Basically right now we have about 60million in cap space in the starting lineup on each side of the ball. I used Raji's last year cap number for NT so that could fluctuate depending on whether Raji sticks around for a reasonable deal.

Now where can we afford to upgrade that won't leave us eating a good size chunk of cap space on somebody not playing. Obviously LT since Bahktiari is not a big contract, I wouldn't expect anything at C with the options we have. Lang? I don't think he is a weakness, but would Taylor or Tretter improve enough to afford to let Lang creating a net gain of about 4-5million to improve another spot? Otherwise only spots financially would really be TE and/or 3rd WR.


Defensively besides not having much invested at ILB, the only position where we could clear some cap space would be Peppers. I don't feel safe at that spot with what we have without Peppers. I don't think we are in tight enough position cap wise to need a restructure from Matthews or Rodgers as this time.

Nelson 8.3M
Cobb 9.1M
Bahktiari 1.8M
Sitton 6.85M
Linsley 645K
Lang 6.1M
Bulaga 5.4M
R.Rodgers 740K

A.Rodgers 19.25M
Lacy 1M
3rd WR/FB @1


Shields 12M Randall/Rollins
Peppers 10.5M
Daniels 7.4M
Raji 1.75M
Guion @3.75M
Matthes 13.75M
Randall/Rollins 1.75M
Bunett 5.9M
Ryan 640K
Barrington 680K
Ha-Ha 2.2M

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I cheated and used Spotrac  and kind of surprised Wide Receiver is top, although it shouldn't have been a surprise.

Inside Linebacker is ranked quite high even though we have an Outside Linebacker playing (out of position in my opinion) Inside.

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To be honest I did not know we spend so much on Lang. It is odd to see a team pay more for guards than Tackles.

Bulk of that number is from that "out of position" backer. While I might agree that his natural position is outside, he is quite effective inside that covers for a failing to properly staff that position with better options. That is a player personnel issue.

In other words... moving Matthews inside and replacing him with Neal/rotation > than any other option to play inside from the inside backer options.

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