Figuring out the cap

zn wrote:

The cap goes up and down by the day, and I don’t remember how much they had to start with when all the recent stuff began. Someone else might know that. Ag?

So I can’t do the math, just add up the expenditures.

All you stuff is correct. But, lets start with 11 million figure given by JT and Wagoner. Then you figure in all the expense for the year. etc. etc. Short answer, the Rams can write a contract/s that add approx. 4 million in cap to this years cap. They can do this without making any other moves. imo

You could give Barksdale any kind of contract, 2 years 4 years, whatever, as long as the hit this year was less than 4 million. If you wanted to squeeze the cap, you could write a couple of vet minimum contracts, too. But then you would probably have to make some adjustments during the year, especially if you started having injuries that meant you had to IR players. imo

As long as the Rams stay at about 5 million a year with Barksdale, I see no problems this year or next or the next. Remember too, Demoff wanted to extend Bradford, this was before his second knee injury. So, I am sure he had Bradford budgeted in the future years cap space. Paying the going rate for a QB in the future should be no problem. Of course you would be better if you spend that money elsewhere, but who has everything. 😉

• This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by Agamemnon.

zn wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

All you stuff is correct. But, lets start with 11 million figure given by JT and Wagoner. Then you figure in all the expense for the year. etc. etc. Short answer, the Rams can write a contract/s that add approx. 4 million in cap to this years cap. They can do this without making any other moves. imo

You could give Barksdale any kind of contract, 2 years 4 years, whatever, as long as the hit this year was less than 4 million. If you wanted to squeeze the cap, you could write a couple of vet minimum contracts, too. But then you would probably have to make some adjustments during the year, especially if you started having injuries that meant you had to IR players. imo

Okay.

But this is what confuses me. The figures I present there are around 30 M. But for those figures to add up to be around 30 M, and to have around 10 M left (with Barnes), then, that means somewhere along the line they were 40 under. Not all at once, but in different stages, in this off-season, they musta had 40 M to spend, total.

I don’t remember what they had before all this activity happened, so I don’t know how they did that. Not that it matters. Just curious.

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Right, we don’t have to know how they got to their destination, only if they got there. Anyway, that is bookkeeping. I like math, not bookkeeping. 😉

I don’t chase details, but did you add the amount the cap increased? Did you add the credit from Finnegan? etc. etc.

Barnes is small change, pocket money.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by Agamemnon.
• This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by Agamemnon.

Barnes counts $710K against the 2015 cap. Rams now have $9.82 million in cap space.

— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) April 2, 2015

Ok, it looks like the cap space is 10 million, not 11 million like they were saying. But, it is not a big deal. It does change my estimation of how much they can add in cap space with new contracts to ~3 million instead of the old estimate of ~4 million.

zn wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

Ok, it looks like the cap space is 10 million, not 11 million like they were saying. But, it is not a big deal. It does change my estimation of how much they can add in cap space with new contracts to ~3 million instead of the old estimate of ~4 million.

And of course there’s still some cuts and tweaks they can do to get more.

Right, my number is based on them not doing anything. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have much meaning. 😉

Herzog wrote:

So that means just one free agent o-lineman.

Joe Barksdale? Just hoping.