(01-28-2018, 06:45 PM)Etdavis2006 Wrote:

(01-28-2018, 06:27 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Does that include Bortles' $19 million option for 2018?

Yep. I think the difference in the two is the adjusted cap number. Sportstrac shows were they have the adjusted salary cap due to our massive amount of roll over cap space. 

At 25 million, cuting Blake nets another 19, cutting Hurns nets another 7, Ivory for 4 and Jones for 4. This is a total of 59 million lol. That’s crazy right. We could make other cuts like Malik, Parnell or Dareus to get even more but I don’t see those guys going anywhere. These three players (not counting Blake) could be replaced easily with rookies. 

Rookie salaries would count for about 8 so 51 million. More than enough to get Cousins at 27 (if the team deems it necessary) and keep A Rob at 13 a year (Alshon Jefferies deal maybe even less). That’s would leave us at 11 million to rollover for the future.

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Button topic, it depends. If we are going after Cousins we proly have to cut Hurns to get him a and keep A rob. If we are going to keep Blake and mayb draft a rookie then we would definitely keep Hurns. I like humans would be a reliable target.

That would be for this year though. Signing Cousins would mean cap disaster in the near future. I don't wanna cut Hurns and I disagree vehemently about "easily replacing" Malik, Parnell and Dareus with rookies. We only have so many draft picks anyway and even if you do sign Cousins, we still need a TE and at least one starter at OG and a replacement for Poz. If you're talking about trying to replace Malik, Parnell and Dareus on top of that, you are creating too many needs. As it stands now our only real needs are QB, TE, interior O-Line and LB, assuming we re-sign Colvin. Cutting key players would set this team back, because we don't have enough draft picks to fill that many needs, even if we miraculously "struck gold" on all of our selections.

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