De'Vondre Campbell

[Sparkey]

Next year - with a massive increase in the cap, of course - they will find a way to keep everybody worth keeping. It can be done. It will be done.

As for Devondre Campbell, he has done a great job in the niche Barry has carved out for him, and he will obviously get a nice raise in pay. However, he is not some sideline to sideline superman type ILB who will get huge cap-breaking money. I would think $5-7 million a season is about right with a good bonus and backloaded team-friendly contract. His cap hit would be not much more than now the first year. (for example, $6 million bonus, $1 million the first year, $4.5, 6, and 7.5 million in years 2-4 - that's $25 million for 4 years).

The league and the NFL Players Association have agreed to a salary cap ceiling of $208.2 million for 2022

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cap/2022/

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/green-bay-packers/cap/2022/

Where is this massive cap increase you talk about? The Packers are in it deep next year...

[Joemailman]

The league and the NFL Players Association have agreed to a salary cap ceiling of $208.2 million for 2022

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cap/2022/

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/green-bay-packers/cap/2022/

Where is this massive cap increase you talk about? The Packers are in it deep next year...

Packers have said all along that 2022 will be another year of scrambling to get under the cap. They pushed a lot of money into 2022 to get under the cap in 2021. They are 30M over now for 2022 and that doesn't include Adams. Of course, it becomes much simpler if they trade Rodgers which would save 27M on the cap.

[texaspackerbacker]

That $208.2 million is up $26 million from this year. I call that massive. Besides, an agreement with the Players Association precludes it from being lower. If the owners decided they wanted it higher, I'm sure the NFLPA wouldn't object. I doubt the Packers are any worse off than most other teams, and if too many are hurt by the cap, the league will do what needs to be done.

I say again, anybody we really want to keep we can and will keep. As I demonstrated with my Campbell example, it ain't that hard to manipulate the cap. Any shitheads talking about getting rid of Aaron Rodgers are too damn stupid to be Packer fans (no offense Joe hahahaha).

[HarveyWallbangers]

It was $198 two years ago, so it’s not a massive increase over that. It’s just a course correction for last years drop of $16m. It would actually be lower, but both sides expect an increase in TV revenue in the coming years. Also, that is the max it can be (ceiling). It could be lower. The Saints and Packers are in the worst shape. Little of what you said is true.

[texaspackerbacker]

Mark my words if you like - and use them against me if I'm wrong, which I'm not. The cap will not be a serious drag on the team next season. There are things that can be done, starting with extending Rodgers for a lot more years. Anybody significant that we lose - Z. Smith possibly, Tonyan possibly, wouldn't hurt enough to harm the team.

You're saying, Harvey, that the cap is an upper limit, not a lower limit? I'm not so sure that is true. The players and owners can always make a change upward if they both agree - with logically would happen if too many teams are hurt. And why would the players ever agree to lower what they negotiated? As for the owners, if they see it as too high, they could just stay farther under it - but don't hold your breath waiting for that, especially the Packers.

[ThunderDan]

We are $30,000,000 over the cap right now if we do nothing.

Cutting Tonyan saves nothing. Cutting Z saves $16,000,000. We only have 37 active players under contract next year and we are $30 million over. We only have 2 WR on the roster and we are paying Cobb $9.6 million next year. We are in trouble next year.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/green-bay-packers/cap/2022/

Used spotrac for the data.

[Joemailman]

We are $30,000,000 over the cap right now if we do nothing.

Cutting Tonyan saves nothing. Cutting Z saves $16,000,000. We only have 37 active players under contract next year and we are $30 million over. We only have 2 WR on the roster and we are paying Cobb $9.6 million next year. We are in trouble next year.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/green-bay-packers/cap/2022/

Used spotrac for the data.

There will be a lot of work to do. Z has a cap hit of 28M next year. He will either be released, or have his contract extended. Same with Preston. I doubt they will both be back. Cobb also will either have his contract changed to lower cap hit, or released. Alexander has a cap hit of 13.2M next year. He will get an extension which will lower his cap hit in 2022. Rodgers has a cap hit of 46M next year. He will either be traded, which means a cap savings of 27M, or have his contract extended to lower the cap hit in 2022. There is a lot they can do

Trading Rodgers, and cutting Z and Cobb would mean a cap savings of 50M. That would be the simplest way, but not the only way.

[George Cumby]

The emergence of Gary makes Z expendable.

[Freak Out]

Last Dance

[King Friday]

Rodgers will not stay without Adams. Part of Adams' eventual cap number can be offset through a restructure with Rodgers. If you feel the Packers can keep both, we are looking at having to cut out about $45M+ in cap space once you sign rookies, do some minor tweaks, and fill open roster spots.

Z and Cobb are considerable chunks of that. They gone.
You still have considerable money to come up with even after that.

It can be done, but it absolutely will be a serious drag if the Packers keep Rodgers and Adams. If Green Bay doesn't keep those guys, then there won't be a cap issue.

[texaspackerbacker]

Weird how the same panicky fools who consistently predict bad records and other bad results are so negative and panicky here hahahaha.

[King Friday]

Negative? Nah, just factual. Your pie in the sky thought that the cap will just go up by $50M and let us sign everyone is less so.

[texaspackerbacker]

Shithead, you don't deserve to call yourself a Packer fan.

[pittstang5]

What the hell is going on? Everytime I look, the score is worse.

Da fuck?