The Redskins salary cap

[Drift Reality]

What do you guys think of the financial management of this team?

If we take the following seven players salaries in 2006:

Clinton Portis - 5.476
Lavarr Arrington - 12.414
L. Coles - 6.857
Jon Jansen - 5.238
Ramsey - 1.308
Samuels - 10.898
Taylor - (estimated) 5

We come up with a total cap number of 47 million dollars.

If we estimate the cap will increase 10 million between now and then, we're looking at a total cap of about 90 million dollars. Those top seven players will account for more than 50% of the cap.

Now, if we consider that the next six highest-paid players in 2006:

Wynn - 4.583
Thomas - 4.500
Washington - 5.167
Springs - 5.558
Griffin - 4.883
Brunell - 5.433

The total for these players about 30 million, then we are looking at about 77 million dollars tied up in our top thirteen players.

On a 53 man roster, we are looking at about 13 million dollars being available for 40 players. This works out to about 325,000 per player.

This is unacceptable (and maybe impossible).

Basically, we are looking at a few different scenarios that we can more or less bank on:

1. Brunell will be cut in three years.
2. If Samuels doesn't renegotiate his contract, he will be cut next July.
3. If Levarr doesn't renegotiate before 2006, he will be cut in July 2005.
4. Wynn will be cut in July of 2006 or maybe 2005 if he stinks next year.

What does this all mean? Dead cap room.

What pisses me off is not the top seven players we are paying, but it is the fact that we are paying 30 million in 2006 to players like Renaldo Wynn, Cornelius Griffin, and Shawn Springs. I'm also pissed off about all the dead cap room we're going to be eating when Brunell is cut in July of 2006.

You better enjoy the Skins this year and next. In three years, we're going to be going through what the 49ers went through the past couple of years.