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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 879483"><p>Go to the following link, click on the 2021 tab, and you'll see the current 2021 cap commitments for each team for contracts currently in force:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://overthecap.com/salary-cap-space/" target="_blank">https://overthecap.com/salary-cap-space/</a></p><p></p><p>The Packers $182 mil for the top 51 is 12th. highest in the league.</p><p></p><p>Do the Packers have any likely candidates they can cut after this season to free up cap space? Not really. Again, click on the 2021 tab in this link:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/green-bay-packers/" target="_blank">https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/green-bay-packers/</a></p><p></p><p>It would be best cut Linsley now for the $8.15 mil cap savings that can be carried over even at the risk of looking like as*holes to players and agents. Desperate times call for desperate measures if you want to call cutting Linsley "desperate".</p><p></p><p>I've already itemized the 2021 Packer free agency situation which is pretty daunting.</p><p></p><p>Additional cap space can be bought by extending Rodgers, Adams and/or Z. with salary converted to signing bonus. Rodgers would be a bad idea, pushing his contract and/or dead cap out further. Adams and Z. are young enough to extend and pick up cap some coin. That's about it. Expect to have a weaker roster next year compared to this.</p><p></p><p>How much worse is the Packer situation than the league average? Hard to tell without examining the 2021 free agent situation for each team but I think it is fair to say teams like the Colts, Patriots, Chargers and Jaguars with $126 mil or less in cap commitments for 2021 are in prime position to pick up free agents on the cheat in what will be a buyers market.</p><p></p><p>Such players might prefer a cheap one year deal over a cheap longer term one in the hopes more money will be on the table in 2022. Who's the guy who has among the lowest contract obligations for 2021, who turns over his roster like most GMs change their underwear, and who somehow manages to cobble together what he needs with rent-a-players? You guessed it.</p><p></p><p>The cheeseheadtv piece put the Packers 2021 cap situation in light of the free agents in the bottom 1/4 of the league. That's probably about right.</p><p></p><p>I've never detected any particular genius in Russ Ball's game. There are no geniuses in writing rookie contracts under the scale. With vets it's paying market value and you hope you get more than what you paid for which is more about Gutekunst than Ball. The rest is take the cap hit now or take it later with backloaded contracts which eventually hits a dead end. The 2019 free agent signings was certainly not an exercise in genius--the contracts were backloaded which is how we got to $182 mil in top 51 cap for 2021 in the first place.</p><p></p><p>If the cap remains below or at this years level through 2023 as revenue losses are recouped there isn't even a "later" on the visible horizon.</p><p></p><p>This is the year to get it done, now more than ever, with the window closing in 2021. The window was closing before any of this happened. Now you're staring down the barrel of about $35 - $40 mil less cap to work with than what would have been projected under the new CBA.</p><p></p><p>It would have been nice to land some combination of WR, OT, DL or CB in the first 3 rounds while waiting on the QB and RB and getting a FB down the board. Alas, it was not to be. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/sleep.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sleep:" title="Sleep :sleep:" data-shortname=":sleep:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 879483"] Go to the following link, click on the 2021 tab, and you'll see the current 2021 cap commitments for each team for contracts currently in force: [URL]https://overthecap.com/salary-cap-space/[/URL] The Packers $182 mil for the top 51 is 12th. highest in the league. Do the Packers have any likely candidates they can cut after this season to free up cap space? Not really. Again, click on the 2021 tab in this link: [URL]https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/green-bay-packers/[/URL] It would be best cut Linsley now for the $8.15 mil cap savings that can be carried over even at the risk of looking like as*holes to players and agents. Desperate times call for desperate measures if you want to call cutting Linsley "desperate". I've already itemized the 2021 Packer free agency situation which is pretty daunting. Additional cap space can be bought by extending Rodgers, Adams and/or Z. with salary converted to signing bonus. Rodgers would be a bad idea, pushing his contract and/or dead cap out further. Adams and Z. are young enough to extend and pick up cap some coin. That's about it. Expect to have a weaker roster next year compared to this. How much worse is the Packer situation than the league average? Hard to tell without examining the 2021 free agent situation for each team but I think it is fair to say teams like the Colts, Patriots, Chargers and Jaguars with $126 mil or less in cap commitments for 2021 are in prime position to pick up free agents on the cheat in what will be a buyers market. Such players might prefer a cheap one year deal over a cheap longer term one in the hopes more money will be on the table in 2022. Who's the guy who has among the lowest contract obligations for 2021, who turns over his roster like most GMs change their underwear, and who somehow manages to cobble together what he needs with rent-a-players? You guessed it. The cheeseheadtv piece put the Packers 2021 cap situation in light of the free agents in the bottom 1/4 of the league. That's probably about right. I've never detected any particular genius in Russ Ball's game. There are no geniuses in writing rookie contracts under the scale. With vets it's paying market value and you hope you get more than what you paid for which is more about Gutekunst than Ball. The rest is take the cap hit now or take it later with backloaded contracts which eventually hits a dead end. The 2019 free agent signings was certainly not an exercise in genius--the contracts were backloaded which is how we got to $182 mil in top 51 cap for 2021 in the first place. If the cap remains below or at this years level through 2023 as revenue losses are recouped there isn't even a "later" on the visible horizon. This is the year to get it done, now more than ever, with the window closing in 2021. The window was closing before any of this happened. Now you're staring down the barrel of about $35 - $40 mil less cap to work with than what would have been projected under the new CBA. It would have been nice to land some combination of WR, OT, DL or CB in the first 3 rounds while waiting on the QB and RB and getting a FB down the board. Alas, it was not to be. :sleep: [/QUOTE]
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