(03-09-2018, 03:24 AM)Jags02 Wrote:

(03-05-2018, 10:30 PM)knarnn Wrote: Cap numbers have been set officially at 177.2 million. Cap space not looking as nice as once thought. Which is why we won’t tag ARob.

https://twitter.com/mike_e_kaye/status/9...3246317568

Looking at the numbers, we're basically $1.3 mil under the cap, but the incentives adjustments and carry-over from 2017 added $27.8 mil. 

That just reinforces the point- there's a huge difference between being $27 million under because of rollovers, vs $27 million under the actual cap.   Since we are actually up against the cap if we don't include rollover money, that means if use all the rollover money, and we keep the exact same players at the exact same salaries, then next year we would be $27 million OVER the cap.  That's why we have to be very careful using rollover money, and probably don't want to use it all up.  

I think average Joe Fan doesn't think forward enough.  "We have $27 million, we can tag ARob, sign Colvin, get a free agent OG..."  No, we can't unless we have a plan to cut a whole bunch of players next season to get back under the cap.

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