year as $2m of the original $8m still counts for this year.

quote:

---

Cutting Bunkley is a lot tougher than people think. If they cut him by June 1st then yes it would help the cap this year, but next year it would cause a $3.2 million cap hit.

---

He saves $1.25m now and IF he's a June 1st cut saves $4.5m come June 1st.

Yes he would cost $3.2m next year if a June 1st cut, but he costs $6.1m next year if kept so we still save about $3m next year on him.

quote:

---

The main solution right now seems to be signing Jimmy Graham to a long term deal.

---

This is dependent on if he files a grievance and the outcome of that, but at the moment he costs $7m and at best would have his number dropped to $4m(more likely between $5-5.5m) because of his expected signing bonus.

But yes that extra $2-3m would help.