[Dreamers]

Originally Posted by Batmans A Scientist

Jason's NYJetsCap page (linked so everyone can see it, if necessary). Smith is scheduled to make $12M next year, if the Jets cut him, it will be $0.

The way I see it, the Jets have the following situation, not $20M over, but :

CURRENT CAP COST OF PLAYERS 2013: $142M
2013 CAP INCLUDING Jets carryover $ ~$130M (Rough Estimate)

Assumed Cuts:

Smith, Jason (Savings: $12M) - (Dead Cap Cost: 0)
Pace, Calvin (Savings: $8.56M) - (Dead Cap Cost: $3M)
Scott, Bart (Savings: $7.15M) - (Dead Cap Cost: $1.5M)
Pouha, Sione (Savings: $3.8M) - (Dead Cap Cost: $2.3M)
Smith, Eric (Savings: $3M) - (Dead Cap Cost: 0)
Tebow, Tim (Savings: $1.5M) - (Dead Cap Cost: $1.05M)

2013 Cost with Cuts:

$105M

Total Players on roster 35. The Jets needs to spend $25 Million (roughly) for 18 players, this includes 9 starters (who may be resigned), a lot of them would be replaced by young guys on the team (Slauson, Thomas, DeVito)

Shonn Greene
Dustin Keller
Brandon Moore
Laron Landry
Mike DeVito
Yeremiah Bell
Matt Slauson
Nick Folk
Chaz Schilens
Austin Howard
Bryan Thomas

This is the bottom line. The Jets banked on having a serious increase of salary cap money in 2012/2013 and beyond. When that didn't happen, they were put in salary cap hell. That reason alone is why the GM needs to go. The Jets were woefully unprepared for a scenario where the salary cap did not go up.

The thing is though we can resign or get equivalent replacement for all those FA for under 11 mil on the cap next year. Your getting 6-9 players in the draft. That is 16-20 players right there with money to burn. We have the cash to improve this off season. That just makes me happy. I still say ext Harris is also a given. Have him move 5 mil give him 2 years at 7 mil and have most of his bonus come off over the next 2. It is win win IMO because he will likely be here anther 2 years anyway. We also have a love of room in 2014. I know the page says 96 mil but really less then half of that is committed. It is really more like 50 mill most of with is our draft picks over the last 3 years, Brick, Mangold, and some dead cash. We are in much better shape then we where last year. The only thing that really kills us was Marks new deal. Which from day one I hated. They gave away any real options they had just so they could keep crappy players like Devito, Smith, and Hunter.