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  • um... we won't be cutting Williams. To suggest as much is silly.

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  • Still unclear about DA's roster bonus. According to Tony Grossi, a pre-March 1 trade would allow us to pass on the $5M roster bonus to the team he's traded to. We'd still have a $4.67M cap charge from his original $7M signing bonus, but we wouldn't have to fork out an additional $5M.

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    Still unclear about DA's roster bonus. According to Tony Grossi, a pre-March 1 trade would allow us to pass on the $5M roster bonus to the team he's traded to. We'd still have a $4.67M cap charge from his original $7M signing bonus, but we wouldn't have to fork out an additional $5M.

    Aloysius said:

    Still unclear about DA's roster bonus. According to Tony Grossi, a pre-March 1 trade would allow us to pass on the $5M roster bonus to the team he's traded to. We'd still have a $4.67M cap charge from his original $7M signing bonus, but we wouldn't have to fork out an additional $5M.
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    Correct..I guess I wasn't clear enough.

    If we trade him BEFORE March 1st...we get the guarantee hit of nearly $5M...but NOT the bonus.

    If we trade him AFTER March 1st...we get hit with the guarantee AND the $5M bonus...which is why I said I highly doubt we trade him if he is hear AFTER March 1st.

  • ThaakT Thaak

    um... we won't be cutting Williams. To suggest as much is silly.

    @thaak said:

    um... we won't be cutting Williams. To suggest as much is silly.

    i know, his contract just sucks. his cap number in 2009 is essentially what richard seymour's was in 2008 (8.23 for williams vs. 8.39 for seymour).

  • What is stated here is the cap hit if they remain on our team for 2009. If cut we would save that (if it isn't guaranteed). But, what you fail to note is what parts of their original contracts were defeffed over the length of the contract. That whole amount would come due as a cap hit.

    For instance a player signed a 4 year contract and he was paid a $8 million bonus up front. Even though he already received the money, the NFL spreads the $8 million over the 4 years for cap purposes. So as long as he is on the team under that contract, $2 million a year would be the cap hit + his salary. If the player is cut or traded, the entire rest of that prorated bonus is applied to your cap. The only exception is if the player is cut after June 1st then it can be divided between this year and next year.

    Some of the players listed above will be asked to rework their contracts so the signing bonus they receive this year won't all count against the cap this year.

  • question,, if by chance we could lets say trade da to a team needing a qb,and they had a lets say, rb or lb with a salary in the 5 mill. range ,,how does that work out ?

  • T thedawgs

    question,, if by chance we could lets say trade da to a team needing a qb,and they had a lets say, rb or lb with a salary in the 5 mill. range ,,how does that work out ?

    @thedawgs said:

    question,, if by chance we could lets say trade da to a team needing a qb,and they had a lets say, rb or lb with a salary in the 5 mill. range ,,how does that work out ?

    They don't trade contracts, only the players. The new team must accept the current contract language or re-negotiate a new one.

  • what's the point of having antwaan peek on your team? he plays in three games a year.

  • Yiddish is a language...I believe Jew is still the preferred nomenclature although it has been used in a pejorative manner throughout history...

  • mz the pussy's right about yiddish being a language, but jews were pejoratively called 'yids' for a while.

    i guess you could go with semitic italian if you wanted to un-jew it, or de-jew it.

    and the puerto rican riff was great, though this season of 30 rock hasn't been quite as good as the first two.

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