These are the cuts that I would make as a General Manager. Gostowski was solid last season but his cap hit over the next two seasons is to large and it wouldn't be to much of a drop off to save some money and draft a kicker late in the draft. With Mankins' contract we can push his base salary over the next two years of his contract and will cause the contract to increase by 1.5 each season for the next two seasons. It will save 6 million for this season and help our situation this offseason a lot. On the other hand, for Brady I kind of went out on a limb and predicted that maybe we could give him a 3 year extension to his current contract and turn his base salary into a roster bonus and spread it out over those three years and it would save somewhere around 4-9 million in cap for this season.
After all of these moves the pats could potentially free up almost 20 million more dollars of cap space for this season and it would put them in pretty good shape to potentially sign Ed Reed, resign Welker and Vollmer, and maybe make a few more moves.
My next article will consist of projected offseason resignings
| Players Name | Position | Cap Hit | Dead Money | Cut Players Names | Position | Cap Hit | Restructured Contracts | Postion | New Cap Hit | |
| Vince Wilfork | DT | 10,608,120 | 7,200,000 | Stephen Gostowski | K | 1,600,000 | Logan Mankins | OL | 6,325,000 | |
| Jerod Mayo | LB | 5,600,000 | 13,200,000 | Daniel Fells | TE | 666,667 | Tom Brady | QB | 14,800,000 | |
| Brandon Lloyd | WR | 4,500,000 | 5,000,000 | Spencer Larsen | LB | 125,000 | ||||
| Aaron Hernandez | TE | 4,073,000 | 10,050,000 | Kamar Aiken | WR | 0 | ||||
| Dan Connolly | OL | 3,333,333 | 1,666,667 | Malcolm Williams | CB | 0 | ||||
| Rob Gronkowski | TE | 2,700,000 | 11,470,000 | Marcuse Benard | LB | 0 | ||||
| Nate Solder | OL | 2,329,225 | 4,276,848 | Andre Holmes | WR | 0 | ||||
| Matthew Slater | WR | 2,266,666 | 1,333,334 | Mike Kafka | QB | 0 | ||||
| Steve Gregory | S | 2,183,333 | 1,666,667 | Jeff Tarpinian | LB | 0 | ||||
| Chandler Jones | DE | 1,857,613 | 5,935,124 | James Develin | RB | 0 | ||||
| Devin McCourty | S | 1,853,120 | 2,290,000 | Jeremy Ebert | WR | 0 | ||||
| Donta Hightower | LB | 1,755,455 | 4,876,365 | Tracy Robertson | DE | 0 | ||||
| Rob Ninkovich | DE | 2,166,668 | 666,668 | |||||||
| Ras-I Dowling | CB | 1,446,572 | 1,530,141 | |||||||
| Kyle Love | DT | 1,100,000 | 250,000 | |||||||
| Ryan Wendell | OL | 1,015,000 | 150,000 | |||||||
| Tavon Wilson | S | 958,613 | 1,712,395 | |||||||
| Shane Vereen | RB | 943,950 | 508,600 | |||||||
| Jermaine Cunningham | DE | 960,120 | 330,000 | |||||||
| Brandon Spikes | LB | 870,120 | 240,000 | |||||||
| Stevan Ridley | RB | 805,500 | 324,000 | |||||||
| Ryan Mallett | QB | 803,953 | 321,938 | |||||||
| Marcus Cannon | OL | 637,687 | 100,250 | |||||||
| Nick McDonald | OL | 630,000 | 0 | |||||||
| Zoltan Mesko | P | 1,369,814 | 46,814 | |||||||
| Jake Bequette | DE | 619,950 | 404,850 | |||||||
| Brandon Deaderick | DE | 640,195 | 10,075 | |||||||
| Danny Aiken | LS | 555,000 | 0 | |||||||
| Nate Ebner | S | 504,150 | 72,450 | |||||||
| Alfonzo Dennard | CB | 494,462 | 43,386 | |||||||
| Brandon Bolden | RB | 485,000 | 10,000 | |||||||
| Markus Zusevics | OL | 484,333 | 8,667 | |||||||
| Justin Francis | DE | 482,333 | 4,667 | |||||||
| Mike Rivera | LB | 480,000 | 0 | |||||||
| Jeff Demps | RB | 408,666 | 7,334 | |||||||
| Kyle Hix | OL | 408,000 | 3,000 | |||||||
| Brad Herman | TE | 405,833 | 1,667 | |||||||
| Armon Armstead | DT | 405,000 | 0 | |||||||
| Dead Money | 6,907,863 | |||||||||
| Cap Surplus | -5,100,000 | |||||||||
| Total Team Salaries | 86,073,647 | |||||||||
| Total Cap Space | 34,926,353 | |||||||||
There are 3 Comments. Load Now.
Shortcuts to mastering the comment thread. Use wisely.
C - Next Comment
X - Mark as Read
R - Reply
Z - Mark Read & Next
Shift + C - Previous
Shift + A - Mark All Read
Comment Settings
Live comment alert: Hide it!
Comments for this post are closed.