Salary Cap...
 

Not sure if accurate, but found the infomation interesting....

New Orleans Saints - 2012 Cap Hits

Examples;
Bushrod $6.750mm vs. Brown $745K
Vilma $6.6mm vs. Dunbar ??? or one of the many MLB visitors
Kory Hall $1.050mm vs. Jed Collins $415K
Scott Shanle $2.95mm vs. Casillas ???
Herring $1.733mm vs. Wilson $671K
Ellis $7.757mm vs. Johnson $465K Mitch King ???

Ok, you can make an argument for Ellis because there MAY be talent there. But Shanle??? This guy has to be on the brother-in-law contract because he knows someone. $3 MILLION????? Thats the worst pay:production ratio I've heard since Jamarcus Russell

I know its been asked before, but I haven't seen a decent answer.

If Shanle is as bad as player as so many people claim, why hasn't ANYONE taken his starting role from him?

Maybe if the players that could replace him wouldn't get injuried, he would be gone.

Heard of favoritism? OR maybe...the LB coach is just as bad as he is and he thinks Shanle is good? Which would explain why our LB's have sucked for so long.

I don't really get your point.

All of those "big salary" guys are either on their 2nd or 3rd contracts except for Ellis who was a high 1st round pick under the former CBA with higher rookie salaries.

Jed Collins had bounced around the league trying to find a team and was probably willing to sign for peanuts just to have a roster spot, whereas the Saints went after Hall to sign him away from the Packers to be a ST contributor.

Do you think Brown should be payed more than that? Bushrod will be entering the 2nd year of his 2-year contract, and he is fairly affordable when it comes to LT contracts.

I think Casillas got the minimum tender of ~$1.3M, which is fair because he hasn't shown that he can stay healthy long enough to make a real contribution - I have no excuse for the salary Shanle is making.

Herring was another one who was signed away from the Seasquaks, so he got a fairly reasonable contract which includes a lot of escalator clauses - for what they thought they'd be getting from him, he wasn't really over-payed. Wilson is getting payed what the new CBA pretty much designates for a rookie who was picked where he was picked in the draft.

And Vilma was given a fair contract IMO for the production he was estimated of being able to give to the Saints, and which he did up until late 2010 season when his knees started to act up. If he was playing at a 100% level, that salary would be on the cheap side - and the fact that he isn't was something they couldn't really estimate and build into the contract at the time it was drawn up.

If I'm looking at that list right we should have about 7.8 million in cap space left after the rollover and 3.6 before the rollover, so we still have a bit of room to work with.

Fin, thanks. You got the point. It is information shared with a group of people who share a passion (Saints) which instigates discourse.

Is Vilma's cap number big enough to allow bringing in Lofton and Woodyard if he's released? Is Big Sed's cap number big enough to allow us to bring in Luis Castillo and Amobi Okoye? I like both of them but we have holes to fill and need depth...And, oh yeah, cut Shanle for goodness sake.

I think Sed Ellis needs to go.. or be restructured and make less money. His production to salary is horrible and probably one of the worst in the league.

Restructuring has its problems, since I don't think Ellis would be willing to simply take a pay cut, so they would have to offer him an extension in order to bring down the annual cap hit.

So instead of this season being his last, there'd be more years to follow, which of course might not be a bad thing if Spags is finally able to light a fire under his butt.

Sedrick Ellis was a bit of a reach. We haven't seen the production I was hoping for and he's had two big fat DT's to help free him up the last year.

Yeah, and that was the plan going into last season - the two NTs drawing double teams leaving Ellis 1-on-1 with an O-lineman to have a career year - but he wasn't able to make the most out of the situation.

I still have some hope that if Ellis remains on the roster for nest season, Spags is able coach him up to have a career year on a contract year, but there are naturally no guarantees that it'll happen.

The site is accurate. I've used it for quite awhile and got the link from a Packers beat writer. Very good site. Glad someone else found it.

I agree it is one of the better sites for salary related info, but they aren't always correct in all of the details, but that is to be expected with teams not always publicly revealing all of the contract details.

It's a good idea to cross-reference the salary info from at least 2 or 3 sites, so there's a much larger probability of having the contract figures and details correct than just referencing one.