Is there a contingency plan for Brunnell and the money/cap room at the end?

or warner, or testes even :(

i think warner is a 1-2mill deal for one year... testes is 1mill, both of which are slightly less than over 6mill a year for some horrid QB'ing... I really though garcia would be the best answer, but i don't really think gibbs hired brunell on anything besides personality (grrr)...

49ers are in cap hell cause they wrote awful contracts (50mill a year for their roster vs the normal 80... 30mill in dead room :()

danny's system of beating the cap only works as long as the NFL at a rate faster than the deals he makes (having 100mill a year team works as long as you can defer enough of it until the salary cap hits 105mill or whatever, thats the simple version... there's a lot of tricks too, but thats another topic)

anyways, his money is way way WAY over what he was ever worth, and his money would be enough to get us a 1st string DE instead...

I think most teams end up carrying about 6-8 million dollars in dead cap room per year.

That being said, I'm going to be so sad if his dumb ass is the reason we can't re-sign Smoot. What do you guys think?

Smoot's not going anywhere. Smoot will become a franchise player. He and Arrington are the spirit of this team and several players will be let go before Smoot.

Smoot's not going anywhere. Smoot will become a franchise player. He and Arrington are the spirit of this team and several players will be let go before Smoot.

Yeah don't worry guys. I'm not going anywhere. Matty's got me locked up through 2006, that's when the accelerator clause in my contract kicks in. He'll have to make some tough decisions then. :D

I don't think the real Smoot is going anywhere either

lol

I think Samuels said he wouldn't restructure last year because he felt he had an off year . He wanted to enter the contract year with great performance behind him giving him serious leverage this year. However if that doesn't happen I think he will restucture this year to help the team if need be.

The big question is how is the Arrington case going to hurt us. Due for arbitration soon isn't it?

arrington's agent didn't do his job, and i doubt the league is going to see it any differently... arrington seems to not even care if he loses though, which is nice... and smoot ditched the postons, which is even nicer with a new contract coming up.

Here's the dead money situation if Brunell is cut/traded prior to:

2005 - $7.167M
2006 - $5.733M
2007 - $4.300M
2008 - $2.867M
2009 - $1.433M
2010 - $0

I be really surprised if Brunell wasn't here in 2005.

One possibility would be to cut him after June 1, 2006 which would leave $1.433M of dead money for 2006, and $4.3M of dead money for 2007.

I agree with Matty that this isn't a terrible cap deal - but then again the way he's playing...

Now I have even more reason to dislike the trade for Brunell!

I'd eat the $5 million dead cap money if Brunell brought us to a championship (or even to the brink of one), but does anyone think this is the guy who's going to lead us into a SB? He's leading us somewhere, just not to the SB - to cap hell.

EVERYONE outside of D.C. believes that eventually you have to pay the pied piper if you spend without concern for the salary cap. I tend to agree. Doesn't anyone know that our constant restructuring of deals has left us with the possibility of losing Samuels this offseason? Yes, Samuels. The guy is carrying a monster cap figure and has repeatedly refused to restructure his deal after doing it to his rookie deal twice.

The bottom line is that $5 million in dead space for one player is HUGE. We could go out and get an ALL-PRO Defensive Tackle or End for that amount. If anyone thinks that's insignificant, they'd better think twice.

You know what's so frustrating about the offensive line is there are veterans who are not playing up to the potential. I mean Randy Thomas, Chris Samuels and new comer Derrick Dockery are big and strong enough to move a boulder. So why aren't they winning the war at the line of scrimmage? Eight men in the box could be one reason,but not on every down.

No one is really playing well on that offense. the only question is how to divide up the blame. brunel as is always the case with the QB has earned a big chunk of it. It all starts with the QB. He is the one handling the ball on every play. But also the line has not blocked well, the WR's drop every other pass, Portis is a fumbling 3 yard per carry cluster fu*k. Name an offensive player and he's screwed up something.