Thread: Off Season Notes - 2017

The Broncos don’t have quite as much salary cap space as was thought.

The NFLPA updated its salary cap report and it shows the Broncos have $16.148 million left in cap space, a $4.5 million drop from the $20.6 million that was listed after Denver’s most recent free agent signings.

Denver’s loss in salary cap space is due to a repayment of an NFL loan that teams were allowed to take in 2011 and 2012. The Broncos took the maximum loan, $3 million in 2011 and $1.5 million in 2012. It’s now time for that loan to be repaid in regards to the salary cap. Those loans came during the uncapped year following the 2011 NFL lockout and the adjustment to the new collective bargaining agreement in the year that followed.

More than half of the NFL teams took out loans during that time. Some took the salary cap hit before the 2017 repayment deadline. The Broncos were one of several teams, including the Patriots, Cowboys, and Saints, to see the loan repayment on their salary cap this spring.

The Broncos have signed five free agents this offseason – guard Ronald Leary, tackle Menelik Watson, defensive linemen Domata Peko and Zach Kerr and outside linebacker Kasim Edebali. They also restructured tackle Donald Stephenson’s contract. Denver will likely need at least $7-10 million to pay their draft picks, leaving it a little less than $10 million in cap space to spend on late free agency moves or trade additions.

The Broncos’ $16.148 million in cap space currently ranks 17th, per the NFLPA’s most recent records.

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/28...17-salary-cap/

I don't think that drop in money necessarily means we can't sign a Romo or a FA OT, etc. They just have to be creative with the cash, small salary, larger bonus, etc, to spread the cap hit. Keeping in mind that all money paid immediately by way of bonus is spread across the contract and is obviously guaranteed I can easily see a player being ok with making a few million less in salary if it's made up in bonus.

Originally Posted by Davii

I don't think that drop in money necessarily means we can't sign a Romo or a FA OT, etc. They just have to be creative with the cash, small salary, larger bonus, etc, to spread the cap hit. Keeping in mind that all money paid immediately by way of bonus is spread across the contract and is obviously guaranteed I can easily see a player being ok with making a few million less in salary if it's made up in bonus.

if they need cap space, they can also free it up by re-structuring somebody like demaryius thomas. . .

Originally Posted by dogfish

if they need cap space, they can also free it up by re-structuring somebody like demaryius thomas. . .

Yeah, both him and Talib have a clause in their contracts that I think could free up about ten mil in cap space

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

Yeah, both him and Talib have a clause in their contracts that I think could free up about ten mil in cap space

Can't be Talib. Most of his guaranteed money has been paid already, so the only way to free up any space for him would be to extend him, and I don't think we're doing that.

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

Yeah, both him and Talib have a clause in their contracts that I think could free up about ten mil in cap space

i don't know the details. . . but on the Fan yesterday, they were saying we could free up close to 9 mil just by re-structuring DT. . . i take anything they say with a grain of salt without researching it, but i would suffice it to say that we can free up a decent chunk of space if we need it. . . doesn't look like we're going to anyway, IMO. . . things can change, but it looks like jerruh is going to squat on romo until he retires and takes a job in broadcasting. . . maybe we can still make a trade for a vet left tackle at some point, but i believe all those contracts would fit under our current cap. . .

PHOENIX — There's far more right than wrong with the Broncos' defense. Vance Joseph knows that.

The team's new head coach inherits a unit that is one of the best pass defenses in NFL history, leading the league in consecutive seasons against the pass — and doing so when the aerial game is more prominent than ever before.

But two things went askew last year: the Broncos' work against the run and their performance on the first series of games. This is where their potential for improvement lies — and where Joseph believes he can take an elite defense to new heights.

As Joseph scrutinized last season's game film, he realized the two shortcomings were connected — not by personnel, but by tactics and alignment.

"We've got to help those guys with different looks," Joseph said at the NFL Annual Meeting on Tuesday morning. "When you play a certain front all the time, and an offensive football team has a chance to practice all week, and they show up on Sundays and it looks the same, then they're going to move the ball on you."

rest - http://www.denverbroncos.com/news-an...f-2c512e56087d

I am trying to give this guy a chance but it is a bit ballsy for the guy who oversaw the 30th ranked defense to say we just need to scheme better than the hall of fame defensive guru to improve this defense.

Originally Posted by Rick

I am trying to give this guy a chance but it is a bit ballsy for the guy who oversaw the 30th ranked defense to say we just need to scheme better than the hall of fame defensive guru to improve this defense.

We'll see, huh? There's part of me that thinks this team is going to be a 5-11 trainwreck this year, the objective part, but the rock-out-****-out part says to can it and believe.

Mr. Rock-out notes that the Broncos were probably the 3d-5th best team in the AFC last year, all things considered. The starting QB has a year of reps. The line has to improve. The offense has to improve.

We said everything had to improve last year. It didn't. I'm optimistic about the line, but there is no reason to think that any one player 'has' to improve, let alone an entire unit.

Originally Posted by Rick

I am trying to give this guy a chance but it is a bit ballsy for the guy who oversaw the 30th ranked defense to say we just need to scheme better than the hall of fame defensive guru to improve this defense.

well, it takes a lot of balls to be the kind of leader of men this guy is. . .

I'm starting to be scared that he's an idiot. Hawgdriver might have been right.

Originally Posted by Von Kinger

I'm starting to be scared that he's an idiot. Hawgdriver might have been right.

Yeah I mean there's no doubt either you're dumb or you're an ******* for calling out the guy that you've previously referred to as your mentor and one of the most influential people in your football life. Charismatic people are scary because you can Overlook a bunch of flaws because they get you hyped up when you're in the room with them. That was my concern the entire time during this process was that everybody's excited about Joseph because he's charismatic and remind them of Mike Tomlin and all I knew was that on paper Kyle Shanahan had several very good offensive units including this one which was record-setting. He made a bad Browns offense look a decent and he got Griffin the nFC Rookie of the Year award

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Mr. Rock-out notes that the Broncos were probably the 3d-5th best team in the AFC last year, all things considered. The starting QB has a year of reps. The line has to improve. The offense has to improve.

I said that last year...it didn't.