This was recently posted on Rotoworld: $37 Million dollars?! Wasn't this supposed to be our cap purgatory year? Now I'm kind of stumped. Why did we just cut Brandon Moore? Are we freeing up room to sign half of Baltimore's roster? I mean, it's nice to have breathing room under the cap, but why cut a proven starter without an obvious replacement? 8 million for Moore this year, right? That would have left us with $29 million. I'd say "we better sign Haynesworth," but that guy is phoning in 2009, guaranteed.
With Moore taken off, we're somewhere between $20 and $37 million under. Sounds like the official belief is closer to the $37, but that accounts for zero additional bonuses hitting the cap.
i'll round it to 30M, which is a beautiful number to make a lot of moves with. We should add more picks at this point, if Scott and Lehonard are signed.
this is good news. I didn't think the Jets were going to do anything "earth shattering" in FA this year...but it looks like they're preparing the "shopping cart" for a 2nd straight year....let's hope they spend wisely.
I thought we were at 17 mil? Man, if we are at 30 mil..we can get Scott for sure. He is the #1 FA I am hoping we get. Lewis would be nice too, but, his age is something to really consider. GET IT DONE WOODY!!
I think all of these cap reports for the Jets are a bunch of bunk leaked by the FO to cloud the FA picture.
I'd like to see the Jets take a run at Jabari Greer too....he'd be a great cover corner opposite Revis. I didn't think it was worth thinking about...but with this new found cap space....we can start putting together a nice FA shopping list :smile:
Chris Canty, Leonhard and Scott???(I'm probably dreaming)...that would set us up for BPA in draft (if they are sold on Lowery)
37 million under seems a lil too good to be true after last offseason. Idk I think abyzmul might be right about all this. Also just curious on the popular opinion for Brandon Moores replacement.
I'm skeptical of that number as well, but Hutch seemed to have the support of someone in the league and he reported $15.5 before saving 9.6 on the restructures and before Moore's alleged cut. Those two put us over $30 million if he's to be believed.
I actually did hear a report that the cap might end up at $760.2 billion. If that's the case, I say we draft Belgium.
Yeah they are. But that figure is for the year 3009, not 2009. As for Moore, he'll save us 5.5 if released. We'd be dumb to simply release him and not get a pick in return. I doubt if we let him go this report is true. For $37 mil, we can sign couple of Peyton Mannings. Do they plan to bring Favre back or something?
Keep in mind that the best way to build a team is still through the draft. Big free agent signings are not the foundation of the best teams in the league. I have no problem with Leonhard but we don't have to give another 40 million to a linebacker.
i understand that this argument is tried and true, but in the nfl nowadays you need to build through the draft while filling in holes through free agency. you can't neglect one for the other, you must do both effectively.
