(03-09-2022, 08:24 PM)TheDuke007 Wrote:

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