Quote:That says he will cost about $4M in 2015 if he's kept at his current contract vs. nothing if he's cut. Of course Alfie could be wrong. Maybe Alfie just meant that there would be no additional cap hit if he were cut.


The third option is to offer him a new contract to stay that is commensurate with his level of play. That's what I see happening, and what I think the Jags should do. Say he gets a $1.5M offer for 2015. That's probably still more than any other team would offer. The extra $2.5M could be the additional signing bonus amount needed to win the bidding on (say) a good free agent free safety. Besides the waste of cap space that would be better spent on an impact player, f
or Alualu to make more than the starting defensive linemen is detrimental to the team morale.

I don't care what Alfie says. Alualu's salary for 2015 is $2.44 million. With remaining bonus and other costs his cap hit could very well be $4 million but I haven't looked it his contract in detail.


Regardless of how big his cap figure is, the argument remains the same; players are graded compared to other players, not their cap figure.

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