Cuts Announced

[CrazyCanuck]

Originally Posted by SkinsRock

I agree about the FO doing a much better job lately. Plus, we are nowhere near where we were a couple years ago with "dead money", and correct me if I'm wrong, but every team has some dead money against their cap. It's something that goes along with the territory in this age of the salary cap and FA.

Ya nowadays it's almost impossible to have no dead money. Any player signed to a long term contract will inevitably lead to a "Dead Money Hit" when that player is released/traded down the road. The keys are to keep this DMH to a minimum and more importantly make sure these DMHs don't overlap (ie occur in the same year) whenever possible.

I think the Skins have been doing a good job lately in both areas.

[Gmanc711]

Originally Posted by CrazyCanuck

Ya nowadays it's almost impossible to have no dead money. Any player signed to a long term contract will inevitably lead to a "Dead Money Hit" when that player is released/traded down the road. The keys are to keep this DMH to a minimum and more importantly make sure these DMHs don't overlap (ie occur in the same year) whenever possible.

I think the Skins have been doing a good job lately in both areas.

Armstead is the only one that could even be remotley missed, and I really think we have the talent already in Peirce to be jsut fine. Peace to the rest of them. I will agree with about the FO, but its kinda hard not to improve from waht we were doing in 2000, lol, they are doing a good job right now though.

[CrazyCanuck]

I think my Bruce Smith "dead money" estimate was off above.

I believe it is actually $2.335M, bringing the 2004 dead money total to $7.441M.

[drew54]

I think we could pick up used mannequins at the JC Penny's clearence sale for about $5 that would play better than those stiffs.

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