ESPN: NFC South payrolls

[Gazi]

Then, there are the Carolina Panthers, who are in a league of their own. They are right at $110 million. But more than $30 million of that is “dead money’’, which counts for players no longer on the team. If you factored in only the guys on Carolina’s roster, the Panthers would have a lower figure than the Buccaneers.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id/16006/looking-at-nfc-south-payrolls

[Gazi]

I am not sure if this means we're the cheapest or dumbest team in the NFL?

[Raskle]

Both maybe?

[Davidson Deac II]

I am not sure if this means we're the cheapest or dumbest team in the NFL?

Dumbest.

JR ain't cheap despite what others think, but we tend to make some very bad management decisions.

[Urrymonster]

I am not sure if this means we're the cheapest or dumbest team in the NFL?

To not spend out our ass?

I’m also looking at the two highest figures around the league. Washington leads at $192.2 million and Dallas is next at $167.3 million. Gee, they’re not really thriving, which makes me wonder if you have to spend huge money to succeed.

I am willing to bet many other teams have dead money as well, so technically everyone's totals are actually lower that what he has listed. So whilst he factors that we have a fair bit, I am certainly Tampa's will take them even lower.

Regardless does it feel nice not to have that $30million around our necks? I mean, seriously, which player that we cut was worth any of that?

[CatMan72]

Both maybe?

LOVE the sig, we need to have bumper stickers made up.

[Raskle]

LOVE the sig, we need to have bumper stickers made up.

Ooops.. forgot to give the due props for the sig! Second City Panther made it, and I agree with your suggestion!

[PanthaSan]

Hey now, don't get ahead of yoyurselves. I think the proper procedure is to have a poll and then a petition and so forth and so forth....

[rmoneyg35]

So if it wasn't for the "dead money" then we would probably have the lowest salary in the NFL? Does the "dead money" go away after this season? I assume that the money is from cutting all of the vets, Jake I believe is worth around 12 million of that "dead money". I am looking forward for a big FA signing next year, unless we plan on saving that cap room for another year. Hopefully the cap will be back and there will be a cap on draft picks so we won't have to worry about having a bunch of money invested on an unproven player.

[panthers55]

To not spend out our ass?

I am willing to bet many other teams have dead money as well, so technically everyone's totals are actually lower that what he has listed. So whilst he factors that we have a fair bit, I am certainly Tampa's will take them even lower.

Regardless does it feel nice not to have that $30million around our necks? I mean, seriously, which player that we cut was worth any of that?

Many of the players cut were paid anyway and were in the last year of the contract so we pissed away much of the money. We didn't save much at all and they wouldn't have counted against our cap next year anyway. Count Jake, Lewis, and Hoover and Kemo in that category. Then you have the stupid which is signing Diggs to a three year extension in January and then cutting him 3 months later.

Those veteran cuts for the most part were poorly thought out and as hindsight has shown, much more problematic than most foks believed.

As for other teams having dead money, they all have some but 30 million??? Maybe Washington who cut a bunch of players to make up for blunders in year's past under a different regime but smart teams like New England for example. Not even close I bet.

[brandon_87]

I am not sure if this means we're the cheapest or dumbest team in the NFL?

Both by far

[Mr. Scot]

Actually, neither.

The team dumped some bad contracts in a year when they could do it without having to worry about the cap hit.

Yeah, this year sucks, but the overall result will be better long term.

[panthers55]

Actually, neither.

The team dumped some bad contracts in a year when they could do it without having to worry about the cap hit.

Yeah, this year sucks, but the overall result will be better long term.

What bad contract did they dump besides Johnson?? When they didn't exercise the option bonus on Lewis, for example, which everyone agreed wouldn't happen, his contract reverted to a 1 year deals which would have expired after 2010. He was due 5 million but when you factor what is cost to replace him for the Tyler tender of 1.1 million who was cut and Landri's 500,000 the difference was roughly 3.4 million which is hardly a bad contract. Given how bad the DTs have been that seems a reasonable deal.

The reality is this year didn't have to suck for us to be better down the road.

[frash.exe]

i mean they could've avoided dumping delhomme's 12 million dollar salary last offseason just by not extending him in 09 after throwing 5 picks against the cardinals since he was due to be a free agent last offseason anyway.