Cutting Archuleta & The Salary Cap

because of lavar giving money back, the new cba contains rules to prevent that from happening in the future (oh yeah, and they suspended lavar's agent for an entire year for doing that too). so that's a no-go.

If he gets kidnapped or killed, i believe we're still on the books for the guaranteed money, so the uzbeks really can't help us there :(.

Damn. He can always restructure can't he? He might be a team oriented guy.

I'm still hoping that our "genius" coaching staff figures out a way to utilize the skills of this player which Lovie Smith wanted really bad for the Bears. He has something to offer, we just have to get it out of him.

Yeah. I talked with a Rams fan the other day who doesn't follow the skins. He was saying that we took one of thier best defensive players and thought he would be doing great for us.

We are not using him right.

we are stuck with that bum. he needs to play linebacker. doesnt have the speed for coverage. everytime he comes in the game he is going to be thrown at unless he blitzs. thanks for the great contract structure...dont know who to think first the danny or gibbs?

well actually there is maybe something we can do...we did eat all of LC's money when we traded him. maybe shop a trade and take the loss to unload him. Troy vincent who has been here what a month has taken AA's job? how much clearer does it have to be???

if we ever did manage to bring in or develop a shut-down corner he'd probably be of greater value. maybe once ST gets a little better in coverage...

dont get me wrong ST is great but he still has the occasional lapse.

anyways if one or both of those things happen maybe he can get back out there.

oh, he could also work on his coverage skills. hell if i were the highest paid safety benched in place of some old vet, i would def start working double time to get with the program.

I think he faced a big adjustment coming into this defensive system, bigger than anyone had anticipated. With the loss of Prioleau he was forced into playing alot more coverage than Williams had planned, and before you know it AA's confidence was shot.

Williams needs to find a way to build this guy back up since it looks like we're stuck with him for the short term.

I do think cutting AA is a possibility (albeit an expensive one).

A post-June 1 cut would count $1.833M in 2007 and $7.167M in 2008. While that is a big deadcap hit to take in 2008 it wouldn't be the first time.

I've always theorized that the Skins allocate a certain percentage of their cap to deadcap each year. This year we had Lavar's $7.5M+ deadcap hit and a total of over $16M in deadcap. Last year we had Coles' $9M deadcap hit and nearly $20M in total deadcap.

Right now we have less than $1M in deadcap in 2007 and that just doesn't sound right for a Skins team. Even if we cut Arch and took his full $9M deadcap hit in 2007, we'd still be "ahead" of the game in Skins terms. Plus the salary cap keeps rising every year making the deadcap portion smaller in percentage terms.

Personally I hope they find some use for this guy. I wouldn't mind giving him a shot at LB (as others have suggested) since we are weak there and he can't cover anyways. But if he really can't fit here I think we should cut him next year, take the full $9M deadcap in 2007, and start rebuilding for 2008.

The uzbeks are liars and cheats, they not keep him unless you send them 20 gallons fermented horse urine and 40 pounds of pubis.

loll

Yeah. I talked with a Rams fan the other day who doesn't follow the skins. He was saying that we took one of thier best defensive players and thought he would be doing great for us.

We are not using him right.

That's bullcrap! I live in St. Louis. I can tell you for a fact, St. Louisans were laughing when the Skins paid Arch the bank. The concensus was that he couldn't cover and since his neck injury, he wasn't tackling aggressively anymore. I've repeatedly posted how this was a bad move. I only wish I had Gibbs and Snyder's phone number because when I first heard the rumor the Skins were going to sign Archuletta, I was screaming NNOOOOOOOOOOO! I wish I was wrong, but Arch is even more washed up than I thought.

They shoud'nt cut A.A. if u want my opinion they should cut GW send
him back to NASCAR