Bears have spent 90% of cap space

[hyatt151]

You realize JC get $22.5 M real money next year no matter what, right? If its called salary it goes 100% against next years cap, if it's called bonus 20%counts for each of the next 5 yrs. They can spread out as much or as little as they need for cap purposes. The only change is on paper, it has zero affect on Cutler.

I see that, but when you restructure you have to pay the piper sooner or later.

 

[iueyedoc]

I see that, but when you restructure you have to pay the piper sooner or later.

That's why CFS wrote the contract that way. If they need a million more for a FA they want the can take as little as they want away from salary for Signing Bonus. It is a brilliant set up. They can use as much as possible of JC $22.5 M as salary leaving more room for future years caps, and still create the necessary space to get the FA's they covet.

 

[WCL]

I love that it's already been shortened to "CFS."

 

[PolarBear]

 

[xer0h0ur]

Best motha fuckin capologist in the game

 

[KittiesKorner]

Fuckit

 

[Tjodalv]

No one is insinuating that the Bears aren't going to be able to fill out their roster. The question is are they going to be able to rebuild their defense with anything but one-year contract 30-year-old veterans and a few draft picks and some UDFAs. Where is the money going to come from to get at least two solid starters on the defense and re-sign the players we need to re-sign?

The Bears clear out cap space, hooray...but there's still a disaster that exists on the front seven and as TeddyKGB rightly points out the Bears are likely going to watch their two best players on defense leave via free agency.

Who are the best players that play on the front seven that will be back for certain? Stephen Paea (not many people on this board like him thanks to Windy City) and Jon Bostic?

Post of the day. In summation: "how is it that clearing more cap space [in the ways previously described by several posters] help us to fill spots in the front 7 with solid starters?"

Fucking brilliant as always.

 

[botfly10]

Did DB51 just start a salary cap thread...?

 

[Tjodalv]

Did DB51 just start a salary cap thread...?

Yes, that also happened...

 

[botfly10]

Well, its too bad the Bears have until what, March, to make roster cuts without paying roster bonuses?

 

[bullsadonisdna]

D-d-d-do u think a t-t-team that retains Tucker K-k-k-knows what they are d-d-d-doing with the c-c-c-ap?

 

[xer0h0ur]

You have no room to talk. You have shown zero knowledge of football in every single post I have read. In fact, you like BF51, might be better served scrapping your forum persona for new accounts.

 

[fatbeard]

D-d-d-do u think a t-t-team that retains Tucker K-k-k-knows what they are d-d-d-doing with the c-c-c-ap?

"Mel Tucker ate my baby!"

 

[fenderpfunk]

I know Im getting a cliff stein replica Jersey this fall.

 

[xer0h0ur]

Sure it wasn't a dingo?

 

[bullsadonisdna]

"Mel Tucker ate my baby!"

No! He ate my defense! Our defense! And ur letting him. :crying:

 

[Bearfanfromnewjersey]

This is the same GM that let the face of the franchise walk... I'm not concerned about the cap.

Cutler got signed?

 

[bullsadonisdna]

Cutler got signed?

Brian Urlacher. The guys was literally the face of the franchise even voted the most marketable chicago athlete above derrick rose.

 

[fatbeard]

Brian Urlacher. The guys was literally the face of the franchise even voted the most marketable chicago athlete above derrick rose.

Too bad he wasn't the legs of the franchise, or else he could've stayed and played a little longer.

 

[bullsadonisdna]

Too bad he wasn't the legs of the franchise, or else he could've stayed and played a little longer.

but then again, what do our defensive evaluators know about anything?