Potential Offseason Cuts and Cap Savings

Jesus man, read the posts above.

Portis costs us more money to cut in '07 than he does to keep. Please gain a basic knowledge of the salary cap before you start coming around talking about the chances certain players may be gone.

What are you the frickin cap specialist for the Redskins? I said they would ask him to renegotiate! If he is not willing then he could be let go. Meaning he could be traded or cut. I'm sure a team like the Jets would be interested.

are you the douchebag specialist for this site?

are you the douchebag specialist for this site?

we have a long list of those lately, I think you're on it too

aw. :(

are you the douchebag specialist for this site?

You are such a loser. Get lost.

you dont even KNOW me!!!! *sniffle*

you dont even KNOW me!!!! *sniffle*

Your right. And I don't want to know you. You don't need to be name calling on this web-site.

I'm sorry I was in meetings all day, I could have squashed this nonsensical Portis discussion a lot sooner.

Portis is scheduled to hit our cap for $7.0 million in 2007. If we cut him or trade him, he'll hit $8.1 million. There's no way we release a still very productive Portis, age 26, AND take an incremental cap hit for doing so. The only way we'd get rid of him is if we actually saved (A LOT of) money, which we wouldn't.

Portis will not object to renegotiation. The 'Skins have structured their contracts in such a way to simply convert roster bonuses and base salaries into new signing bonuses. Portis would still get the cash his contract says he's supposed to get in '07; it would just be called a signing bonus instead of salary. Players don't care what you call it, they just want the money. He'll renegotiate, the cap number will come down from the $7.0 million, and we'll be happily ever after.

He's going nowhere, take it to the bank. CC, can I get an amen?

Amen bro, amen.

Portis has a huge release fee, plus we can restructure up to $4.5M of his 2007 cap hit. This would save us around $3.5M making trading him even less attractive.

you might not like how scheed phrased his response, but it's true that letting portis go just isn't going to happen, and even if he's traded, we'd still take a huge hit for it. If we keep him, we can reduce the cap hit by backloading the contract even more (sucks for down the road) which could make him count only ~4mill this year. plus portis is good, young, and not cancerous to the team in any way.

you might not like the size of his contract (and you're right that RB is one of the easiest positions to go cheap at), but the structure pretty much ensures he'll be here for quite a while (unless we toss a year or two down the drain to clearcut all our cap issues, but i don't see that happening).

I never cease to be amazed by the things people write on this site. Right, we are going to cut Portis to save money. He's one of the elite backs in the league and main leaders of our team.