(03-09-2022, 06:02 PM)I am Yoda Wrote:

(03-09-2022, 04:56 PM)NCJag Wrote: Looking at "Over the Cap", we could definitely create even MORE space by cutting Brandon Linder/Carlos Hyde. Between the two of them, the team could free up an additional 11.5 million in cap space with a dead money hit of less than half a million. That would put them back at almost 50 million in cap space to play with even after Cam Robinson's tag is applied.

I think we'd be foolish to cut Linder.  OTH, why the heck is Hyde still on the roster???

NCJag's original e-mail is a little misleading in almost all of that cap savings results from Linder.  Cutting Hyde would save us less than $2 million and that assumes we went with 52 players.  Even if you factor a rookie minimum salary as his replacement, the savings comes to about $1.3 million. The savings is even less if we replace him with a veteran.  The point is that there's no significant cap savings by cutting Hyde.  

As for Linder, I wouldn't go as far to call it "foolish", but I would keep him.  We already have a bunch of holes to fill on the team, let's not create more.  We don't know how the draft will fall and I don't like reaching for a need.  Rookies also sometimes take time to develop.  If there's good value at center in the draft in the mid or late rounds, we can still take him.  He can be a backup for a year and if he looks good, he can take over next year as our center for the future.

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