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Old 01-11-2005, 02:50 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon
I'll defer to Crazy Canuck on this one but at the moment I don't think the Skins are able to franchise Smoot. He would count immediately as a $7.5M figure on their cap and I think they only have $4M in room.

So in order to franchise him, there would have to other moves to save $3.5M immediately. And the only way to do that is to cut players who have only trivial signing bonuses left to amortize.

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72
They still have plenty of time to clear room, once Samuels restructures, and that should be soon, that will clear up a nice chunk of cap space.
Both good points and I agree with both. After some housecleaning they should be able to fit Smoot's tag price under the cap. That being said, I don't think we can afford to keep him at the tag price. It's gotta be a tag-and-trade or no tag at all.
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