[MIJB#19]

General Manager Notes: The 2103 Off-season continues
We got a new long snapper, yay.

A busy couple of days has finally resulted in some changes to the roster. QB Winfred England has officially been acquired through trade, as has been C Tevin Bratsch. CB/ST Eric McCool signed a new two-year deal with us, while LT Carson McCormick signed a 4-year deal, which for him means he banked his semi-decent rookie season. We also signed one of the best in business in LS Bennett Brock. The bummers of the day were TE Riley Bridges, he took a slightly cheaper offer from the Tucker Tigers over returning to Maassluis after a season in Williamsburg. And Calvin Hancock's agent has some explaining to do after he turned down our very modest contract offer, which was extremely close to their request.

This means that we're now at 49 players signed, with 5 incoming rookies, including the not yet used 7th round pick, with a cap figure of $26.59M under the $558.8M cap. The rookies still need to be factored in, which means they will increase the cap figure used by $18.24M. That means we're down to $8.35M in cap space left, keeping in mind that a new player will cost us the offered figure minus $2.11M, which is the cap figure of our now three lowest cap numbers. But, I'm going to unlock some cap space by doing the thing that usually gets us in cap trouble: renegotiate with one of the expensive players. It will be WR Vinny Buysse's turn, as it will give us an additional $21M to work with (and will cost us an additional $10M in each of the next two seasons).