Apparently if you miss the entire year on suspension, you don't count that year against the cap. Blackmon's entire cap, signing bonus hit and all, appears to have been wiped off the 2014 books. My hunch here is that everything is pushed back a year including the date he's set to be a free agent. I vaguely recall Vic saying this is how it works.
In a recent jaguars.com article about Blackmon, Caldwell mentions...
<p style="margin-left:40px;">Caldwell also said Blackmon would be a $1.7 million cap hit if he plays next season, and that because he is not currently on the roster and not counting against the cap, bringing Blackmon back is not a risk for the organization.
If you look at Justin's cap details, he had a $1.7 roster bonus due in 2014. I'm fairly sure this "hit" is this roster bonus, and that it would be on top of his base salary and yearly SB hit.
Quote:Pay it all day!
fo sho
Let him come back, play solid football for a year to get his value up, and if he makes it through without any more suspensions, trade him away and let him be someone else's headache.
We don't even know if he will be the same player, hopefully but nobody knows
If it wastes no money then who cares, keep him around.
Quote:We don't even know if he will be the same player, hopefully but nobody knows
He won't be the same player. Being out of football for 2 years, no matter how much he practiced, there's no way to emulate real game action, so we will see endless soft tissue injuries, hamstring pulls, etc., until some point late in September when he's put on IR.
One thing Gene got right was Blackmons contract
Quote:Let him come back, play solid football for a year to get his value up, and if he makes it through without any more suspensions, trade him away and let him be someone else's headache.
This sounds like the ideal move. I'm not sure how likely it is to happen, but If he comes back and plays at a somewhat decent level, I'd like to see how much value he'd get on the trading block.
Quote:Apparently if you miss the entire year on suspension, you don't count that year against the cap. Blackmon's entire cap, signing bonus hit and all, appears to have been wiped off the 2014 books. My hunch here is that everything is pushed back a year including the date he's set to be a free agent. I vaguely recall Vic saying this is how it works.
In a recent jaguars.com article about Blackmon, Caldwell mentions...
<p style="margin-left:40px;">Caldwell also said Blackmon would be a $1.7 million cap hit if he plays next season, and that because he is not currently on the roster and not counting against the cap, bringing Blackmon back is not a risk for the organization.
If you look at Justin's cap details, he had a $1.7 roster bonus due in 2014. I'm fairly sure this "hit" is this roster bonus, and that it would be on top of his base salary and yearly SB hit.
That is correct in regard to the contract. That's why it would have been silly to cut ties with Blackmon back when many here were calling for it.
Quote:One thing Gene got right was Blackmons contract
Except he didn't do the contracts.
Just pay it, who cares. If he comes back he'll be worth 10 mill a year.
I hope he comes back and tears it up for 10 years. I'm not gonna pretend to know which way it will go.
Just consider this, A man is giving up some of his favorite comforts (Weed/Alcohol) to come back into the NFL. He is going to be one motivated person. I do expect growing pains but I also expect growth.
Quote:Apparently if you miss the entire year on suspension, you don't count that year against the cap. Blackmon's entire cap, signing bonus hit and all, appears to have been wiped off the 2014 books. My hunch here is that everything is pushed back a year including the date he's set to be a free agent. I vaguely recall Vic saying this is how it works.
In a recent jaguars.com article about Blackmon, Caldwell mentions...
<p class="bbc_indent" style="margin-left:40px;">Caldwell also said Blackmon would be a $1.7 million cap hit if he plays next season, and that because he is not currently on the roster and not counting against the cap, bringing Blackmon back is not a risk for the organization.
If you look at Justin's cap details, he had a $1.7 roster bonus due in 2014. I'm fairly sure this "hit" is this roster bonus, and that it would be on top of his base salary and yearly SB hit.
According to an article posted in another thread, his contract is basically frozen in time and will resume when he is reinstated. He doesn't count toward the cap until he's reinstated, and the Jags will still have 3 years to decide what to do with him at the point he returns. That's why there was absolutely no reason for the team to cut him and move on. It's costing them nothing to keep him and decide their next move when he's back.
I take it he can't actually return to the roster until March 10, the start of the new league year.
Salivating over the fact that Blackmon could be back with us.
His rookie year, with Gabbert and Henne throwing to him, he had 865 yards / 5 Tds / 64 rec / and a long 81 yard catch!! Remarkable, when you consider he played with two of the most incapable QB's to ever play on an NFL field.
Last year he had 29 receptions/ 415 yards in 4 games... with Chad freakin Henne and Gabbs!
With a new OC, Robinson, Lee, Hurns, pending FA/draft pick, AND BLACKMON!!?!
WE would be UNSTOPPABLE!!!!!
...but one can dream. Here's to hoping he's fully recovered!
Quote:Just consider this, A man is giving up some of his favorite comforts (Weed/Alcohol) to come back into the NFL. He is going to be one motivated person. I do expect growing pains but I also expect growth.
This is actually true he's clearly showing Committment to the team and is still young enough to play for 10 more years.
Regardless of his NFL future I hope he has put his problems behind him.
Quote:I take it he can't actually return to the roster until March 10, the start of the new league year.
Caldwell said they expect to hear from the league around draft time, so even after March 10.
People keep saying, "what if he comes back all injury prone or a shadow of what he was?" Well, what if he comes back even better than what he was before?