(08-30-2020, 04:18 PM)JAGFAN4EVER! Wrote: Does Khan keep the FO and coaching staff for 2021 regardless of record? I hope not.

2021 Total Cap Liabilities: $131,588,000

• Top 51: $119,591,663
  
• Team Cap Space: $89,656,498 (Currently)
  

• Offense: $59,633,455
  
  
• Defense: $62,158,970
  
  
• Special: $6,943,239
  

Draft Picks: (Currently)

Round One: Jags, Rams
Round Two: Jags, Vikings
Round Three: Jags
Round Four: Jags Rams
Round Five: Jags
Round Six: Jags
Round Seven: Jags

With said Cap space above, the following current players will be off the books for 2021: (From top 51 Salaries 2020)

Fournette
Hayden
Abry Jones
Smoot
Conley
Cole
Westbrook
Cam Robinson
Thompson
Shatley
Marsh
Jernigan
Glennon
Brock
Dobbs
Herndon
Davis

I don't see many players here the Jags will resign above with the exception of a few stop gap players, or players that improve in 2020. IMO Hayden would be my first player to resign. My stop gap players (Depth) if they are not picked up by anyone else and have a successful 2020 year would be Jernigan, Smoot, Cole, Robinson, Shatley, and Herndon. None of these players will require a huge mega contract in 2021 leaving the Jags with tons, TONS of cap space in FA. 

Notable FA's: (I'm sure there are more)

Juju Smith - WR
Chris Godwin - WR
Will Fuller - WR
Cooper Kupp - WR

Hunter Henry - TE


Ronnie Stanley - T
David Bakhtiari -T

Joe Thuney - G

Matt Judon - Edge
Melvin Ingram - Edge

Shaq Griffin - CB

So there is most definitely lots of potential both in the draft and FA to rebuilt a solid team with the current young talent the Jags have going into 2021. Who will be driving the franchise both in the FO and Coaching staff? I like Martin Mayhew (for GM), and Robert Saleh (for Head Coach). Mayhew has the experience and is probably itching for another opportunity to run an organization, and what do I need to say about Saleh. Saleh brings the JUICE and should see interest as a HC in 2021. 

IMO these two would recruit a strong FO and coaching staff to bring back Jacksonville to a respectable level. 

What say you......

I like the thinking ahead aspect of your post.

However, that's also the flaw in your post.

Because of Covid 19, next year's cap talk is largely moot.  The salary cap is based on revenues, and i can not imagine revenues being high enough this year to meet the expected cap next year.  Unless there is a major agreement to adjust the salaries somehow, the cap should be appreciably lower than it is this year, and a lot more people around the league will be cut.

On a related note, projecting next year's free agency is a crap shoot in regular years.  We all start of salivation over lists of potential free agents, only to find that once free agency has arrived, most of them have either been franchised by their original teams, or they have been re-signed.  Factoring the salary cap and Covid related chaos, there's no telling who and who will not be available on the open market next spring.

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