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Old 12-21-2018, 02:46 PM   #49
MIJB#19
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2079 GM Notes, start of the off-season
Well, things haven't gone exactly as hoped, some kid named Morris decided to quit playing football. The man of $100M for 19 games. Let's take a look at my notes from mid-season last season.
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2078 GM Notes, week 8
It gives Morris cap figures of $43.75M this season and $73.75M in each of the next three seasons. The salary cap is $433.8M. It's huge. But I think we'll manage. I fully expect to be able to get him to sign for much less next season, worst case having to go the Cap Out route, to trim his figure to $39M next season (-$34M to what it is scheduled to be). Heck, if we win a title, it'll all be worth it. With Erickson and McAlister as the backup plans, we're not quite a team that should immediately drop from first to worst.
We've got three options now:
* Sammy Erickson
* Ellis McAlister
* get yet another new quarterback
The ne result of the retirement sadly costs us more money that anticipated. We're currently at $45.28M lost cap space, of which only $4.24M is left over from last season. There's also Anaya's retirement costing us 3.54M, which means Morris is counting for $37.5M towards the cap. The fourth season of signing bonus apparently doesn't count towards the cap.
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2078 GM Notes, week 8
All in all, we're projecting to be $64M over the cap going into the 2079 off-season, with 47 players signed. But a lot of that is on the 9 players with a base salary of 10M+, they combined for $188M of cap costs, just on those base salaries. As mentioned already, we can save $34M on Morris alone, we should be able to save $18M on linebacker Antonio Battle, $10M on defensive tackle Glen Stiegler, $9M on Carlos Webb, $6M on wide receiver J.R. Mills, $8M on wide receiver Brody Stevens and $6M on cornerback Alonzo Hitchcock, that's roughly $100M, a lot more than we will need.
We're projected $43.03M over the cap, but that included draft picks that cost us $25.12M. It'll be less once you factor in that we have 11 picks and 45 players signed, which means only the 6 most expensive picks will actually cost us cap space. It does mean there will have to be a round of renegotiations with the guys mentioned above with potentially $55M to save.
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2078 GM Notes, week 8
On the bad side of things, we've actually collected an excess of draft picks for the next off-season. We've got the 2nd round picks of Chicago, Texas and Williamsburg, as well as a 5th from Chicago, on top of our own 7 picks. The cap cost of those picks might be trickier than the contract renegotiations of those mentioned above and extending a majority of the 31 players that will be in their last year of contract...
Let's not get ahead of things, the draft class will be announced later, but holding the 1.29, 2.12, 2.17, 2.26, 2.29, 3.29, 4.29, 5.14, 5.29, 6.29 and 7.29 picks, we've got a lot to work with. The most surprising part probably is that we actually earned the worst of those second rounders by our own record. Chicago shockingly gave us the 2.12 and 5.14 picks, Texas the 2.17 pick. Teams that were 10-6 division champions in the 2077 season. It shouldn't surprise you to read that we've announced a desire to package some of those 2nd round picks and the 1.29 to move up in the draft.
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