Josh Sitton.

[gbgary]

he would have given his all this year, being a contract year, so they should have kept him and put the best o-line possible out there for Rodgers. now you've got a backup starting and a #3 backing him up. maybe a wise $ decision but not a good football decision.

[gbgary]

You cut the players that aren't performing up to their contract. That was not the case with sitton

this!

[Harlan Huckleby]

maybe a wise $ decision but not a good football decision.

Since Sitton's contract is expiring at end of this season, it isn't even that compelling of a money decision, at least from cap perspective.

(What's that quote from some rich guy, "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you are talking serious money.")

[Joemailman]

Since Sitton's contract is expiring at end of this season, it isn't even that compelling of a money decision, at least from cap perspective.

Sure it is. That money can be used to sign other players to extensions, or the money can be carried over to next year.

[Rastak]

Sure it is. That money can be used to sign other players to extensions, or the money can be carried over to next year.

Although you must admit, Ted usually lets them play out that last year so he can get a pick in the compensation system. Plus, I believe they already have plenty of cap space.

[hoosier]

Don't let it be said that TT never cuts his own draft picks.

[pbmax]

if he is playing on big contracts to a few of them, then the money from this year can be used to mitigate the hit.

Julius Peppers	OLB	36	GB	TBD	$10,500,000	UFA
[B]T.J. Lang[/B]	G	28	GB	TBD	$6,181,250	UFA
[B]Nick Perry[/B]	OLB	26	GB	TBD	$4,875,000	UFA
[B]Jared Cook[/B]	TE	29	GB	TBD	$2,750,000	UFA
Datone Jones	OLB	26	GB	TBD	$2,455,280	UFA
[B]David Bakhtiari[/B]	LT	24	GB	TBD	$1,784,850	UFA
[B]Micah Hyde[/B]	SS	25	GB	TBD	$1,715,527	UFA
[B]Eddie Lacy[/B]	RB	25	GB	TBD	$1,079,404	UFA
[B]J.C. Tretter[/B]	C	25	GB	TBD	$778,977	UFA
Don Barclay	RT	27	GB	TBD	$700,000	UFA

[CaptainD]

Packers G T.J. Lang on Josh Sitton: "He loved it here. He wanted to be here. He wanted to finish his career here." So much for the theories many of you are throwing around.

Meanwhile >Jermichael Finley " You can't just let a Pro Bowler walk out the door like that. PERIOD! @jsitton71 was the BEST O-Linemen the @packers had!"

Leroy Butler added in " The shortest path to Aaron is up the middle,confused why did the packers cut JOSH SITTON. Smh "

[Bossman641]

he would have given his all this year, being a contract year, so they should have kept him and put the best o-line possible out there for Rodgers. now you've got a backup starting and a #3 backing him up. maybe a wise $ decision but not a good football decision.

Agreed. Hard to imagine what Sitton could have said/done where the Packers decided they are better without him than with him. OL skill level and depth have taken a big hit, even accounting for whatever slippage Sitton has had. I normally back TT/MM but this is a headscratcher for me.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Sure it is. That money can be used to sign other players to extensions, or the money can be carried over to next year.

extensions - so they can take cap space from this year to pay for contracts for future years? That sounds unlikely.

money carried over to next year - increased cap space for this year can be carried over to increase next year's cap?

What you are saying is passing strange, but perhaps it is right in some complicated sense.

[Harlan Huckleby]

if he is playing on big contracts to a few of them, then the money from this year can be used to mitigate the hit.

Could you explain this? I get that they save some money this year. What are you saying is mitigated? What "money from this year"? I get it from a profitability standpoint, but not from a cap perspective.

[pbmax]

extensions - so they can take cap space from this year to pay for contracts for future years? That sounds unlikely.

money carried over to next year - increased cap space for this year can be carried over to increase next year's cap?

Doesn't change the calculus of helping sign others to extensions. That money still helps, it just lets you spend it over a longer window.

[Harlan Huckleby]

So money saved in 2016 (cap space, the dollars don't matter, they got plenty dollars) can pay for extensions - contracts for future years can be applied to the 2016 cap? Is this what you and that wretched postal worker are saying?

(Pretend you are talking to your mildly retarded step son. Talk slowly and use gestures.)

[pbmax]

So money saved in 2016 (cap space, the dollars don't matter, they got plenty dollars) can pay for extensions - contracts for future years can be applied to the 2016 cap? Is this what you and that wretched postal worker are saying?

Yes.

Cap space used to be a use it or lose it deal. There was a near end of season deadline for applying any contract extension money to the current year. It was like Week 12 or something. So if you signed Rodgers to an extension that paid him an immediate bonus (which, if you wanted to use up your cap dollars and save room going forward, you would want to do) that immediate bonus counted on the current year cap, even though the contract ran 3 more years or whatever.

So under that old system, any deal the Packers signed this year would be eligible to be paid for partly with 2016 cap room. But there was a hard deadline and agents knew it.

Now, under the new CBA, those 2016 left over cap dollars, if they exist at the end of the year, can be pushed forward to create more cap room in the following League year.

Meaning that for 2016, any contact signed during the season AND any contract agreed to next year, can be paid, in part, with the leftover cap. And Sitton's cap savings will add to that amount.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Now, under the new CBA, those 2016 left over cap dollars, if they exist at the end of the year, can be pushed forward to create more cap room in the following League year.

well, I'll be a monkey's uncle