Archuleta traded to Bears for 6th round pick

What's going to be great is to see us play Chicago this season. It will be interesting to see if (a) he plays with fire and Lovie Smith can utilize him properly or (b) he gets burnt like toast by Campbell.

Dont forget Lloyd I still
hope that works out! FO can't be o for three! Can they?

so just hope that leaves us with room for the draft picks. if not then no draft this yr and just trade all pick for future picks.. i know we were close to having that much in cap space. which espn link states in the first sentence of the 4th paragraph "To complete this complicated deal, the Bears had to rework his contract." so we have to see what the deal was but they did rework it. because by that statement the redskins wouldnt have went through with it until his contract was reworked to help out cap a little bit.

I highly doubt that we would have dumped him unless we got some cap relief through a restructure. I can't see us taking a $7M cap hit this season.Schneed thinks that we have enough cap room to get all of our picks in even after eating Arch's full contract.

After looking at the numbers, I agree with him. It's going to be by the Skins of our teeth though.

No pun intended.

I think we have about 3 million free right now.

We can sign the No. 6 pick and 4 others with that.

Yeah, but teams usually keep about $1-$2M in reserve and we will likely sign a few more players right after the draft or June 1.

What's going to be great is to see us play Chicago this season. It will be interesting to see if (a) he plays with fire and Lovie Smith can utilize him properly or (b) he gets burnt like toast by Campbell.I personally think he will be quite healthy this year, and return to his STL form of being solid but unspectacular.

Patten is getting cut,

Yeah, but teams usually keep about $1-$2M in reserve and we will likely sign a few more players right after the draft or June 1.I think we'd need to free up more cap room then.

It seems, at least, like we have a plan to get out of this cap situation. It seems like every move made this offseason has been carefully calculated.

I would be shocked if we don't get Cooley locked up before he hits the market next year.

I saw at NFL.com - NFL News (http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story/10033511) that it said a conditional 6th round pick, and on ESPN.com - NFL - Skins agree to trade S Archuleta to Bears for pick (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2806226) in 2007 so how is he gonna perform between now and draft day to determine if that pick gets better?


or am i wrong thinking that the pick could become a better pick for us?

Patten is getting cut,

Yeah, Patten and Wynn also from what I heard. That will bump that $3M in current space up to a figure perfect to sign our draft picks and maybe 1 more FA after June 1st. Anybody have any word on whether or not we're bringing in Ian Scott and/or Ed Mulitalo for a visit?