Personnel Departments and CBA Uncertainty: Good Recap

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Albert Breer, NFL.com, Feb. 18th (http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d81e60726/article/cba-uncertainty-forces-personnel-folks-to-keep-open-minds?module=HP_spotlight), does a thorough job considering the effect of CBA uncertainty (or absence) on the offseason plans of GMs and personnel deparments.

Some things of note:

1. Unable to sign free agents if there is no CBA, Undrafted Free Agents could be waiting a long time post draft to be offered contracts. And it will give teams, say like Cincinnati, who have limited scouting resources, time to catch their breath and then scout and plan accordingly. This could cut into a Thompson/Asst Coach strength.

2. There is the matter of the draft occurring before Free Agency (something I think Ron Wolf discussed before). One AFC personnel guy thinks teams will be MORE needs based since FA will not have plugged any holes. His NFC source thinks teams will be more open to all players since there will be no positions they will ignore after having spent big bucks to fill it.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d81e60726/article/cba-uncertainty-forces-personnel-folks-to-keep-open-minds?module=HP_spotlight

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Assuming the cap comes back with a new deal, does anyone have a projection of how much cap space we will have?

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Patler? :)

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Looking at 2011 salary-cap figures
February, 7, 2011 Feb 73:00PM ETEmail Print Comments15 By Pat YasinskasI just reached into the NFC South mailbag to start reading the post-Super Bowl notes. I’ll come back with some hot spots later this afternoon, but one note caught my attention because it’s worthy of an individual post.

Jonathan in Pleasant Grove, Utah, referred back to my Jan. 13 post in which I listed what each team has committed to the 2011 salary cap. He asked if I could provide numbers for the entire league. I’ll do that in a minute, but let me just clarify a couple of things. First off, some of the NFC South numbers are a bit different than they were Jan. 13 because teams have signed players to futures contracts.

As you all know, there’s a lot of uncertainty about the labor situation for 2011. These numbers don’t include what restricted free agents, exclusive-rights free agents or franchise players would count toward the cap because we don’t know that -- and won’t until there is a labor agreement in place. And, although we know there will be a 2011 draft no matter what, these numbers don’t include rookie salaries. The numbers below are only for players currently under contract for the 2011 season.

Also, we won’t know what the 2011 salary cap for all teams will be until there’s a deal in place. For reference, the salary cap in 2009, the last capped year was right about $130 million.
Arizona $83 million
Atlanta $102.1 million
Baltimore $101.3 million
Buffalo $96.4 million
Carolina $73 million
Chicago $104.9 million
Cincinnati $90.7 million
Cleveland $99.2 million
Dallas $136.6 million
Denver $125 million
Detroit $113.8 million
Green Bay $129.8 million
Houston $118.4 million
Indianapolis $115.5 million
Jacksonville $78.1 million
Kansas City $74.7 million
Miami $103.1 million
Minnesota $108.4 million
New England $102.3 million
New Orleans $105.2 million
New York Giants $126.3 million
New York Jets $128.5 million
Oakland $85.8 million
Philadelphia $80.8 million
Pittsburgh $116 million
San Diego $85.8 million
San Francisco $100.9 million
Seattle $81.1 million
St. Louis $102.4 million
Tampa Bay $59.7 million
Tennessee $107.4 million
Washington $115.2 million

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Looking at 2011 salary-cap figures

We're high...but I think we have a lot of players under contract. The total number is meaningless without that data.

Indi is at $115...without Peyton Manning, which will be a big touch.

How the hell is TB at 60 and KC at 74? There was a lot of talk about how no cap also meant no floor, that's the outcome I guess.

Surprised to see Washington at only 115.