He's 50/50 next season in savings to dead money straight cut, and especially when you consider the June 1st cut option where he becomes 3 to 1 he didn't kill us with his restructure in the least.

We needed the money then so we had to do it. And we need the money now and the only guys to really consider restructuring are Brees(who makes much more sense next year), Evans, Grubbs, and Colston.

Either that or making some other cuts like Bunkley, Moore, Sproles, and/or Thomas(nobody else saves enough to really be worth it besides Evans and he isn't getting cut). Likely have to do a combination of cuts and restructures anyway.

We can only designate 2 June 1st cuts and Bunkley is the primest of the prime candidates for that. Only other options are Moore, Harper, and Greer.

So what moves are you going to make? Keeping in mind we still have to make more room to tag Graham, sign at least Bush, Morgan, and Harris to their tenders, get another starting corner unless we are going to rely on an unknown rookie/White/PRob, figure out RT and C, and sign our rookies.

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Posted by bonethug0108

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Posted on 2/13/14 at 9:54 pm to bonethug0108

This is something to give you an idea of what we're working with.

Restructure
Evans
Colston

June 1st Cut
Bunkley

2nd Round RFA
Bush
Morgan

ERFA
Harris

Franchise
Graham

Resign
Strief(3 years/$12.5 mil; 1st year hit of $3.2 mil)

This gives us 53 players and $1.5 mil left in cap room. So we still have to make another move or two just to sign our rookies and unless we free up more money we can only sign vet minimum players from here on out.

We still lack a clear starting C and CB in this scenario. So what other moves do we make in this situation?

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Posted by THRILLHO

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Posted on 2/13/14 at 10:39 pm to bonethug0108

quote:
So what moves are you going to make?

What I did in the little game thingy:
-Convert $4m of Brees base salary to signing bonus
-Extended Strief to 3 year, $10m deal: such a big guessing game here. RTs are weird contract wise. Strief could sign a 4yr/$17m type deal in FA or a 3y/$8m type deal with us and neither would shock me. Here, I did a $3m signing bonus, guaranteed $2m first and secondyear salaries, non-guaranteed $2m third year salary (wasn't an option on the tool, but with a $1m roster bonus). Not that anything after this year makes a difference with the cap tool, but it seemed reasonable for him.
-Tagged Graham at $6m
-Picked up Harris's exclusive rights (dirt cheap)
-Original round tendered Bush ($1.3m). The $1.33m would be about the same he would make elsewhere, but with our letting Harper go and likely not re-signing Jenkins, he knows that his best chance at a $3m+/yr deal would be playing another year here as a starter or, more likely, the third safety on a team that runs a lot of 3 safety sets.
-Post June 1st cut Bunkley. Tough choice.
-Cut Lance Moore: Ditto.
-Cut Pierre Thomas
-Don't pick up Morgan's round drafted tender: I think we can re-sign him at vet min if desired, saving us ~$800k.

That leaves us without a center but otherwise in good shape in terms of major needs. That also leaves us with a smidge over $6m in cap space to get our 2014 version of Keenan Lewis/Curtis Lofton (surprisingly good FA with little cap room, thinking someone like Donald Butler or MAYBE Chris Clemons) without touching Grubbs/Colston/Evans. Start playing with their contracts if you have a good chance at getting a guy like Hakeem Nicks on a 1yr/$3m type deal (plus it would be amazing having Hakeem Nicks and Akiem Hicks on the same team).

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