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The Miami Dolphins are projected to be 17 mil over the cap after spending huge money on Suh in FA and extending Tannehill. They are without question in "win now" mode because if they don't a full cleaning of the house should be expected. From the front office, to the coaching staff, to a major purging of the roster.


The Jets are projected to be 7 mil over the cap after revamping their secondary by signing Revis, Cromartie and Skrine in FA. Muhammad Wilkerson is due for a new contract as well and their cap situation along with drafting Leonard Williams may lead to him testing the FA market.


The Bills are projected to be 3 mil over the cap after wheeling and dealing this offseason, most notably trading and extending a new contract for Shady McCoy and re-signing Jerry Hughes to a nice payday. That's not good news for a new head coach trying to put his stamp on the team.


New Orleans are projected to be 1.8 mil over the cap and had to dump major talent this year just to get into cap compliance. Without question they are a team headed towards a massive rebuild and are trending downwards.


Honorable mention goes towards the Chip Kelly lead Eagles. They are projected to squeeze under the cap at 344k. That's contributed to an offseason highlighted by trading away one overpaid RB to sign 2 overpaid RBs as replacements. Good thing Chip didn't trade away all of his draft picks this year because they will be behind the 8 ball come next year's free agency period.


The Jags should be sitting pretty next year projected at 27 million under the cap and with no "cap damaging" free agents to re-sign. Ryan Davis, Austin Pasztor, Mercedes Lewis, and Stephen Wisniewski leads the FA list.

lets not also forget that Lewis has a monster contract that will not affect us next year either

No worries, the league will adjust the cap to make sure the Colts and Broncos are ok.

Quote:lets not also forget that Lewis has a monster contract that will not affect us next year either

 

pretty sure he reworked it and his cap hit is somewhere under 4 mil this year. not terrible. 

Quote:No worries, the league will adjust the cap to make sure the Colts and Broncos are ok.

Nah, the league is done caring about the Broncos when Manning retires at the end of this year.

 

I don't see things ending well in Miami. The Patriots going 0-4 during Brady's absence might be their only shot at a division title, and a one-and-done in the wildcard round would probably spell the end for the coaching staff. Suh's going to go into 2016 wondering why the hell he signed there. Then he'll jump into his swimming pool full of money and be ok with being stuck on a loser again.

 

The cap situation in New Orleans is probably going to end up costing Sean Payton his job. I wouldn't count him out, though. A lot of gutting was done this offseason with young talent added to replace it, and if he can have a solid team in place when Brees retires/leaves, the transition to a new QB might not kill him.

 

The Jets are screwed. Revis and Cromartie in particular don't have a lot of prime years left, and Wilkerson is probably going to end up walking away. The cap situation might also make it difficult to find a quarterback when Geno Smith tanks (again).

 

The Eagles are completely screwed. Completely, totally, incredibly screwed, but the salary cap is the last reason why.

 

It's going to be good to be the Jaguars again next offseason, with a ton of money to throw at a key free agent or two (like Wilkerson?).

Miami is not close enough to be in that much of a cap mess

According to the following recent article,   the Jaguars had $35,595,384 available salary cap dollars for 2015 as of May 20.  By far the most remaining amount of cap space for 2015 in the NFL.   Assuming that the Jags won't use most of this cap space in 2015,  isn't the unused portion of the cap space applied to the team's 2016 salary cap availability?   If yes,  the Jags will be in fantastic shape cap wise once again:

 

http://www.prideofdetroit.com/2015/5/20/...space-2015

I know Suh is a great player and will probably be in the Hall of Fame someday. But to have one player (and not a QB at that) take up 28 million, over a fifth, of your cap space is stunning.