I'm in agreement with the folks saying send Breno G. packing. That guy has been a useless FA/RT since the day he walked in the door. I have GOT to believe we can find better...or at least the same in FA or draft for less than HALF the money. I view this a successful offseason if we can sign Fitz, re-sign Mo and Snacks. We can bolster our ground game with the draft/FA. IF and only IF Powell takes a cap friendly deal would I want him back. Ivory is gonzo.....
Of course dead money counts . For example yes the Jets save 9 million on Dbrickshaw Ferguson but they take a 5 million cap hit. ( that's eating up their cap) dBrickshaw Ferguson was scheduled to make 14 million next year. So that's five million cap hit + how much it cost to sign his replacement. What are you paying that Lt . Top free agents Lt get 9-10 million, unless you think you can draft one which should be a lot cheaper. Dead money always matters- that statement was factual wrong.
I don't know...if they can somehow work out a deal for the Vet minimum with incentives he "still" wouldn't be a bad guy to have around. I could see him in spot duty and backup material.
That would be fair. But he has to know he's not starting, because that's where he'll continue to be a liability back there. Marcus is easily the better choice, and needs the starting time to develop more.
Sorry, $1.8 million is the dead money, $1.3 million would be the cap savings. My mistake at looking at the wrong column on overthecap.com.
Of course it still hits the cap, but the important thing is the cap savings, not the dead money, because when you cut a player, it's for the cap savings. I don't think the Jets can cut Brick, but in the case of Giacomini, a $1 million dead money hit against the cap, is nothing compared with the $4.375 million they'd save against the cap by cutting him. Also, the dead money was already counting against the cap, so it's not a new or big concern. The important thing is the cap savings.
To begin with, do you really think he'd accept vet minimum? I don't, not for a second. He was falling all over himself last season telling everyone how much he wanted to re-join the Jets. Did he come back at a bargain price? No. I don't think he'd even consider anything less than $5-$6 million per season. Even if he did, do you really think he'd ride the pine? I don't. I think he'd be right back in the starting lineup. IMO it's time to move on. I'd rather have a UDFA taking his roster spot at CB. At least the kid would have some upside, and hopefully better technique.
Hard to say my man....Let's see what kind of "play" he gets in FA before we put the nail in that coffin. Something tells me that NO ONE is going to fork over $5/6 mil /yr. based on last year's performance...and if they did. Good riddance. No, I think he wastes away and comes back to us at a SIGNIFICANT savings because he has a LOT of mouths to feed...god...aren't his child support payments in the HUNDREDS of thousands? I just double checked...yup! A WHOPPING $336,000/YEAR! The vet minimum is $985,000. A third of which...see previous sentence... He'll play somewhere and it'll be vet minimum with incentives...and he'll play his ass off for those incentives.
Look...for his numbers, Cro is not the liability he is made out to be. He's just not Revis lite anymore. If we had a good FS to roll over to his side, he'd still be a great 2. Like Skrine is a great 3 but not so much as a 2. The other issue, and go back and look at the film...is the lack of a pass rush from the olbs. Our DL os great, but there's no OLB getting ther .5 seconds ahead of the DL and att his level, the FS and OLB is what kills us on 3rd down, not Cro, tho Cro is not a 9mil guy. 6 tops, if we can put speed at the other two spots.
Jets wil, pay him 5 or 6 to keep the CB trio intact. Pay close attention to the draft. This is magic mikes tell year...does he reach for the need for speed, or walk down and fuck them all.
I'm only on page one of this thread, so this might have further discussion. My take is 'Brick is too old to restructure (by restructure I mean trade his 2016 salary for an up-front signing bonus which would spread his $15M 2016 salary out over the life of his contract). What we should do with 'Brick is thank him for his service, then cut and re-sign him to a 4 yr contract that is in line with his 'gray beard' performance. First, 'Brick knows it's coming. 'Bricks going to be 84 yrs old in March and he won't want to move to start his career over with a new team in a new city. He's already made more money then he can spend, so he won't feel like chasing a big contract (just to pass it on to his friends and kids). Something like $8M, $6M, $4M, $2M. He'll be a back-up the last 2 seasons. Then gone.
