clearwater cadet Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 What about the 9.8 mill roll over from 2012, where does that count in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QCity Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 What about the 9.8 mill roll over from 2012, where does that count in? I didn't include it. Have the Bills requested that $9.8M? I didn't hear anything unless I missed it. I believe they have until 2 weeks before the season starts to request it...which would have been yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papazoid Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I didn't include it. Have the Bills requested that $9.8M? I didn't hear anything unless I missed it. I believe they have until 2 weeks before the season starts to request it...which would have been yesterday. http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2012/story/_/id/8822266/nfl-mailbag-carryover-rules-impact-cap-strategyThe NFL’s projected salary cap for this year is $121(actually closer to $123) million per team. That’s up less than $1 million from last season. Each team is allowed to roll over unused cap space from last year, if it so chooses. The Bills rolled over $9.8 million in unused space, so their actual cap limit is $130.4 million http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130213/SPORTS/130219671/1082 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papazoid Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 expected league wide cap is $123 mil........plus Bills $9.8 in carryover....for a total of $133 mil.....without kelsay we are now at $103 mil......currently $30 mil below the cap.......out of that you need $5 mil for 2013 draft picks.......$6-7 mil for Byrd and $8-9 mil for Levitre.......that leaves you about $10 mil for additional free agent(s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloRebound Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 That's what I get. They have us at $103M - $30M prorated bonuses giving us about $73M in cash expenses. So with a cap of $123M, yeah, about $50M to spend. Before anyone goes bananas, remember that's cash to cap accounting. Watch how fast it goes... Last year's #8 pick got a $7.6M signing bonus with a base salary for a total hit of $8M Our 2nd round pick with get about a $2M signing bonus with a base salary for a total hit of around $2.5M There will be a slight increase this year and then factor in all the other draft picks. So estimate we will need to spend about $15M just on draft picks. Subtract that from our $50M and we are left with $35M. Now let's say we re-sign both Byrd and Levitre. Say we get Byrd at 5yrs $35M and Levitre at 6yrs $40M (guessing). Both will want guarantees of about $15-$18M with a signing bonus of at least $10M. Even with back-loaded contracts that only pay $1M each this season, combine that with their $10M signing bonuses and it adds up to $22M. So that's a generous estimate IMO but subtract that from $35M and we are quickly left with only $13M to spend. And we haven't signed any outside free agents yet. Could we land a FA like Bowe or Jennings or Kruger? Possible but not likely. I'd say lower tier FAs like Dustin Keller and Mike DeVito are much more realistic. (that is, if we re-sign both Levitre and Byrd - and of course we may not be done cutting everyone yet) I think we can eliminate possibility of any decent free agent WR or TE coming here with current QB situation. That $13m or so will probably buy a few starters on the defensive side of the ball. Would be nice to get a WR and QB with our first 2 picks in the draft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibs Posted March 1, 2013 Author Share Posted March 1, 2013 expected league wide cap is $123 mil........plus Bills $9.8 in carryover....for a total of $133 mil.....without kelsay we are now at $103 mil......currently $30 mil below the cap.......out of that you need $5 mil for 2013 draft picks.......$6-7 mil for Byrd and $8-9 mil for Levitre.......that leaves you about $10 mil for additional free agent(s). Usually the 1st year of any large deal has a lesser cap hit than the average year of the deal. This is due to both the SB coming through(leading to a lesser 1st year base salary)....and the latter years often having an inflationary type effect pushing them higher. It wouldn't surprise me if Byrd & Levitre could both be signed for less than 10m of 2013 cap dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QCity Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 The Bills rolled over $9.8 million in unused space, so their actual cap limit is $130.4 million http://www.buffalone.../130219671/1082 Ahhh I did not know they requested the full $9.8M. So tack that onto the $13M estimate and all of a sudden you have $23M available in cash to cap dollars. This might be an interesting FA season after all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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