Salary cap can increase to $126.885 million in 2011

Ike may not be gone yet!

10 months ago LV Steelers Fan 9 comments 0 recs |

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If this is true, it is great news for us

We can keep Ike without having to cut Aaron Smith.

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by StoneColdSteel on Jul 22, 2011 9:49 PM EDT reply actions

I’m not so sure about that – I think they’re already around $127M for this year, and that’s WITHOUT signing ANY of their free agents or draft picks. Every extra million helps, but there will still be a lot of tough decisions to make. Sure hope they do manage to keep Ike though, I don’t like the depth behind him…

by NW86 on Jul 22, 2011 11:21 PM EDT reply actions

We're at $130M

Colbert’s still going to have some fancy tapdancing to do to free up the room to resign Ike and a vet OT (Flozell is not going to be pulling down $5 million)

by barnerburner on Jul 23, 2011 3:20 PM EDT reply actions

i posted the projected caps on all teams for 2011

and if the numbers are right, steelers are at $116mm, which means they could spend up to $10.875mm, but realistically they are going to have to re-do many contracts b/c the bucs are required to spend at least $59.7mm more with the new CBA and could spend up to $67.405 if they wanted to max out. (highly unlikely they will max out but they could)

salary cap is $120.375 for 2011 with 2 transition bumps ($3.5mm for vets and $3mm availabe to borrow from a future cap year, which must be repaid).

so my math says the max-out salary cap# is $126.875mm -$116mm = $10.875 available for steelers. unfortunately, there are 22 teams who have near $20mm up to almost $70mm available to spend per team.

so if you look at the steelers on their own, you might not say it’s too bad until you realize the rest of the league is going to be out there bidding huge on guys like Ike because they have to spend the money.

by kk99 on Jul 24, 2011 6:18 PM EDT reply actions

That number that you’re quoting doesn’t include Woodley’s franchise tag or any of the RFA tenders – Yasinskas omitted them because when he wrote it back in February he didn’t know if those types of contracts would still exist in the new CBA.

We’re going to be about $10.5M over

by barnerburner on Jul 25, 2011 12:41 AM EDT up reply actions

#4 on that list is stupid

Why cut Sweed now? He’s on the books for less than a million and has a very high ceiling. They’d be better off cutting someone like Fox and giving Foote a restructure or be cut offer.

Back on the Sweed train. Choo Choo!
"It’s easy to lie with statistics, but it’s easier to lie without them." -Fred Mosteller

by John Stephens on Jul 25, 2011 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions

LOL

Your obsession with Sweed is almost unhealthy.

Pittsburgh Steelers fan - nuff said.
Miami Hurricanes fan - nuff said.
Georgetown Hoyas fan - nuff said.
Cleveland Cavaliers fan - um yeah, about that...

by StoneColdSteel on Jul 26, 2011 12:41 AM EDT up reply actions