Infantry good work on that, but I'm not sure where you're getting the figures at. Off of the list we posted in this thread, I get the following cap saves:
http://www.houstontexans.com/fan_zone/messageboards/showthread.php?t=16789
Tony Banks - saves 850k (1.256M to keep, 406k to cut) It would save money and he's not overly good, no problem cutting.
Cory Bradford - costs 0 (UFA) - He should have been cut a coule months ago.
Benny Joppru - saves 460k - I think he's worth keeping for his last year and see what he can do if healthy.
Marcellus Rivers - costs 0 (UFA) - I wouldn't mind resigning him for about what he was getting, but he could be released.
Maron Norris - saves 454k - I don't see the point in cutting him, he's a solid blocking FB and not overly expensive.
Tony Hollings - saves 460k - I don't see why we would keep him, hasn'taccomplished anything and better players in front of him.
Steven McKinney - saves 3.9M - In my mind he better take a huge pay cut if he wants to stay, no problems axing him.
Todd Washington - saves 670k - He's a solid backup and you won't find anything better for this cheap, he stays.
Jerry Deloach - saves 373k - Not much need for him after switching to a 4-3.
Junior Ioane - saves 439k - Also not much need after switching to a 4-3.
Trade Deshaun Polk - UFA - would have to resign to trade and take that cap hit, and I doubt you even get a 7th rounder for him.
Troy Evans - costs 0 (RFA) - Not much reason for him to stay.
Marcus Coleman - saves 529k - He should be cut on principle after how bad he played last year, trade him if we can get anything.
Trade Philip Buchanon - costs 0 - Not sure how much you can get for him now, maybe a 5th or send with Coleman for a 4th.
Jason Simons - saves 564k - Not especially good so not much point in keeping him.
Ramon Walker - costs 0 - No reason to keep him.
Gary Walker - costs $1.518M to ax - I don't really like him that much but that's a decent hit for getting rid of him, at least cutting/trading Payne would save you 540k and they have about equal value on the field.
Additions to install the new West coast offense and 43 defense
The West Coast offense isn't happening, the 4-3 defense is.
Your proposed cuts/trades would save us an additional $7.2M in cap space this year, plus some of those I don't agree with. For saving that 7.2M, you are losing 17 players that you have to replace, which only gives us $423k per player to replace them, so you're going to have to get some really crappy guys to replace them in order to save any money on the whole process. Even not considering replacing those guys, $7.2M in cap space would barely cover Edgerrin James, or it might get you LeCharles Bentley and Will Witherspoon if we can land those guys. We do have some more cap room already, but a decent amount of that will be used up on rookies, especially if we stay at the #1 pick, and we need to keep a little cap room available in case we need to make a couple other roster moves down the road. I still don't like several of your draft picks too.
RB Edgerrin James
FB Shaun Bryson
C LeCharles Bentley
CB Nate Clements
FS Lance Shultzer
LB Will Weatherspoon
LB Cato June
DE Kyle Van Bosch
DE Robert Mathis
Draft
QB Vince Young
LB D'qwell Jackson
TE David Thomas
G Laitusi Lutui
DE Willie Evans
TE Cooper Wallace
T/G Troy Reddeck
WR Jared Ellerson
Plus 2 extra picks in 4 and 5
What do ya'll think of this plan?
