Raiders Salary cap?

[OTF]

Can someone tell me how much room we have on the salary cap for rest of 2007 and how much space we have for 2008?

Somebody here has to know these numbers since so many want to question the decision not to cut Jordan. Jordan just restructed his contract this off season and took a pay cut but it probably included a Bonus of some sort. In addition Rhodes just signed a contract as well and received a bonus.

[Blackened]

Don't know the the overall cap situation for next year or even this year, but I know that Jordan's base for 2007 is $1M, with a $3M roster bonus, so his total cap value for this

year is right around $4M. His 2008 and 2009 base salaries are respectively $4.7M and $5M. So if he were cut from here on out, there would be no dead money in future years.

Rhodes received a two year contract and a $1M SB. 2007 base is $1.5M (- $352,941 due to four-game suspension), and 2008 base is $5M.

If Rhodes were cut from here on out, the only dead money that would be on the books in 2008 is $500,000 (half of the signing Bonus).

[Raiders Own You]

2007 CAP ROOM

Jacksonville $17.249 million
Tampa Bay $16.717 million
Indianapolis $14.041 million
Kansas City $13.096 million
Dallas $12.719 million
Green Bay $12.112 million
Buffalo $11.873 million
Seattle $10.787 million
Tennessee $9.501 million
New Orleans $9.330 million
Oakland $9.226 million
Carolina $9.087 million
N.Y. Jets $8.525 million
Philadelphia $8.374 million
Miami $8.011 million
Cleveland $7.108 million
San Francisco $6.070 million
New England $5.796 million
Atlanta $5.775 million
St. Louis $5.497 million
Denver $5.206 million
San Diego $4.305 million
Baltimore $3.929 million
Arizona $2.478 million
Minnesota $2.140 million
Pittsburgh $2.074 million
Detroit $2.054 million
Cincinnati $1.913 million
Houston $1.828 million
Washington $1.427 million
N.Y. Giants $1.199 million
Chicago $902,547



2008 CAP COMMITMENT (with number of players under contract in parentheses)

Tennessee (34) $71.842 million
San Diego (44) $79.729 million
Buffalo (44) $81.177 million
Cincinnati (44) $81.268 million
Jacksonville (42) $82.263 million
San Francisco (46) $83.472 million
New Orleans (37) $84.076 million
Arizona (36) $86.531 million
Dallas (40) $88.593 million
Miami (40) $88.622 million
N.Y. Giants (46) $89.156 million
Oakland (40) $90.133 million
Cleveland (41) $90.306 million
Houston (38) $90.951 million
Detroit (40) $91.488 million
Tampa Bay (47) $92.869 million
Kansas City (43) $94.132 million
Green Bay (47) $94.506 million
Chicago (49) $94.857 million
Pittsburgh (39) $95.017 million
Denver (41) $95.279 million
Minnesota (45) $95.794 million
Philadelphia (48) $96.051 million
N.Y. Jets (43) $98.231 million
Seattle (41) $102.206 million
St. Louis (38) $103.059 million
Indianapolis (42) $104.561 million
New England (42) $105.131 million
Atlanta (47) $108.861 million
Carolina (34) $109.899 million
Baltimore (42) $110.014 million
Washington (45) $136.270 million


Keep in mind that some teams' 2008 cap commitment includes some contracts that will void after this season. And every team has overpaid players they can cut to lower their cap commitment.

[BlackHeart]

Originally Posted by Raiders Own You

2007 CAP ROOM

Jacksonville $17.249 million
Tampa Bay $16.717 million
Indianapolis $14.041 million
Kansas City $13.096 million
Dallas $12.719 million
Green Bay $12.112 million
Buffalo $11.873 million
Seattle $10.787 million
Tennessee $9.501 million
New Orleans $9.330 million
Oakland $9.226 million
Carolina $9.087 million
N.Y. Jets $8.525 million
Philadelphia $8.374 million
Miami $8.011 million
Cleveland $7.108 million
San Francisco $6.070 million
New England $5.796 million
Atlanta $5.775 million
St. Louis $5.497 million
Denver $5.206 million
San Diego $4.305 million
Baltimore $3.929 million
Arizona $2.478 million
Minnesota $2.140 million
Pittsburgh $2.074 million
Detroit $2.054 million
Cincinnati $1.913 million
Houston $1.828 million
Washington $1.427 million
N.Y. Giants $1.199 million
Chicago $902,547



2008 CAP COMMITMENT (with number of players under contract in parentheses)

Tennessee (34) $71.842 million
San Diego (44) $79.729 million
Buffalo (44) $81.177 million
Cincinnati (44) $81.268 million
Jacksonville (42) $82.263 million
San Francisco (46) $83.472 million
New Orleans (37) $84.076 million
Arizona (36) $86.531 million
Dallas (40) $88.593 million
Miami (40) $88.622 million
N.Y. Giants (46) $89.156 million
Oakland (40) $90.133 million
Cleveland (41) $90.306 million
Houston (38) $90.951 million
Detroit (40) $91.488 million
Tampa Bay (47) $92.869 million
Kansas City (43) $94.132 million
Green Bay (47) $94.506 million
Chicago (49) $94.857 million
Pittsburgh (39) $95.017 million
Denver (41) $95.279 million
Minnesota (45) $95.794 million
Philadelphia (48) $96.051 million
N.Y. Jets (43) $98.231 million
Seattle (41) $102.206 million
St. Louis (38) $103.059 million
Indianapolis (42) $104.561 million
New England (42) $105.131 million
Atlanta (47) $108.861 million
Carolina (34) $109.899 million
Baltimore (42) $110.014 million
Washington (45) $136.270 million


Keep in mind that some teams' 2008 cap commitment includes some contracts that will void after this season. And every team has overpaid players they can cut to lower their cap commitment.

I'm sure our number will get much high then that.

[OTF]

Originally Posted by BlackHeart

I'm sure our number will get much high then that.

If those numbers are correct then that is another sign that we have improved! Every year going into March we are some $30 mil over the cap and have to redo a bunch of contracts to get under. Keep in mind that the salaries for Sapp, Jordan, Warren, Rhodes, Gallery, Sims, Thomas all count for $22,962,500 not including bonuses.

Most if not all of that can come off the books with a little work and getting rid of some of those players. That means we will be nearly $40 million under the projected cap of $116 Million. So we can resign Aso, Morrison & maybe Burgess to longer deals, pay for our 1st Rd pick and sign a couple free agents.

[RichGannon]

Wow Thomas Howard hold out sometime soon?

[BlackHeart]

Originally Posted by OTF

If those numbers are correct then that is another sign that we have improved! Every year going into March we are some $30 mil over the cap and have to redo a bunch of contracts to get under. Keep in mind that the salaries for Sapp, Jordan, Warren, Rhodes, Gallery, Sims, Thomas all count for $22,962,500 not including bonuses.

Most if not all of that can come off the books with a little work and getting rid of some of those players. That means we will be nearly $40 million under the projected cap of $116 Million. So we can resign Aso, Morrison & maybe Burgess to longer deals, pay for our 1st Rd pick and sign a couple free agents.

I hope you are right about that 40 million under the cap cause we sure do need it.

[OTF]

Originally Posted by BlackHeart

I hope you are right about that 40 million under the cap cause we sure do need it.

Well those salary numbers are accurate for the players salary as I got it from NFL players association website. The estimate for the cap is $116 mil so the biggest question is whether Oakland is going to have a $90.133 million cap going into the offseason.

I too pray that those numbers are accurate...

[R41D3R5]

There you go, now we have tons of space. Sign all the good FA's.

[or24]

we should just give eveyone a big contract and if they suck just stick them in the lamont/rodes pile lol

[RaiderBlitz]

There wasn't going to be a lot of personnel changes coming in. The first year a new coach will evaluate who is a fit and who isn't. This off season there will be as many as 12 starters cut on both sides of the line.
It looks like for once we are back in good position to get players in FA. 40 Mil is a nice number to work with to get some quality talent. This wont be the same team next year. It will be interesting if any current starting O line players survives the blood letting thats coming.

[Raiderz_00]

Do we have a lot of cap space comeing up? yep, and the players will go where the money is.

That also is part of the problem, because we are soooo bad we will have to severly overpay any player to get them to come here. Therefore, we really don't have that much cap space. Make sense?

[BlackHeart]

Originally Posted by Raiderz_00

Do we have a lot of cap space comeing up? yep, and the players will go where the money is.

That also is part of the problem, because we are soooo bad we will have to severly overpay any player to get them to come here. Therefore, we really don't have that much cap space. Make sense?

We just have to be smart with it but to be real saying smart when I'm talking about the Raiders isn't an easy thing to do right now but we just have to do things right period.