Cap

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by WMH

They may not be done just yet....

From PFT:
We previously obtained the salary cap room (or lack thereof) for each team as of Tuesday. Several of you have asked for something more current.

Your wish is our command.

Here’s the info as of Thursday.

The teams with cap space, a day before all teams must be in compliance, are as follows: Buccaneers ($ 29,560,000); Chiefs ($ 28,431,000); Jaguars ($ 28,000,000); Browns ($ 27,620,000); Bengals ($ 27,164,000); Broncos ($26,542,000); Bills ($ 23,460,000); 49ers ($ 22,570,000); Bears ($ 19,300,000); Seahawks ($ 16,387,000); Cardinals ($ 14,603,000); Redskins ($ 11,450,000); Packers ($ 11,106,000); Jets ($ 8,920,000); Dolphins ($ 8,446,000); Colts ($7,925,000); Titans ($ 7,127,000); Saints ($ 7,027,000); Patriots ($ 5,264,000); Chargers ($ 5,031,000); Eagles ($4,604,000); Ravens ($ 3,558,000); Panthers ($ 1,915,000); Vikings ($ 938,000); Falcons ($811,000); Giants ($623,000); Rams ($621,000).

The teams in the red are: Raiders ($15,246,000); Steelers ($8,597,000); Lions ($7,793,000); Cowboys ($6,671,000); and Texans ($3,358,000).
By tomorrow at 4:00 p.m., there should be no teams in the red.

This is supposedly thru today, doesn't give a definitive time line, IE does this include Smith, Ryans, and AJ's restructures, but would assume it does.

Since their "only" $3.5MM away, I still look for the Schaub extension to happen. My hunch, and I have absolutely no basis for this, is that they didn't want to have practice this morning with 1 QB, so they are waiting till the CBA is ratified to pull the trigger on it. Since it was ratified today, they have till 4PM tomorrow to be in compliance.

AJ wouldn't have practiced anyway, unlikely Demeco would have either. No harm in giving an older feller like Smith a day off in this heat....

Could be right, could be wrong, but if they are still truly $3.5MM over, Schaub's extension continues to be a no-brainer (in my eyes).

My take on this is that since the Texans reported to McClain that they are under the cap, that they are under the cap. I would think PFT would be the number that is delayed or incorrect.

Also McClain reported in an early report that the Texans had taken the 3MM exemption from another year this year, is PFT counting those dollars also?

[WMH]

Originally Posted by painekiller

My take on this is that since the Texans reported to McClain that they are under the cap, that they are under the cap. I would think PFT would be the number that is delayed or incorrect.

Also McClain reported in an early report that the Texans had taken the 3MM exemption from another year this year, is PFT counting those dollars also?

Yepper, your right. Tweet from Jabba this morning:
@McClain_on_NFL: By restructuring the contracts of Andre Johnson, DeMeco Ryans and Antonio Smith, the Texans are $2.6 million under the salary cap.

[Keith]

Ok, started work this morning pulling together salary and bonus date to hopefully someday get a 2011 and 2012 cap page put back up on the site.

Need some help tracking down bonus info for a couple rookies: Keo, Yates, Ozougwu, plus a I gave a decent estimate on Ben Tate, but nothing specific. I'm also making a guesstimate on Kareem Jackson's bonus info (guaranteed money != signing bonus . . . all reports I have talk about KJack's guaranteed money).

Also, Kevin Walter's bonus from his new contract last year is actually a roster bonus (this is good news). Makes me wonder about other signings from last year (like Wade Smith) and whether that was a roster bonus vs. a signing bonus. It's a big difference since a 2010 roster bonus has no cap implications.

I don't have info yet on the restructured contracts, so I might have to guess there. Andre Johnson's deal just keeps getting more complex, lol. I'm also locked out from getting base salary data whenever I want, though I got some fresh info yesterday, which helps a ton.

Ok, fingers crossed...