Originally posted by Gore_21:
Originally posted by NCommand:
Good list. Money REALLY has to have an effect on the 53 now which is why some of the ones you listed, have a much better chance of making it this year vs. the past (bolded). As an example, if we kept Snyder, his salary is $1.3M which is the cost of keeping Marcus Martin, Ryan Seymour and Kenneth Acker. The same applies to guys like Dahl, Ventrone and Spillman. Expensive for just STers! Right now, McCray is our #1 gunner this preseason so will he make it over Spillman and then provide real backup SS skills? Okoye over Dobbs...stuff like that. Too bad Johnson's contract is 1/4 the size of Gabbert's. Gabbert may rework his contract though if he makes it. Or cutting him will be worth the $2.5M+ to keep Johnson and have him sign a 3-year cheap backup deal. All sorts of factors now with big contracts coming up including Crabtree.
I agree we can save a lot of money with those moves. It's a fine line though as we found out in 2012 with ST of getting rid of too many ST only guys. I think I'd keep Osgood and possibly 1 of Spillman/Ventrone plus adding Borland as a st ace hopeful. As for the other moves I think Dobbs is gone, I think Snyder should be gone, would be nice to restructure Gabbert if he is the #2 but probably would have happened already. Like you said with the extension of Crabtree, Boone or Iupati, Culliver, etc we could use all the money we can get. I honestly wish we would re-structure Gore and possibly add another year to help re-sign those guys. I think Gore would have gladly done that not sure why we didn't ask.
Yeah, I still have Osgood, Morris and McCray would be my key gunners (McCray may not be active right away) and no doubt, Borland is going to be a Ventrone-like beast. When and if they keep and activate a guy like Okoye, he could help block kicks and wedge-bust on coverage units. Lots of toys still to play with. Last year the gunners were Osgood and Spillman/Morris. I remember when Baalke said he was happy b/c we didn't even have to ask Gore to restructure and that he was off limits. Buuuut...his restructure/extension for one more year could literally pay for so much. I agree. All the other key players have restructured their contracts...why not our "heart?"