Someone pointed out that this was a comment in one of
John McClain's blogs a few days ago.
Quote:
General,
According to Keith Weiland at inthebullseye.com: http://www.inthebullseye.com/cap2009.html
the available salary cap is $29,304,804. If you expect them to cut Ahman Green, add $2.8 million, Will Demps add $1.8 million and Greenwood add $3.2 million, that would come to approx. $37 million. Is this wrong? they don't expect to spend it all? What numbers do you have?
{Larry, I don't know anyone anywhere who knows exactly what teams have avaiilable under the cap unless they work for the team and have every salary available to them with all the clauses with bonuses and adjustments, etc. Uusally, they're several million off for a number of reasons, beginning with they -- and us -- don't know what teams are doing behind the scenes with contracts. The Texans will have more to spend than in the past, but they won't spend $30 mil guaranteed on a free agent. It's not their style. They'll use their money to re-sign their best players and then try to fill needs. They'll also keep money available for next season when injuries will cause them to sign players. Happy New Year. -- JOHN}
Posted by: Larry House at January 2, 2009 02:17 PM
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I don't know who Larry is (anyone here?), but the response is interesting. John is mostly correct. He's right in that independent salary cap pages are almost always wrong. I say so myself on the page even. But they (ItB.com's and other amateur cap pages around the league) are more accurate than ever before.
One reason of course is that we understand the rules better, that helps. It also helps that there was a leak last spring that allowed several of us (myself included) to view all the details that seem to elude the media. Hopefully John and others will help us this spring in reporting (accurate) details of the new contracts signed.