He should be a bargain on the Salary Cap.
One less position of need in the draft.
We might get a comp pick for Mannion this year and Bortles next year?
I liked Mannion, but I think the Rams come out ahead with Bortles.

https://www.nflpa.com/public-salary-cap-report

This seems like the best place to get numbers on a team’s Salary Cap.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001022931/article/former-jaguars-qb-blake-bortles-set-to-visit-rams
Former Jaguars QB Blake Bortles set to visit Rams

Two days later and roughly 3,000 miles away, Blake Bortles seems to have found himself a suitor.

Bortles, who was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars on Wednesday, is scheduled to visit the Los Angeles Rams on Monday, NFL Network’s Michael Silver reported, per a team source, on Friday evening.

The former first-round pick could be a veteran backup for starter Jared Goff.

The No. 3 overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft by the Jaguars, Bortles went 24-49 as a starter in Jacksonville. He’s coming off a forgettable season in 2018 in which he was 3-9 as a first-stringer with 2,718 yards passing, 13 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. Still, he’s a quarterback with five years of starting experience who helped the Jaguars to the AFC Championship Game in 2017, which is a fine resume for any reserve QB.

Goff started all 16 games during the Rams’ run to the Super Bowl, throwing all but seven of the team’s passes in 2018. Punter Johnny Hekker tossed four passes and backup QB Sean Mannion threw three.

Mannion is now a free agent. Currently, the Rams’ only other quarterback on the roster is Brandon Allen, who coincidentally is also a former Jaguars draft pick.

So Bortles might be heading to a title contender.

Perhaps it’s fitting. Bortles was released by Jacksonville after it signed former Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles and now he might be backing up the quarterback of the Super Bowl runner-up.

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ESPN.com: NFL
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Jags cut QB Bortles loose after signing Foles
By Michael DiRocco

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jaguars waived quarterback Blake Bortles on Wednesday, cutting ties with the player they drafted third overall in 2014 after five tumultuous seasons, just hours after signing free-agent quarterback Nick Foles.

The move will cost the Jaguars $16.5 million in dead money but also save the team $4.3 million against the salary cap in 2019. Bortles was guaranteed to make $6.5 million this season and was due a $1 million roster bonus on the fifth day of the league year.

Cutting Bortles was expected after the team benched him for backup Cody Kessler and fired offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett on Nov. 26, one day after the team lost at the Buffalo Bills. Bortles threw for 127 yards and a touchdown with two interceptions in that game, one week after throwing for 104 yards in a home loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Bortles sat out the next three games, played in relief of an injured Kessler in the Jaguars’ victory at the Miami Dolphins in Week 16 and started the final game of the season. He threw for 107 yards with an interception in the Week 17 loss at the Houston Texans. Bortles finished his fifth season completing a career-high 60.8 percent of his passes for 2,718 yards and 13 touchdowns with 11 interceptions in 13 games.

Bortles had an up-and-down career with the Jaguars. He set single-season franchise records in passing yards (4,428) and passing touchdowns (35) in his second season, but he followed that with a disastrous 2016. His mechanics — especially his elongated delivery — deteriorated. He threw 16 interceptions (including three pick-sixes). He was admittedly somewhat of a mental mess. And the Jaguars won just three games.

The first part of the 2017 season wasn’t much better. Bortles had a five-interception practice early in training camp and got pulled from a practice days later. Coach Doug Marrone opened up the quarterback job after Bortles’ dismal performance in the second preseason game.

But Bortles won the job back, played solidly but not spectacularly for much of the season, was the league’s top-rated QB for three weeks in December, then played turnover-free football in three playoff games. He completed 60 percent of his passes for the first time and cut down on his turnovers significantly (16, which was five less than his average during his first three seasons).

Bortles’ performance in the playoffs — 594 yards, three TD passes and no turnovers in the Jaguars’ run to the AFC Championship Game — after his improvement in the regular season was what clinched the front office’s decision to sign him to a three-year extension worth $54 million with $26.5 million guaranteed.

That move drew heavy criticism from the national media and anonymous league executives. Bortles quieted those critics with a good first month of the 2018 season: He completed 64.7 percent of his passes for 1,095 yards and seven touchdowns with three interceptions. Bortles threw for 376 yards and four touchdowns in a Week 2 victory over the New England Patriots and 388 yards and two TDs two weeks later in a win versus the New York Jets.

Bortles’ season devolved after that. He threw for a career-high 430 yards but also committed a career-high five turnovers (four interceptions) in a loss at the Kansas City Chiefs, including an interception that bounced off an offensive lineman’s helmet. Bortles was benched early in the second half two weeks later after he lost a pair of fumbles, but he regained his starting job before finally losing it after the Buffalo loss.

The Jaguars scored just two offensive touchdowns in the five games after Bortles’ benching — a Kessler pass to Dede Westbrook and a Leonard Fournette run.

Bortles is second in Jaguars history in passing yards (17,646) and passing touchdowns (103) in 72 starts, but his maddening inconsistency is making the franchise start over at the position.

Bortles is one of only 15 quarterbacks to surpass 100 touchdown passes (he has 103) since he entered the league in 2014, but he also leads all signal-callers in interceptions (75) and all players in turnovers (94) during that span.

The way I understand it, Bortles already has $10M of the $16.5M that is owed him from the Jags. The $10M was part of a bonus payment he got last year. They also guaranteed $6.5M in salary for this year. Whatever salary another team pays Blake, the Jags can subtract that from the $6.5M they owe him. Of course some team could pay him more than that and the Jags would be entirely of the hook. In theory the Rams could get him for minimum wage. If Bortles does nothing this year he gets $6.5M.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1VRvNtz_Wg

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Rapaport and the NFL Network guys think Mathews is coming to LA

Don’t know how much he has left in the tank but a lot of experts think he does have something left to offer ….he would be a good leader for our young LB’s though.

Trying to find the video link

If the Rams don’t go edge with their first pick, there isn’t a good edge at the end of round 3, and they want to draft say, an Oline and a Qb, Then edge almost has to be addressed predraft. imo

Spotrac Estimated Cap Space: $8,033,193
Over the Cap Team Cap Space: $8,767,895
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The biggest difference is John Sullivan’s dead money. Spotrac books $1,000,000. OTC doesn’t.
According to Vinnie, it should really be a $1M credit which neither have?
Spotrac picked up Brown.
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They both still have the booking errors on Higbee and Blythe. That would add ~$2.6M to the Rams’ Cap Space.
Welcome to the world of the Salary Cap where nothing comes out exactly right. 😉
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The easiest way for the Rams to get more money is to restructure Donanld’s ~$9M dollar salary for this year.
?They could extend Peters’ contract and restructure his $9M dollar salary?
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The Rams can still do whatever they want. They could trade for a high priced DE and make it work. They could have signed Saffold if they wanted. I don’t know how wise that would have been, but they could have found the money. And their Cap Space is probably about $12M. But I have no way of proving that. It is just my opinion.

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by Agamemnon.

Good luck, Roger. I thought the Rams might go as high as $10M/yr for 3 years. I think the extra year killed the deal as much as anything. imo

The Rams have just under $18 million in cap space, according to OverTheCap.com.

OvertheCap is confusing everybody, because they are a bit slow in posting changes. They have NOT accounted for the $9M+ the Rams used for RFAs.