re: Jabari Greer's Contract Situation

So it's going to cost 4 million to cut him? I'd say just keep him then.

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We need a 3rd guy as nickel, and Greer fits the bill perfectly as a true starting nickelback and a rotational/situational guy at the position.

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This is what I was thinking. I'm hoping they keep Greer even if they do sign Asomugha. I'm no expert, but I think Greer would be a great nickelback with Lewis and Asomugha holding down the islands. Then we have Robinson and White for rotation/dime and hopefully groom for the future.

I know! Wtf are you supposed to just sit there and admire it!?

All three are starter potential and look at atlanta last year. top 3 DB's were all starting caliber, not a really bad issue to have especially since their cost is relatively cheap. In today's age, you're going to need to cover 3 receivers more often than not and to have all three of them as our top dbs, I'd imagine we'd get a lot more coverage sacks.

To figure out savings you take Cap Hit(what he currently costs) and subtract Dead Money(what he would still cost).

$5.425 - $3.975 = $1.45 mil

So we'd save $1.45 mil toward the cap cutting him. I only see him getting cut if they really need that extra bit.

More likely would be Jenkins who'd save us $2.5 and is not as good of a player(unless they move him back to corner after cutting Greer; he'd be a younger, cheaper option though still not as good imo).

Or a running back(Ingram is not cuttable; he'd cost us money to cut). Thomas saves $2.5. Sproles saves $2.25. Rescinding Ivory's offer saves about $2.

As a June 1st cut, come June 1st he'd save us another $2.65 mil(his signing bonus next year and the year after). At that point he is definitely cuttable.

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we'd save $1.45 mil toward the cap cutting him

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forgot the guaranteed money

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I don't think I'd want to cut our most consistent CB

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I think you need to prepare yourself. It's pretty clear that they are trying to upgrade the position.

Sportrac and Rotoworld appear at adds on this one. Sportrac only has him at $4m in dead money. Per Rotoworld, Greer had $11.3m guaranteed with his extension. So far, he's only seen $2.6m of the signing bonus (including this season) and the first year's guaranteed base salary ($2.4m). That would leave him with over $5m remaining in guarantees, greater than his $3.6m base + $400k roster bonus.

I think it's a "mute" point, though, as there no guarantee that Asomugha is even a better player than Greer right now. He's still a solid contributor despite his age.