BuffaloRebound Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 Salary cap for 2007 is $109m. Bills are at approximately $70m. NFL rules mandate each team use at least 85.2% of the 2007 salary cap. That means the Bills have to spend at least $23m this offseason in salary cap. The bills rookie cap will not be much more than $5m. That leaves $18m on free agents towards the salary cap. I am just curious if this has been discussed, but Ralph is gonna have to spend that money on someone.
MadBuffaloDisease Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 I suspect that if nothing is resolved at the qualifiers committee meeting on the 23rd, Ralph will spend where he did this past season, i.e. about $10M under the cap. So yes he'll have to spend a good chunk of change, but how much depends on the qualifiers committee.
BuffaloRebound Posted January 19, 2007 Author Posted January 19, 2007 Why are people conceding that Clements is gone then? It seems like Ralph is gonna have to spend like Snyder just to get to 85% of the cap. Even if he front-loads all the contracts for cap purposes, he'll just have the same problem the following year.
L.EvansHands Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 sorta makes you realize why everyone was getting a 2 million dollar a year deal though doesn't it...
keepthefaith Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 Why are people conceding that Clements is gone then? It seems like Ralph is gonna have to spend like Snyder just to get to 85% of the cap. Even if he front-loads all the contracts for cap purposes, he'll just have the same problem the following year. I'm hoping Ralph will surprise some people this offseason. Not that he should be reckless, but at his age, he just wants to win. He said this last year when he hired Marv. Hopefully he takes advantage of the Bill's position cap-wise and the Bills are players this off-season in free agency. Although the free agent list is not impressive.
marauderswr80 Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 One thing is for sure, its going to be an interesting offseason indeed.
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