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Does anyone know what kind of situation the Bears are in for the 08 cap, and whether cutting people like Moose, Benson, Griese, Walker and Archuletta would be beneficial/harmful from a cap standpoint. Would be nice to know if some potentially helpful players (Starks, Faneca, Hackett, Porter etc) are even feasible given our cap situaiton.

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Does anyone know what kind of situation the Bears are in for the 08 cap, and whether cutting people like Moose, Benson, Griese, Walker and Archuletta would be beneficial/harmful from a cap standpoint. Would be nice to know if some potentially helpful players (Starks, Faneca, Hackett, Porter etc) are even feasible given our cap situaiton.

 

Calling LT2_3 - Calling LT2_3 - we need your help...... LOL Where is our cap expert when we need him :notworthy

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Walker will be cut because he has a 5M roster bonus due to him and there is no way they will give it to him. Mike Brown could save them cap room, not a ton of it though when you consider the difference between cutting him and what his replacement would cost (even if you went with a super low budget replacement).

 

Moose/Griese would each save you a bit of money, but both of these guys contracts were pretty evenly structured to the point that I don't think there would be any substantial savings when you cut them (but you could probably clear a few Mill off the books).

 

I don't have exact numbers though and hopefully LT or someone else can stop by and give a pretty good analysis on the Bears options to get under the cap. I do remember seeing that it is possible for them (by getting rid of a few players) to get about 25M under the cap (you also have to figure that Briggs, even if he gets a fat contract from the Bears, will have a smaller cap hit than he did this past year given the fact that his money will be spread out over the contract).

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we have 19 million but factor about 5-6 million out of that for the draftees.

 

And Benson will not be cut...

 

i wouldn't be so sure. probably not, but the team was no worse with A-Pete at running, Benson has never shown ANYTHING whatsoever, is coming off a semi-serious injury and doesn't work our hard, which could slow his recovery, and is a year from his contract being unusuable. He is no better than a replacement level player, so the team might be better off using that money to sign someone like Ayanbadejo, who might have to go if Benson is here (not that the two are necessarily related.

 

I can give a laundry list of reasons to cut him, I'm not sure I can list any reasons to keep him outside of an ego thing with Angelo.

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copied from another board, hope that's ok

 

Name............... Base salary......Signing bonus(amortized) ......Other bonus(roster etc)........ Total

 

1.Adams, A $800,000 $250,000 - $1,050,000

 

2.Anderson ,M $445,000 $39,000 - $484,000

 

3.Archueta,A $730,000 $1,000,000 - $1,730,000

 

4.Bazuin,D $370,000 $295,000 - $665,000

 

5. Beekman,J $370,000 $97,500 - $467,500

 

6. Benson ,C $820,000 $2,400,000 ? $3,220,000

 

7. Bradley,M $520,000 $300,000 - $820,000

 

8. Brown,Alex $550,000 $1,100,000 - $1,650,000

 

8A. Brown,M $2,440,000 $833,333 - $3,273,333

 

9. Clark,D $1,000,000 $1,000,000 - $2,000,000

 

10. Dvoracek,D $455,000 $187,500 - $632,500

 

11.Garza,R $730,000 $583,000 - $1,313,000

 

12. Gattis, $370,000 - - $370,000

 

13.Gould, R $460,000 $50,000 - $510,000

 

*14. Graham, C $370,000 $37,500 - $407,500

 

*15. Griese,B $1,400,000 $900,000 $300,000 $2,600,000

 

16. Harris,T $977,500 $525,000 - $1,495,000

 

17. Hass,M $370,000 - - $370,000

 

18. Hester,D $445,000 $226,750 - $671,750

 

19. Hillenmeyer,H $1,450,000 $1,000,000 - $2,450,000

 

20. Idonije,I $1,500,000 $400,000 - $1,900,000

 

21. Kreutz,Olin $2,333,000 $3,000,000 - $5,333,000

 

22. Mannelly,P $770,000 $93,000 - $863,000

 

23. Manning, D $445,000 $400,000 - $845,000

 

24. Manning,R $1,850,000 $1,000,000 - $2,850,000

 

25. Maynard,B $925,000 $360,000 - $1,285,000

 

26. Mcbride,T $370,000 $13,750 - $383,750

 

27. McGlover, D $520,000 -- - $520,000

 

28. Mckie, J $605,000 $250,000 - $855,000

 

29. Metcalf, T $900,000 $583,000 - $1,482,000

 

30. Miller,F $4,000,000 $1,200,000 - $5,200,000

 

31. Muhammad,M $1,600,000 $1,000,000 $500,000 $3,100,000

 

32.Ogunleye,A $4,700,000 $2,500,000 - $7,200,000

 

33. Okwo,M $370,000 $145,000 - $515,000

 

34. Olsen,G $370,000 $50,000 $4,025,000 $4,445,000

 

35. Orton,K $370,000 $114,500 - $484,500

 

36. Payne. K $370,000 $37,500 - $407,500

 

37. Peterson,A $605,000 $333,333 - $938,333

 

38. Polite,L $520,000 - - $520,000

 

39.St. Clair,J $750,000 $250,000 - $1,000,000

 

40. Tait, J $4,600,000 $2,333,333 - $6,933,333

 

41. Tillman,C $750,000 $2,570,000 - $3,321,000

 

*42. Toeaina,M $370,000 ?? - $370,000

 

43. Urlacher, B $3,950,000 $2,167,000 - $6,116,667

 

44. Vasher, N $750,000 $1,900,000 $2,500,000 $5,150,000

 

45. Walker, D $1,150,000 $600,000 $5,200,000 $6,950,000

 

46. Williams,J $445,000 $103,000 - $548,000

 

47. Wilson, R $520,000 ? - $520,000

 

48. Wolfe,G $370,000 $155,000 - $525,000

 

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TOTAL $96,758,499

 

 

 

LBTE's not earned $1,700,000

 

salary cap $116,000,000

 

Room left $20.941 mill

 

-rookie pool

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