Dallas Sucks
ESPN.com's Dan Graziano says DT Jay Ratliff still being on the Cowboys' roster "doesn't make too much sense."
Dallas is back over the salary cap after franchising DE/OLB Anthony Spencer last week, and they need to clear at least $6.8 million by Tuesday at 4PM EST. However, cutting Ratliff won't do them much good. It would only save the Cowboys $1 million against the cap. A restructuring is more likely.
http://www.rotoworld.com/playernews/nfl/football
And yet you don't hear a peep about it.
If the Jets were 6.8 million over the cap we would be getting bashed on every sportscenter, NFL live, NFL network and whatever other sports media outlet you can think of. Sh!t, we are 8 million under and I still constantly hear how cap-strapped we are.
Why all the over-reaction and excessive "End of the world/negative" headlining about the Jets??
Obviously there are teams in much worse situations.
Last edited by ARodFLKeysJetsFan; 03-10-2013 at 11:28 AM.
Dallas Sucks
Is that counting the "dead money" that they are carrying from the year they hosted the Super Bowl and Jerry got fined for selling more tickets than he had seats?![]()
That's because Cowboy fans get mad when they bash them. Jet fans get mad when someone compliments them. I see it here everyday. All you have to do is say how bad the Jets are and you get instant credibility around here.
Yep, everything always seems to get overblown if the Jets name is attached to it.
The Eagles are another team that were in CAP hell....look at all the cuts they have made to get under the CAP and they have NEVER won a superbowl, they have been to the superbowl twice and lost both times and even they don't get the kind of negative scrutiny the Jets always seem to garner. By the way, the Eagles don't have a franchise QB either, anybody that thinks Michael Vick or Nick Foles are franchise QB's are total fools.
Last edited by ARodFLKeysJetsFan; 03-10-2013 at 01:36 PM.
The Jets really don't have many free agents to sign, as far as not having as many holes to fill as the Cowboys, that is definitely debatable and the same could be said about the Eagles. Plus the Cowboys have already used up their franchise tag, the Jets still have theirs at their disposal if they choose to use it.
Its just funny to me how these other teams are overlooked by the media and the Jets are constantly and blatantly raked over the coals. That's the point I was trying to make.
Last edited by ARodFLKeysJetsFan; 03-10-2013 at 02:07 PM.
If the Eagles cut Nnamdi, they will be around 24 million under the cap with 65 players signed. That is not a bad situation at all.
Plus the Jets have no one to use the franchise tag on, and if they did it would eat up a decent amount of their limited cap space.
The point was its a tool they have at their disposal that they have yet to use. They could use it on Keller, Moore or Landry if they chose to, although they probably won't.
The Jets currently have 58 players under contract, 11 free agents to deal with - either re-sign, or release, that were starters last season.
The good news is none of these free agents are core players with the exception of Keller & Moore. Landry was a one year experiment, so, I don't consider him a core player. The rest of the free agents are easily replacable through the draft and free agency.
Here's the list:
http://www.spotrac.com/free-agents/nfl/new-york-jets/
Last edited by ARodFLKeysJetsFan; 03-10-2013 at 02:30 PM.
Last edited by ARodFLKeysJetsFan; 03-10-2013 at 02:56 PM.
So what is your point exactly?? How the media portrays the Jets cap situation doesnt actually change it. I dont know why you guys worry so much about what the media says, it has zero effect on the Jets. The fact is, the Jets roster and salary cap is not good right now, but there is hope for 2014 as many of these anchors could be off the books and some real change can occur.
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