Saints begin cap cutting(Greer,Harper,Smith,Vilma)

TheOak · 02-13-2014, 05:05 AM

Originally Posted by ScottF

So, if they are cut by us today, when is the date we can resign... June 1 or later?

We could sign him when ever we want to, we just signed Dawson to an extension.

We won't though. If you look at Greers contract, he didn't need to be cut to gain near 3m in cap space, all he had to do was agree to a lower salary.

It appears he himself chose to hit the market.

The numbers:

If Greer played for vet minimum (10 years) he would have made roughly 1.46m in 2014, and reduced his cap hit from 5.8m to 2.875m an estimated 2.9m in relief. Cutting him only saved us 2.6m in cap space.

So cutting him was not the teams choice, and he could have easily restructured for less, he wants more money.

We did not gut Greer to resign him for less.

02-13-2014, 05:05 AM	#11
TheOak 10000 POST CLUB Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Cypress Tx. Posts: 19,047	Re: Saints begin cap cutting(Greer,Harper,Smith,Vilma) Originally Posted by ScottF So, if they are cut by us today, when is the date we can resign... June 1 or later? We could sign him when ever we want to, we just signed Dawson to an extension. We won't though. If you look at Greers contract, he didn't need to be cut to gain near 3m in cap space, all he had to do was agree to a lower salary. It appears he himself chose to hit the market. The numbers: If Greer played for vet minimum (10 years) he would have made roughly 1.46m in 2014, and reduced his cap hit from 5.8m to 2.875m an estimated 2.9m in relief. Cutting him only saved us 2.6m in cap space. So cutting him was not the teams choice, and he could have easily restructured for less, he wants more money. We did not gut Greer to resign him for less.
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