Seymour":1s7gfprc said:
original poster":1s7gfprc said:
Seymour have a look at the 2019 cap, it looks far brighter.
They went for it all in 2017 at the expense of 2018 and it didn’t work out.
Nobody on this planet would have been unhappy with it had it worked, and it very easily could have done if it wasn’t for a number of factors outside of their control.
I appreciate the upbeat post, but we go from 46 players under contract to 22 players under contract in 2019 and have lost draft picks due to poor moves (actually 19 players if you remove McDowell, Lane, Chancellor) I see that as a whole different problem, not necessarily better for building a winning team. Also, many of those left will be near their careers end.
We will have an average of $2.6M per player to fill those 31 spots to make the 53.
I'm going to estimate the 2019 salary cap at $190M.
22 players under contract already. leaving 29 roster spors that count against the cap to fill.
With that said, it's almost a given that the following won't be on the team in 2019 - Michael Bennett, Jeremy Lane, Kam Chancellor and Jon Ryan.
So actually, there's 18 players under contract, leaving 33 roster spots (not including the two free ones).
Assuming a cap space of $190M that leaves the team with a staggering $114M to build the team. That's a lot...
Dividing that up equally between all the players needing a roster spot makes it $3.45M per player, but obviously it doesn't work out like that.
Lets assume 5 drafted players make the team in 2018, 2 UDFA's and 6 drafted players in 2019 with, again, 2 UDFA's.
As a pretty accurate estimate, that'll cost the team about $12M in cap space for 2019. Now the team has 18 roster spots and $102M in cap space.
Dividing that up equally again, and thats $5.66M per player, looking a lot better now.
Obviously some of those will be vet minimum, lets say the Seahawks sign 4 vet minimums with 4-6 years experience and 1 with 7-9 years experience, that will cost the team exactly $4.075M.
Now the cap space is at $97,925,000.
Now thats $7.5M per player. 13 players earning $7.5M.
Player 1 gets - $4M
Player 2 gets $4M
Player 3 gets $4.5M
Player 4 gets $4.75M
Player 5 gets $5.25M
Player 6 gets $5.25M
Player 7 gets $6M
Player 8 gets $6.25M
Player 9 gets $8M
Player 10 gets $10.5M
Player 11 gets $10.5M
Player 12 gets $13M
Player 13 gets $16M
That would mean 7 players are earning over $10M a year, a fair amount of rookies some depth players are a good chunk of impact players.
That MUST make you feel better about the team going forwards.
I don't want people to think the Seahawks are in a downward trend due to their cap issues in 2018, the reality is, barring one single year, they are in a fantastic place to reload old talent and pay the existing rookies that are worthy and deserving of a second contract.
It's no mistake that John has all this cap space in 2019 and firms up my belief that they are in a 2 year plan to churn the roster and still put out a truly fantastic team in 2018, 2019 and beyond.