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[williams_482]

Why is the carryover from 2012 $5.6 million? according to this rather impressive graphic they were roughly $17.7M under cap last season. Is that total scaled down when rolled over, or is their cap figure wrong? 

[phragle]

Whatever accurate information is in there is presented so poorly that you end up giving exactly the wrong impression about the Pats' 2014 cap system.  He's suggesting that it's going to be tight--and depending on what they do this off-season it might be--but as of right now the Pats have a decent amount of cap space in 2014 (14 million left after paying draft picks, so you have $14 million to fill out the last 4 guys on the roster and IR), with the vast majority of their starters under contract, and a zillion ways to increase the cap space if they want to since you have a lot of players who can be cut without creating too much dead money, and you have other good players (like Brady) who could easily be restructured.  

 

Plus pearl-clutching about a team that's $14 million under the cap with a ton of guys signed is just overblown.  That's not a tight situation at all--as a simple example the Steelers are about $20 million over the 2013 cap after RFAs and draft picks are counted, with four slots to fill, and the 2013 Jets are more than $30 million over the 2013 cap when RFAs and draft picks are counted (they do have a full roster). 

 

The author is too busy thinking about the mote in Belichick's eye and ignoring the log in his own. 

 

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[wutang112878]

Why is the carryover from 2012 $5.6 million? according to this rather impressive graphic they were roughly $17.7M under cap last season. Is that total scaled down when rolled over, or is their cap figure wrong? 

 

That graphic is cool, but their numbers must be wrong.  At first glance most of the high cap numbers seem about right, but I dont see any deadmoney on there and I know we had some this year, so its just not 100% includes of all our cap hits.