Raiders Franchises

[DoubleIt5]

Just curious, how have you guys handled the salary cap in your Raiders franchises?

[maddenfalcon]

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ive been trying, you basically have to accept 4 bad seasons and not sign a soul, then you can totally start rebuilding, if you have upstaed game with patch on 360, tryout chiefs.

[LaW97]

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jus scout and sim the first season. unless you are into playing frustrating games.
your first season with the raiders you are basically screwed unless you find guys in the draft who are willing to sign those 7 year deals for next to nothing.


dont resign anyone except nnandi asoug****it if he is available for FA

DO NOT RESIGN RICHARD SEYMOUR. he will demand a HUGE contract

wit all the open slots,jus pick up FA's that will sign for the minimum.
it wont matter who is on the roster because you will need to sim the second season also to get thru the years it takes to be able to cut players with huge signing bonuses(it actually takes 4 years but you can kinda manage it by year 3)

release robert gallery after your first season. that should free up about 12 million

sign Lito Sheppard and move him to safety.

[MiWolves]

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I just trade people who have a high salary cap who have 1 year left every year.

[LaW97]

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I just trade people who have a high salary cap who have 1 year left every year.

thats the problem.
the raiders have too many players signed to long term contracts

[RedZoneD25]

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I had one...

I let Nnamdi go, because he's been locked up in Oakland forever and I felt bad.

I restructured JaBustus' deal so he walked after Season 1...Along with Seymour. Nothing like shredding a team even more than it is, but I actually won more games in season 2 with Andre Woodson as QB (sim all games) ...3-13 in season 1, and 5-11 season 2....i know all the draft gems so i purposely don't scout, so i don't know who to trade up/down for.

basically i got to year 7 and realized i hated the raiders boring look/feel. so i deleted it, and just drafted a 20 year old Terrelle Pryor to take over my Bills franchise.

[synbios]

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I Resign Seymour, trade Morrison for Jason Jones (DT of Titans), sign Guyton in free agancy, draft a couple of O-linemen, cut Gallery, Javon Walker, and i found a steal in a draft, i draft a DT O. Williams (i think that was his name).

But i really don't know how those moves will affect my salary cap next season.

I trade for Nate Davis also, i sent Higgins to the Niners and a 5th round pick.

[swivel63]

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Just curious, how have you guys handled the salary cap in your Raiders franchises?

i've had to do a little cheating. it is what it is. LOL.

[henson]

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i've had to do a little cheating. it is what it is. LOL.

[Howie75]

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How much cap room do you need to accommodate the draft??

I had planned on resigning Gallery to a new deal to free up some cap space and trying to move Russell (if possible).

BTW I am in week 15 of year 1.

I'm also wondering if there is any advantage to signing potential FA now instead of waiting for the off season (Morrison, Howard etc)

[BloodMeridian]

Re: Raiders Franchises

How much cap room do you need to accommodate the draft??

I had planned on resigning Gallery to a new deal to free up some cap space and trying to move Russell (if possible).

BTW I am in week 15 of year 1.

I'm also wondering if there is any advantage to signing potential FA now instead of waiting for the off season (Morrison, Howard etc)

If you need to you can release or trade Carlisle to free up some space with no cap penalty. I wouldn't bother re-signing Gallery until his contract is up....and even then I wouldn't re-sign him. You can put the tag on Seymour at the end of the year and trade him without penalty as well.

You'll have to decide on re-signing Schilens, Morrison, L. Walker, Gradkowski, G***ssell....the rest are pretty easy to let go or re-sign cheap if I remember correctly. I haven't noticed yet if it's better to sign them early or not but I think it might be based on how they perform during the season/playoffs. I always sign Z. Miller when he's got a couple of years left. Otherwise, he'll demand a huge contract when it's up since I use him so much.

I never have a problem signing my draft picks. I like to draft LB, DE, DT, CB, WR, FB, LB after the first year.

[NoSubs]

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I have been simming Raiders franchise for fun. I am at the beginning of year 2.

I kept Gallery and Javon Walker through the first season, as the cap penalty to release them is huge. I released/traded a lot of players. I can't recall exactly who, but it added up the $26M of cap penalties for the second year. A lot of overpaid players, with one guard (not Gallery, can't remember his name), and Greg Ellis as probably the only guys in the 80s that were let go (the rest 70s and below).

At the end of the first season, other than Seymour and one or two other players with B potential, I let all the FA's go. It was over 20 (I signed a bunch of guys to one year deals after releasing/trading a number of the overpaid players).

At the beginning of the second season I released Javon Walker. I easily signed all 10 of my draft picks because other than the first rounder, they don't ask for much money. I had a really successful draft. I got A potential players at RT, FB, SS, K, WR, and B players at LT, HB. That allowed me to trade the current starting LT for Ernie Sims (OLB), I signed a young guard, traded my previous starting SS for a young CB from Dallas.

The team is set up to succeed in the future. Next year the $26 mil cap penalty will go down to $12 mil (from releasing Walker), and Gallery's contract will expire. I just need to decide whether to keep Russel. I need a better DT, FS, and C (possibly QB too). I have a whole bunch of A potential players waiting to progress. Not as challenging as I thought it would be, but I enjoy seeing the difference made to the roster.

[spliff616]

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Say what you will, but I traded Jamarcus to New England for a seventh round pick. This freed up alot of cap room, plus I consider it payback for the "Tuck Rule."

[RyanLeaf16]

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Not saying you have to, but, negotiations on the new CBA are going "poorly" per PFT.com and 2010 is scheduled to be an uncapped year. You can always turn the salary cap off and just sim the first year. Only problem with playing an uncapped year is that some of the contract issues would not be in the game (i.e. multiple transition tags, 6-years of service for UFA instead of 4, etc.)

[Richieh]

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I didn't have to make any major cuts. The key is only releasing those cap eaters when the cut penalty is lower than the salary. If you do that, avoid major FA signings and don't trade, you can keep the better players - Seymour, Asamogagh, Morrison, etc. I still have JaMarcus, but will took a 3rd rounder with B potential who will ride the bench this year and then we'll see how the two progress and what's in the draft.