Pats full offseason

[cochise]

Lets start the offseason with a current list of Pats under contract:

Player Cap (in millions)
Tom Brady $21.8
Vince Wilfork $10.6
Logan Mankins $10
Jerod Mayo $5.6
Brandon Lloyd $4.5
Aaron Hernandez $4
Stephen Gostkowski $3.4
Dan Connolly $3.3
Rob Gronkowski $2.7
Nate Solder $2.3
Matthew Slater $2.3
Steve Gregory $2.2
Rob Ninkovich $2.2
Chandler Jones $1.9
Devin McCourty $1.8
Donta Hightower $1.8
Daniel Fells $1.7
Ras I. Dowling $1.4
Zolton Mesko $1.4
Kyle Love $1.1
Ryan Wendell $1
Jermaine Cunning $1
Tavon Wilson $1
Shane Vereen $1
Spencer Larsen $.9
Brandon Spikes $.9
Stevan Ridley $.8
Ryan Mallett $.8
Brandon Deaderick $.6
Marcus Cannon $.6
Rest of Roster $12 (24 players)

Total $106.5 (54 players)

Projected NFL salary cap $121.5 million. Cap space $15 million.

Cuts Cap savings

Fells $1
Larsen $.8
Deaderick $.6

I could almost see cutting Gostkowski for a savings of $2 million if we had a 4th or 5th round pick to select a big college kicker. Since we dont, Gostkowski holds on for another year.

Total Cap space to spend $17.4

Resign

Julian Edleman $1.5 million
Kyle Arrington $2 million
Danny Woodhead $1.5
Sebastian Vollmer $6.5 million

Free Agency

Kevin Ogletree $1.5 million
Derek Cox $2.5 million

DRAFT

Trade 2nd round pick to Minnesota for Percy Harvin ($2.9 million)

Based on my calculations, thus far the Pats would be $1 over the cap with (after trading their 2nd) about $2.5 still needed for draft picks. Obviously some small restructuring of existing contracts would have to take place.

1-29 Kawann Short DT - Purdue

Pats need a penetrating DT next to Wilfork to fill out the rotation with Love and Armstead.

3-91 Jonathon Cyprien S - FIU

We dont know what we have in Tavon Wilson yet. Cyprien is at least competition for him and if not we at least replace Chung.

I dont go deep enough in the draft to project 7th round picks.

Final Roster
QB Tom Brady, Ryan Mallett, Mike Kafka
RB Ridley, Vereen, Woodhead, Bolden, Demps
WR Lloyd, Harvin, Edelman, Slater, Ogletree
TE Gronkowski, Hernandez, Ballard
OL Wendell, Connolly, Mankins, Solder, Vollmer, Cannon, McDonald, Zusevics

DE Jones, Ninkovich, Cunningham, Francis, Bequette
DT Wilfork, Love, Armstead, Short (R)
ILB Spikes, Fletcher
OLB Mayo, Hightower, Rivera, Tarpinian
CB Dennard, Dowling, Arrington
Safety McCourty, Gregory, Wilson, Cyprien (R), Ebner

Specials Gostkowski, Mesko, Aiken

The hole is at CB. It might mean we have to take a CB such as Jonathan Banks or Desmond Trufant in the first round and keep Deaderick or Marcus Forston as our 4th DT.

[Sciz]

So the Pats are going for a new passing yards allowed record?
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Shut up, NBT

[cochise]

[Sciz]

[cochise]

I dont think the Pats have enough cap space to buy a solution to their secondary. I think the real solution is improvement by Jones and Hightower, a push up the middle by Kawann Short, and a healthy year out of Dowling. Not a ton of cap space and few draft picks. Its gonna take some creativity.

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[cochise]

[mcmurtry86]

Isn't the reason Harvin is available because he wants a new contract? If the Pats are trading for him, I'd think you'd have to factor in at least $7M and probably 8-9M for him.

To be honest, I see this as a worse roster than the team ended 2012 with so you'd need big improvements from some of the young players. Other than getting Jones healthy, I don't see where that improvement is coming from.

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