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salary cap question for Ravor
well, actually three questions.
#1) What is the current amount you have us under the cap. I'm at $8.63 using my figures but I believe I saw you say that we were about $7.7 under.
#2) Are you operating under the total salary cap figure for us as $123.678m? That was the figure I was working off and wanted to make sure that was correct.
#3) I noticed on your spreadsheet, you had moved Pollards $2.75m into the dead money section. I thought I heard you said that he would be a post June 1st release? My understanding was that, on June 1st releases, they stayed on the Rule of 51 roster until June 1st, at which point they were taken off the books. If I interpreted that correctly (which I probably didn't), that would mean Pollard's $2.75m would count towards to the Ravens cap figure until June 1st, at which point they would remove his $2m salary and eat his $750k 2013 bonus proration . His 2014 and 2015 dead money totals would count towards next years cap.
Help me out here.
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03-24-2013, 01:32 PM #2
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I was thinking the other day that during FA it would be nice to have a sticky thread specific to the cap that can be updated as those numbers change, especially during free agency. It could also be used by the resident in house cap expert to lay out how each signing/cut that occurs impacts the cap moving forward. It could also be used to provide the basics of what dead money is, how bonuses work, how they are attributed to the cap etc. Be a nice go to thread for cap info for old and new users alike and a great place to put the wealth of info Ravor provides in a easy to find place. Deciphering the cap at times seems like a tip into Dante's 7th circle of hell.
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Re: salary cap question for Ravor
This article may be helpful and if you look to the right of the screen you can see links to Brian's SC calculator
http://russellstreetreport.com/boldi...ince-march-12/
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03-24-2013, 02:56 PM #4Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: salary cap question for Ravor
I have a question also. Prior to signing Joe to a LTC there was a lot of discussion about tagging him -- either for $14M or $19-20M. Many posters suggested that that's what the Ravens were going to do, and in fact should do. But here's the thing: they signed Joe to a contract with a $6.8M cap hit for the upcoming year. Now we're told the Ravens only have $7.2M cap space. And there haven 't been any major signings to date. So according to that, there was just enough cap space to sign Joe to the non-exclusive tag, and then that would have been it. So it appears as if tagging Joe was never really an option, given the current cap figures.
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03-24-2013, 03:07 PM #5Veteran Poster
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We would have had to cut or restructure someone for sure. Which was one of the drawbacks of an exclusive vs non-exclusive, the former would have required more freed space.
Of course the tag was an option, but obviously a long term deal was always preferable. If Flacco was demanding $24M per year and wouldn't come down from that, you think we would have quickly agreed to that number or let him hit FA untagged rather than apply one of the franchise tags (no matter what kind of maneuvering it required)? I don't.
If a tag was placed it would have been primarily to buy more negotiating time (over the summer) while not exposing Flacco to free agency. Neither side would have preferred a tag to a 'mutually fair' deal, and thankfully such a deal was reached right before the tag deadline.
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03-24-2013, 03:27 PM #8
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Any particular reasoning your questioning his work? Or are yous just trying to understand it all for yourself? Just weird because I understand it quite well, but I never bother diving down into the figures of everyone unless for a specific reason, like leach for example. Otherwise I'd just roll with Brian's, so just curious as to why you delving so deep into it?
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03-24-2013, 03:39 PM #9Pro Bowl Poster
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I honestly don't recall people including that reality (the need to restructure) while they were proposing the tag as a preferred option. It was simply stated that the tag would or should be applied. Period. Clearly, that could never have happened without other cuts or restructures. So in truth, it never really was a viable, preferred alternative to begin with.
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Re: salary cap question for Ravor
The site overthecap.com is pretty good.
They have the Ravens at $8,459,254.
http://overthecap.com/nfl-cap-space.php?Year=2013
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03-24-2013, 03:45 PM #12
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anybody that had any incling about the cap and how it works knew it would cause massive ripple affects. Many names thrown out there for cuts was boldin, birk, Williams, leach, while all the while knowing we wouldn't get ellerbe, Kruger, or reed back.
It was a viable option, but would have required a few more moves to make it happen
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