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1. Trade Gardner before the draft or cut him after June 1st. This saves us 2 million dollars next year.
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A trade is certainly an option but they won't cut him. Rangy WRs who will go over the middle are in short supply. He isn't a superstar but replacing his value would be difficult to do and basically eat any cap room cerated by this. It might even cost more.
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2. Trade Samuels before the draft of cut him after June 1st (if he doesn't renegotiate). This would create around a 4 million dollar cap hit, but save us about 5 million dollars in cap room next year.
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This is the biggie. Samuels HAS to renegotiate or he's gone. They will never keep him with his crazy cap number next year and the super crazy number after that. It's like 7 million or more isn't it? I would be very suprised if they cut him since he is in the prime of his career but a trade maybe. This is a toughie.
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3. Cut Barrow after June 1st. This would save us 2 million in room in 2005, and cost us around a 2.25 million dollar hit in 2006.
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I think Barrow is gone. Unless he comes back this year and shows some pop. He'll absolutly need to renegotiate either way as the Skins won't keep him for the money and no ther tem will pay him what we are paying him.
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4. Keep Brunell for one year, and then cut him after June 1, 2006. (I really hope he renegotiates) This would save us 5.4 million dollars in 2006 (which we will desperately need) and cost us about 4 million in dead cap room the following year.
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I think Brunell is a stand up guy and all but I would be stunned if he renegotiated. There would be no benefit to him at all and honestly you'd have to be a damn saint to give up money. His deal is for 7 years with a big old bonos. To make it worthwhile to the team to renegotiate the skins would need to lower the base salary(unguranteed). To do this though Brunell would want to get more in siging bonus(guranteed). To give more in bonus they'd have to lengthen the deal to spread out and hopefully lower the yearly prorated bonus. He'll have 6 left after this year and if anyone sees them extending the deal you're looney. For anything to work they have to keep Brunell playing for at least two more years so the remaining bonus money becomes managable as a cap hit. Sorry guys but he isn't going anywhere and if he does then our cap is in trouble.
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5. Cut Wynn after June 1st 2005 (if he doesn't renegotiate). This will save us about 4.5 million dollars in 2006 and the cap hit for 2007 will be less than 1 million dollars.
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They'll renegotiate this or he's gone. No way they pay Winn 4.5 next year. He'll probably want to renegotiate.
One thing that might help us is having a good defense and keeping williams around. Players may want to stick around a little more with a stud defense and good coordinator. This may help aleviate the money situation a bit.