Alright brehs, its been a few days since the Bucs celebrated the NFC Title on the Frozen Tundra. And the NFC Championship keeps being the road block for a 2nd title in the Rodgers era. We shoulda won that damn game and talking about how the Chiefs would embarass Mike Pettine's defensive calls.
Oh well.
Can the Packers improve? We still have the MVP. One of the best WRs in the game. Some foundational pieces on defense and a solid left side of the offensive line.
However, we may not be able to keep our best RB. One of the best Cs in the NFL is a free agent. Our 2nd best CB who got embarrassed in the NFCCG is a free agent as well.
With the salary cap being a big unknown, many Packers fans are envisioning the worst case scenario of the cap going down to $175-$180M from its current $198M. However, many in the league are expecting a drop to $190-$195M which would be a bit more manageable.
If the cap is at $178M, we are currently $41M over
IF the cap settles in at $195M, we'd be $24M over. Though in that scenario we could create $30M in room.
Salary Cap Cheat Sheet. "How much will we save if..."
So, You can get cap savings of $56.45M by doing the following:
Cut Lowry ($3.3M)
Cut Wagner ($4.25M)
Cut Kirksey ($5.6M)
Cut/Trade Preston ($8M)
Restructure Z ($7.4M)
Restructure Aaron ($13.6M)
Restructure DBak ($8.3M)
Extend Davante ($6M)
We could keep Preston of course and restructure his deal. But he was invisible for like 70% of the season. I'd rather Gary get those snaps and draft another edge rusher or sign one on the cheap.
Fukk Kirksey
Undrafted ILBs in Barnes and Martin played much better than him. Barnes really came on in the 2nd half of the season. So, ILB isn't as dire as we thought. I'd still hop on finding a blue chip prospect who runs. Seeing how TB's LBs just fly around the field makes me jealous. We need team speed at LB.
We also need speed at WR. Besides MVS, no one else can get deep. Davante can cause of his magnificent route running. But we need more speed inside the slot.
Our free agents:
Unrestricted Free Agents (14)
To be a UFA, a player must have four or more accrued seasons. These players are free to sign with any team as of the start of the 2021 league year at 4:00 PM Eastern on March 17. They may also begin negotiating contracts with any team during the so-called “legal tampering” period, which begins two days earlier on March 15.
The gain or loss of unrestricted free agents in the 2021 offseason will determine what compensatory draft picks will be assigned for the 2022 NFL Draft.
Here is the list of the Packers’ 14 unrestricted free agents heading into the 2021 offseason:
A restricted free agent has exactly three accrued seasons of NFL experience. Teams may submit a qualifying contract tender to RFAs before the start of the league year; the name of the tender specifies what type of draft pick another team must send to the previous team as compensation if signing an RFA, with the options being first-round, second-round, or “original-round” tenders. Each tender is equivalent to a one-year contract worth a different base salary, decreasing as the value of the draft pick compensation decreases. The value of the tenders will be finalized when the salary cap is finalized for 2021; with the cap likely to decrease, the 2021 values will likely be a bit lower than those for 2020 shown below
First-round: $4.873 million
Second-round: $3.422 million
Original round: $2.24 million
Players who receive a tender are allowed to negotiate contracts with other teams and if they come to an agreement, they may sign an offer sheet, which is effectively a proposed contract. The Packers would then have the opportunity to match that offer sheet or allow the player to sign with the other team; Green Bay would then receive the draft pick compensation from that team as specified by the type of tender he had received.
Five of the Packers’ six RFAs this year were not drafted, which would mean that the original-round tender only gives the team the right to match an offer sheet the player receives from another team; Green Bay would not receive any draft compensation if they chose not to match offer sheets for those players.
To fall into this group, players must have fewer than three accrued seasons of experience. The Packers may extend to any of these players a qualifying tender at the league minimum salary for that player’s experience level. If the team does so, it retains sole negotiating rights with the player moving forward. The two sides could still work on a longer-term contract extension once that tender is in place, or the player can sign the tender and play under the one-year contract.
We will have a new DC. All I care about is a defense that can go beyond vanilla and actually keep good to great QBs off balance. For a decade we have not been able to thwart great QBs. Even with talented teams.
Going into the draft, our biggest needs are CB, DL, OT, Slot WR with speed, EDGE RUSHER, ILB, KR/PR, P...
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Oh well.
Can the Packers improve? We still have the MVP. One of the best WRs in the game. Some foundational pieces on defense and a solid left side of the offensive line.
However, we may not be able to keep our best RB. One of the best Cs in the NFL is a free agent. Our 2nd best CB who got embarrassed in the NFCCG is a free agent as well.
With the salary cap being a big unknown, many Packers fans are envisioning the worst case scenario of the cap going down to $175-$180M from its current $198M. However, many in the league are expecting a drop to $190-$195M which would be a bit more manageable.
If the cap is at $178M, we are currently $41M over
IF the cap settles in at $195M, we'd be $24M over. Though in that scenario we could create $30M in room.
Salary Cap Cheat Sheet. "How much will we save if..."
So, You can get cap savings of $56.45M by doing the following:
Cut Lowry ($3.3M)
Cut Wagner ($4.25M)
Cut Kirksey ($5.6M)
Cut/Trade Preston ($8M)
Restructure Z ($7.4M)
Restructure Aaron ($13.6M)
Restructure DBak ($8.3M)
Extend Davante ($6M)
We could keep Preston of course and restructure his deal. But he was invisible for like 70% of the season. I'd rather Gary get those snaps and draft another edge rusher or sign one on the cheap.
Fukk Kirksey
Undrafted ILBs in Barnes and Martin played much better than him. Barnes really came on in the 2nd half of the season. So, ILB isn't as dire as we thought. I'd still hop on finding a blue chip prospect who runs. Seeing how TB's LBs just fly around the field makes me jealous. We need team speed at LB.We also need speed at WR. Besides MVS, no one else can get deep. Davante can cause of his magnificent route running. But we need more speed inside the slot.
Our free agents:
Unrestricted Free Agents (14)
To be a UFA, a player must have four or more accrued seasons. These players are free to sign with any team as of the start of the 2021 league year at 4:00 PM Eastern on March 17. They may also begin negotiating contracts with any team during the so-called “legal tampering” period, which begins two days earlier on March 15.
The gain or loss of unrestricted free agents in the 2021 offseason will determine what compensatory draft picks will be assigned for the 2022 NFL Draft.
Here is the list of the Packers’ 14 unrestricted free agents heading into the 2021 offseason:
- DL Montravius Adams
- WR Tavon Austin
- ILB James Burgess
- RB Tyler Ervin
- DL Damon Harrison
- RB Aaron Jones
- CB Kevin King
- TE Marcedes Lewis
- C Corey Linsley
- S Will Redmond
- G Lane Taylor
- OT Jared Veldheer
- RB Jamaal Williams
- DL Billy Winn
A restricted free agent has exactly three accrued seasons of NFL experience. Teams may submit a qualifying contract tender to RFAs before the start of the league year; the name of the tender specifies what type of draft pick another team must send to the previous team as compensation if signing an RFA, with the options being first-round, second-round, or “original-round” tenders. Each tender is equivalent to a one-year contract worth a different base salary, decreasing as the value of the draft pick compensation decreases. The value of the tenders will be finalized when the salary cap is finalized for 2021; with the cap likely to decrease, the 2021 values will likely be a bit lower than those for 2020 shown below
First-round: $4.873 million
Second-round: $3.422 million
Original round: $2.24 million
Players who receive a tender are allowed to negotiate contracts with other teams and if they come to an agreement, they may sign an offer sheet, which is effectively a proposed contract. The Packers would then have the opportunity to match that offer sheet or allow the player to sign with the other team; Green Bay would then receive the draft pick compensation from that team as specified by the type of tender he had received.
Five of the Packers’ six RFAs this year were not drafted, which would mean that the original-round tender only gives the team the right to match an offer sheet the player receives from another team; Green Bay would not receive any draft compensation if they chose not to match offer sheets for those players.
- QB Tim Boyle (undrafted)
- S Raven Greene (undrafted)
- DL Tyler Lancaster (undrafted)
- CB Parry Nickerson (6th round pick)
- CB Chandon Sullivan (undrafted)
- TE Robert Tonyan (undrafted)
To fall into this group, players must have fewer than three accrued seasons of experience. The Packers may extend to any of these players a qualifying tender at the league minimum salary for that player’s experience level. If the team does so, it retains sole negotiating rights with the player moving forward. The two sides could still work on a longer-term contract extension once that tender is in place, or the player can sign the tender and play under the one-year contract.
- CB Kabion Ento
- WR Allen Lazard
- OT Yosh Nijman
- OLB Randy Ramsey
- WR Malik Taylor
We will have a new DC. All I care about is a defense that can go beyond vanilla and actually keep good to great QBs off balance. For a decade we have not been able to thwart great QBs. Even with talented teams.
Going into the draft, our biggest needs are CB, DL, OT, Slot WR with speed, EDGE RUSHER, ILB, KR/PR, P...
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@Upshall
@Darealtwo1
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@Only On Camera
@MushroomX
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@Abuchunky
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Honestly its going to be hard to digest all this pre-offseason stuff, mainly because:
