Oakland has released defensive tackle Antonio Smith, who was slated to make $4 million this season. Smith started 16 games for the Raiders last season, notching 3 sacks and 18 tackles. The timing of the release seems to indicate the release is more about the player performance vs cost ratio than anything else. Normally when a […]
With so much Antonio Brown news today and so many questions about how things work on the salary cap I decided to throw together a quick post on the topic that will hopefully answer the questions I have been getting. So lets take a look. What is the dead money and cap savings is Brown […]
Antonio Brown finished this season with 129 catches for 1698 yards and 13 receiving touchdowns. He led the league in catches and yards, while his catches are the second most all-time and his yards are sixth. Over the last ten years, only two other receivers under 6-foot tall have had seasons like this: Marvin Harrison […]
[adsenseyu1] Rich Cimini of ESPN NY had this tidbit in his Sunday Notes If you’re betting on Santonio Holmes‘ return, the smart money says he will miss the entire preseason as he continues to rehab his surgically repaired foot. So when will he come back? Holmes is such a mercurial personality that people close to the […]
[adsenseyu1] There seemed to be a bit of confusion today in Jetsland over an article Manish Mehta wrote in which he stated that if the Jets were to consider using the Franchise tag on Antonio Cromartie in 2015 that it would cost the team $17.74 million dollars. Some people I know felt that couldn’t be […]
Free agency in the NFL is always filled with fool’s gold. Sometimes a team strikes real gold, but It’s well established that many high profile free agent signings don’t live up to the billing of their contract. Some of these signings also have long lasting effects via the compensatory draft pick system. As the league […]
I had a number of requests to look at the Raiders salary cap and contract decisions and since I find the Raiders a pretty fascinating team and this is an ultra slow time for contract news it seems like a good topic. For the second year in a row the Raiders were one of the […]