Melton Visting Seahawks

[satchice]

dam. i'd really rather him sign with us. I dont see why we cant offer him a 3 year deal, thats basically not guarenteed past year 2. We can still draft Donald... so our starting rotation would be Houston, Melton, Donald, Young... with Ratliff , Collins, and Paea rotating in and depth.

Did you mean Melton and Donald would rotate keeping meltons leg fresh and Ratliff and Paea would rotate?

 

[satchice]

QUOTE=fatbeard;1276899]Didn't they have to release/let walk guys in order to have the space to sign Bennett? I doubt they'd have enough room to sign Melton on top of that. He's probably looking for at least 5-6mil per year.[/QUOTE]

They should have about 7 million in cap space

http://overthecap.com/nfl-cap-space.php?Year=2013

 

[JoshMcCownFTW]

Didn't they have to release/let walk guys in order to have the space to sign Bennett? I doubt they'd have enough room to sign Melton on top of that. He's probably looking for at least 5-6mil per year.

They are at About 15 Mil Cap Space. They cut Clemons so that helped them out a lot.

http://www.spotrac.com/cap-tracker/nfl/

 

[JoshMcCownFTW]

QUOTE=fatbeard;1276899]Didn't they have to release/let walk guys in order to have the space to sign Bennett? I doubt they'd have enough room to sign Melton on top of that. He's probably looking for at least 5-6mil per year.

They should have about 7 million in cap space

http://overthecap.com/nfl-cap-space.php?Year=2013[/QUOTE]

It's actually 14.7 currently

 

[fatbeard]

QUOTE=fatbeard;1276899]Didn't they have to release/let walk guys in order to have the space to sign Bennett? I doubt they'd have enough room to sign Melton on top of that. He's probably looking for at least 5-6mil per year.

They should have about 7 million in cap space

http://overthecap.com/nfl-cap-space.php?Year=2013[/QUOTE]

Most of that remaining 7mil is going to be eaten by rookie signings and emergency buffer. They'd have to make some roster moves to land Melton.

 

[JoshMcCownFTW]

We are at 8.9 currently, so I guess we could afford him if we backloaded a contract.

 

[satchice]

They should have about 7 million in cap space

http://overthecap.com/nfl-cap-space.php?Year=2013

It's actually 14.7 currently[/QUOTE]

either way they have more then the Bears and enough to offer a creative 1 year 5 million dollar deal.

 

[botfly10]

Bennett or Avril-esque signing for the Seahawks and Melton, as others have stated. He has no reason to give the Bears a loyalty discount after failing to receive a multi-year deal and instead being franchised, which eventually led him to this point. Sucks to see him go (most likely), but it was hard seeing him wanting to come back unless the Bears wanted to pay up.

The Bears offered him a multi year deal and he turned it down. Then he missed the whole season. He chose to gamble and lost. Hopefully this time around he is smarter.

 

[satchice]

We are at 8.9 currently, so I guess we could afford him if we backloaded a contract.

Im not doubting you, I just would like to know. Why are the two site so differenet?


http://www.spotrac.com/cap-tracker/nfl/
http://overthecap.com/nfl-cap-space.php?Year=2013
Over the cap has lower numbers So i would think they are more up to date, but what do I know ?

 

[JoshMcCownFTW]

Im not doubting you, I just would like to know. Why are the two site so differenet?


http://www.spotrac.com/cap-tracker/nfl/
http://overthecap.com/nfl-cap-space.php?Year=2013
Over the cap has lower numbers So i would think they are more up to date, but what do I know ?

You are looking at the wrong year for over the cap.

 

[botfly10]

Im not doubting you, I just would like to know. Why are the two site so differenet?


http://www.spotrac.com/cap-tracker/nfl/
http://overthecap.com/nfl-cap-space.php?Year=2013
Over the cap has lower numbers So i would think they are more up to date, but what do I know ?

Numbers are always different because its all based on speculation more or less. Its not like these guys actually get to look at player contracts and run numbers through a team of accountants. They harvest contract numbers from leaks in the media just like fans and everyone else.

 

[satchice]

You are looking at the wrong year for over the cap.

No im not. Did you even click on the link? Over the cap changes more then once a day, that sportrac one still has the Raiders at over 57 million

 

[JoshMcCownFTW]

No im not. Did you even click on the link? Over the cap changes more then once a day, that sprtrac one still has the Raiders at over 57 million

Yes you are. You are looking at year 2013 for over the cap.
http://overthecap.com/nfl-cap-space.php?Year=2013
http://overthecap.com/nfl-cap-space.php?Year=2014

Of course the two sites aren't going to be perfectly the same, it's an estimation. Go look at the link you posted, it's 2013... not 2014.

 

[Monk]

Meltong going to Dallas after Seattle.

 

[nvanprooyen]

Well...if he ends up in Dallas, maybe that will discourage them from jumping ahead of us for Donald. I could live with that.