Fits in with the "Percy Harvin to the Texans" and "Dwight Howard to the Rockets". Should be in the "Things that will never happen" forum.
We got one of those now? Cool!!!

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Fits in with the "Percy Harvin to the Texans" and "Dwight Howard to the Rockets". Should be in the "Things that will never happen" forum.
AJ's recent re-worked contract counts $700,000 in base this season. Same could be done for those I mentioned above. If we had Wallace, AJ and Martin, could we cut Walter?
I'm sure you could. Have no idea what the cap ramifications would be though. The only thing about re-working contracts is eventually you're going to have to have their contracts count against the cap. Pushing it back has put some teams in cap hell from my understanding of it. Again, I'm with you if they could make it work.
Fits in with the "Percy Harvin to the Texans" and "Dwight Howard to the Rockets". Should be in the "Things that will never happen" forum.
Fits in with the "Percy Harvin to the Texans" and "Dwight Howard to the Rockets". Should be in the "Things that will never happen" forum.
We got one of those now? Cool!!!![]()
Fits in with the "Percy Harvin to the Texans" and "Dwight Howard to the Rockets". Should be in the "Things that will never happen" forum.
Whatever you say.Except Dwight to the Rockets is an actual trade being worked on and not just a fan pipe dream.
My understanding is he got a $5.2m signing bonus that will be averaged thur 2016 so his cap will be much smaller. He also was to get an annual $1m work out bonus but not sure if he gets that under the new 2012 deal.AJ did rework his contract to a 2012 $700,000 base with a $4,848,571 cap hit. Next year his base salary jumps to $6,200,000 and I would suspect that the cap hit would accordingly escalate impressively.
Stephanie Stradley ‏@StephStradley
Please stop listening to vomity sports talk topics. There's no $ for Wallace RT @closest2thepin: what do you think? Tate for mike Wallace?
My understanding is he got a $5.2m signing bonus that will be averaged thur 2016 so his cap will be much smaller. He also was to get an annual $1m work out bonus but not sure if he gets that under the new 2012 deal.
Regardless, it is many millions less than originally and has not been used yet. Ball and the Dallas ILB were peanuts.
He has already been extended thru 2016 but Aj is not the issue. There are other vets that could be re-structured.Every time his salary got restructured, it was changed into a signing bonus that is prorated through the remainder of the contract. He has done that the last two years and has a substantial increase in pay the next few years because of this. AJ will be a cap problem in the next few years if he doesn't get extended for cheap, and have current salary spread out over those extra years.
Quote:I think this sums up the whole Wallace debate pretty well:
Love that word "vomity"
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Stephanie Stradley ‏@StephStradley
Please stop listening to vomity sports talk topics. There's no $ for Wallace RT @closest2thepin: what do you think? Tate for mike Wallace?
Hey Bill, ask Stephanie what happened to the money that is not going to Briesel, WInston, Allen, etc? I thought it was being saved for our 2012 free agents but seems like we have a need now & it seems those guys will not be addressed until after 2012 season.. If Mario had agreed to re-sign with Texans where would that money have come from?
I think it is a legitimate concern and fans want to talk about it, "vomity" or not.
He has already been extended thru 2016 but Aj is not the issue. There are other vets that could be re-structured.
Not this year, starting next year his caphit will be 10 million plus for the next 4 years. We may end up cutting him in 2015 due to cap considerations, but will continue having him on the books due to signing bonuses and restructures.
We just don't have much capspace at this point, and Mike Wallace isn't going to re-sign with us unless we give him AJ money. A team can only have so many AJs, and WRs are kind of useless without a QB. Schaub and Brown will take precedence over Wallace even if we got him somehow, so it would be a 1 year rental. I'd rather keep Tate behind Foster and have him help keep Arian healthy.
Trading AJ would create cap room.
Cap room wont matter if Schaub/AJ only play 8-10 games this yr. AJ's injury history is why I wanted to see the Texans trade up high in the 2nd rd and take Hill/Jeffery like Jets/Bears did.
And you have to select the right person at that spot *cough*RememberCharles Rodgers*cough* so the better route is through free agency.
All evidence to the contrary. Look through the the top 20 receivers. Unless I missed one NONE were obtained through free agency. There is Wes Welker who Miami traded because they were stupid and didn't know how to use the undersized WR (and had no QB) and there is Brandon Marshall who has twice been traded despite 5 straight 80 reception seasons because he is such a head case. The only arguable #1 WR I can think of obtained through free agency is Vincent Jackson and once again that was due to an irreparable relationship.
He still has a good amount of signing bonus and restructure money left on his deal. Trading him would accelerate all of that to the current year, and hamstring our chances of re-signing Schaub, Barwin and Brown. AJ needs to stay on the books for at least two more years, unless he plans on retiring, or he needs to do a minimum deal extension and restructure to spread out the next few years of salary.
I'm not saying we can't keep AJ as it stands right now, but his contract is going to hurt the team in a year or two to the point that we may have to let some of our better up and coming talent go.
Thanks Dutch,
Re-signing Schaub may be the least of the Texans problems if he hurts his foot again.
I get what you're saying about AJ. Looks like the Texans are going to be in a pickle for the next couple of yrs.
BTW Dutch, what do you think of the Texans cap guy/management? Who is their cap guy?
http://www.houstontexans.com/team/staff/chris-olsen/60032eb8-d2f1-471d-9902-4842f91a411dChris Olsen enters his fourth season with the Texans and first as the teams vice president of football administration. He spent 13 years working at the NFL league office in New York. Olsens primary responsibility with the Texans is to work closely with general manager Rick Smith on negotiating player contracts and managing the salary cap.
Olsen served as the manager of labor operations with the NFL Management Council from 1999-2006. He was responsible for reviewing and analyzing player contracts to ensure teams were in compliance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and salary cap. He provided assistance to club executives pertaining to player-related areas of the CBA. He also served as a League liaison to the NFL Players Association regarding player contract matters. In addition, he served as a national game representative and as an instant replay communicator.
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The Texans' "cap guru" (every team has one) is Chris Olsen.
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http://www.houstontexans.com/team/staff/chris-olsen/60032eb8-d2f1-471d-9902-4842f91a411d
Honestly, it's hard to say how good cap management is per team because we really don't know all the numbers, nor do we know what other teams are offering the guys we sign. Last year I thought we would have a ton of cap space going into the offseason due to Mario's expiring deal, but it turned out to be a lot less due to contract escalators and wrongly reported contract numbers for other players. I think you need to evaluate each deal as the information is given to really gauge how well they are managing the cap.
The one that has stuck out to me is Winston, because they could have traded his 2 years 9 million non-guaranteed deal to anyone. Instead they cut him for nothing and then he signed a 4 year 22 million dollar deal. It makes no sense to me at all that they couldn't find a trade partner or that they were in a position where they were forced to cut him that day due to cap constraints. That's not very good planning IMO.
The Demeco trade made sense to me, we needed to bite the bullet and take the cap**** so that we can re-sign Brown, Barwin and/or Schaub. Letting guys like Jason Allen and Brisiel walk are the right decisions. Resigning Foster to a competitive deal was a good move, resigning Myers was a good move. The cap considerations for both of them seem reasonable given their talent levels. The Manning and JJo deals seem very reasonable too.
The biggest cap concerns on the books right now are AJ's contract starting next year and Antonio Smith's contract. AJ's not going anywhere for a while because he has something like 10-12 million in restructure bonus money to be paid out. Moving him would wreck the cap next year. Smith will likely be cut or traded next year to save on his 6 million dollar salary, but will still be paid 2.5 million in unpaid signing bonus. It's a good amount of savings though, and he seems replaceable to me. If it comes down to Barwin OR Smith, I choose Barwin.
I don't think the Texans' cap management is bad per se, but it's not perfect. There is always room for improvement, but if I had to guess I would say the Texans' would be in the top 12 when it comes to cap management. What I really want to see from them this year is the re-signing of Duane Brown for about $10 million a year for 5-7 years, and have that franchise tag available to use on to Schaub or Barwin. That to me would be some cap-fu negotiating magic if they can get Brown for that much and still re-sign one of the other two. If they work a deal to keep all three, barring a collosal injury to one of them, then they will become masters of the cap universe IMO.
If we can get an accurate guage of your cap space, maybe we can start a thread about you Mila.I'm gonna start a "Mila Kunis to my bedroom petition" thread. It has about as much of a chance of happening as the Texans getting a big name WR.