Archuleta traded to Bears for 6th round pick

Wow, this thread got 90 posts in 2 hours. I haven't been a member here that long, but that's pretty impressive. Were we craving some Redskins activity or what?? Hahaha

Regarding Archuleta's contract, did you guys notice that his deal with Chicago will include $5 million in guarantees? So says the ESPN article.

$5 million is exactly what we owed him tomorrow when the second half of his guaranteed money was due to him.

I await the numbers from La Canfora, but I'd venture to guess that somehow the Skins managed to transfer that $5 million payment over to the Bears. If true, the 'Skins would be taking a $4 million dead cap hit this year on Archuleta, meaning making the trade only ate up $1.7 million of incremental cap space, meaning we'd be sitting here with about $8 million in 2007 cap space.

Maybe CC knows if such a transfer of guaranteed payments can be done under the new collective bargaining agreement?

It bears watching. But if I had to bet, I'd guess that we are not eating the full $9 million in dead cap money. I think we probably got out of some of that somehow.

Curious that all rumblings regarding Dre Bly have been silent to this point... if we've resolved Archuleta without taking a huge cap hit from him then the door is open for Mr. Bly.

ALL SPECULATION ON MY PART. But my speculation is probably more accurate than anything on PFT!

If we transfered that $5M, that would be amazing. I would be thrilled.

the terror...

is over...

Whoever thinks that we should've gotten more for him is crazy. Just to get rid of that contract by itself was a great move.

Thank God.

Ya, getting rid of that monsterous contract was HUGE. I am very interested in the cap ramifications of this deal.

Geez i hope we didnt have to give a the bears a signing bonus to take him. LOL thanks god he gone.

I remember reading somewhere that if we cut Archuleta, the cap penalty will drop by however much his new signing bonus is. It says it in his contract. It's either that or the fact that if we don't take the option bonus, his next three years of base salary become guaranteed. But then the base salary goes to the bears in the trade so we don't have to pay it. Is that right?

Holy hell, we actually got more than a bag of chips and a soda in return for this guy

We got robbed!!!!! I am so pissed. We could have got a 3rd rounder!! This blows!!! WHy!!!!!why!!!!WHYYYYYY!!!!!!!! Why.

You don't typically get a third rounder for a bench player with a bad back.

This is as good as it gets for us.