Buzz: Jets Have $10 Million in Cap Space?
According to Len Pasquarelli on ESPN Insider, the Jets are ranked 10th with just over $10 million, while the league average is $9.8 million.
If you have been scratching your head why players like McCareins or Barton haven’t been pushed out the door, this is the proof.
With the new CBA, this is unprecedented flexibility across most of the league. With one of the league’s smallest rookie classes (and thus rookie caps) the Jets still have plenty of breathing room to make a late veteran addition or two, or use the money on players they want to retain going into their last year of their deal.
This is just all the more reason to believe that the Kendall situation is one about principle for Mangini & Tannenbaum.
4 Responses to Buzz: Jets Have $10 Million in Cap Space?
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Harlan Lachman says:
Bent, I think you are overpricing our rookie committments which I believe to be less than $5 mil (one would think it should be less with only three draftees but I think the amount per team is fixed).
More to the point, Tangini chose to open TC with $10 mil of space and some suspect players who were not forced to renegotiate (Barrett, Barton, McYawn) and no improvements to our OL. (One could argue LB, S, TE, and NT too but except for some one dimensional TE and Randy McM, I challenge anyone to list a gotta have him other than Adelius T at those positions).
But numerous upgrades to OL signed for big bucks with other teams. We chose not to play. If the line plays as poorly this year as last, that is the big story behind this story.
Given the huge increase in cap space, anyone who anticipates a cut occuring who could start on our team is dreaming.
harlan
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Bent says: Actually I was working on 4m for the rookies and 4m for other bonuses. JetsCentral reports the same thing. However, if a move is required, I’m sure we can shuffle the pack.
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This article shows that the Jets will have allocated to them under $3 million for rookies.
Note: this is before bonus commitments and rookie salaries. The actual available money if we wanted to add any further players is probably closer to $2m.