Cards save $14 million with Palmer retirement

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The #AZCardinals save $14 million in cap space with Carson Palmer's retirement.

Mike Jurecki‏Verified [email protected]
Now that it’s official with Carson Palmer announcing his retirement. The Cardinals will save $14.5M in cap space in 2018, $6.67M will be allotted dead money counting against the cap this year.

 

2/3's of the way to affording a game manager like Kirk Cousins! Yeah!!!

 

I m sure iupati will be cut too, and AD as well
Curious to know how our cap would be before free agency starts

 

Start with 17,

add 14 for Carson,

add 6 million for Iupati.

3.5 million for AD

Veldheer 6.9 million is a possibility

Bucannon 5th year option is set at 8 million which I think the team can reduce with a new contract

Mauro 2.8 million is a possibility

Dawson 3.5 million they can probably get a cheaper kicker

Bethea 3.5 million, old and injured, could be a possibility

There are other contracts they can play with too. I think they get to at least 45 million

 

Thank u for the numbers
Having 40mil is huge, hope they dont waste big part of them signing Cousins

 

Anyway to lure Jimmy Garoppolo away from signing with the 9ers???

 

No he would be tagged

 

Yeah. Was just reading about this. Potentially a great grab by the Niners. Grrr.

49ers will make every effort to keep Jimmy Garoppolo

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21943880/san-francisco-49ers-try-keep-jimmy-garoppolo-long-term

 

Nice. I think we'll have a good amount of money to work with. Now the question is, who to target? I think Veldheer is probably gone, so at least an OT and then we need some receivers. I'm still a fan of trying to bring in a guy like Terrelle Pryor on the cheap along with a couple of other vets to all compete. And draft a few guys. What we do on a higher value level depends on if Fitz retires, IMO.

 

Maybe you haven’t watched Pryor. IMO, he stinks.

 

Veldheer is reporting that he wants to play next year & he isn't having any thoughts of retiring.

That doesn't mean the Cards won't cut him to save cap space or try to re-work his deal.

 

I watched him play pretty heavily with the Browns and Redskins. He's pretty decent for what the price should be and fills a need as a guy with speed and size. He's better than anything we have on our roster right now aside from Fitz (Chad Williams and JJ Nelson). He could compete for #2 or settle in as the #3.

 

Palmers net will be about $8mill due to his dead cap space.

 

Pryor has skillet hands and runs lazy routes. He has one of the highest drop % in the league.

 

Veldheer said today he wants to return