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jeanpierre 03-24-2012 12:03 AM

Seriously, though...

Where are we with Lofton?

Is the FP waiting for the market to convince himself of the reality of what his current earning potential?

SaintsRule11 03-24-2012 12:19 AM

I sure hope we offer him a monster contract and lock him up for five years. The guy's a beast!

|Mitch| 03-24-2012 12:20 AM

a montster contract? We were 1.28 million under the cap before the Chamberlain signing...

SaintsRule11 03-24-2012 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by |Mitch| (Post 391868)
a montster contract? We were 1.28 million under the cap before the Chamberlain signing...

We can restructure other contracts and we are likely dropping Vilma anyway, which would save about $4 million in cap space. The deadline to get under the cap isn't for months anyway. The priority is to build a great team first and worry about the cap later.

|Mitch| 03-24-2012 12:28 AM

Don't forget Drew wants another 5 million...

alleycat_126 03-24-2012 03:08 AM

The Chamberlain Signing clearly doesn't mean that much, We wanted Hawthorne chamberlain knows the defense though, Shanle should be released in the coming days.

FinSaint 03-24-2012 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by SaintsRule11 (Post 391870)
We can restructure other contracts and we are likely dropping Vilma anyway, which would save about $4 million in cap space. The deadline to get under the cap isn't for months anyway. The priority is to build a great team first and worry about the cap later.


I'm not totally convinced that the Saints will be cutting Vilma, because it all depends on what type of a punishment (if any) he'll get for his involvement in the BountyGate, and what his health situation is now and going forward.

Like I've already stated in other threads, if Vilma gets a year-long suspension, financially the best course of action for the Saints would be to keep him as a player, because that way they'd free up the most salary cap room.

If he can play at (at least) a 95% level this coming season and he doesn't get suspended, I do think that the Saints should go forward with him as the starting MLB, because once again it would probably end up being financially the best way to go. Jonathan Vilma playing at a 100% health level (i.e. 2009) would definitely be worth the $6.6M cap hit, IMO.


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