After the firing of general manager Mark Dominik and head coach Greg Schiano, the Buccaneers are about to embark on the beginning of the 2014 offseason. PewterReport.com breaks down the team’s free agents and salary cap room and previews what’s ahead for Tampa Bay. https://www.pewterreport.com/index.php?option=com_k2&Itemid=20&view=item&layout=item&id=9540
I got as far as reading "Heading into 2014, there are no Tampa Bay players that have any guaranteed money, which would become dead salary cap dollars should the team elect to make any roster cuts. " during the suck up to Dom section of the article and quit.Goldson had $9 million in guaranteed salary left on the bookNicks, thanks to the new reworked deal Dom give him after the injury, has over $7 million left which is more than his base salary so there wouldn't be any savings for cutting him as is claimed in the article. Any roster bonus given after the first preseason game of the year is treated as a signing bonus and prorated over the life of the deal, example Nicks Dec 2012 bonus.Vincent Jackson, see above with Nicks.Cutting Penn would still result in some dead cap space thanks to the $2 million signing bonus he got in 2010.It's not going to happen but if we were to dump McCoy he still has $5 million left on the books due to his original signing bonus and the 2011 option bonus.There are quite a few players with guaranteed money which would become dead salary cap dollars if they were to be cut for whatever reason. http://www.bucsnation.com/2013/7/12/4518132/buccaneers-salary-cap-2014-problems-could-lead-bucs-down-the-path-of I tend to agree more with their take on our cap situation than the "everything's great, Dom did a wonderful job" way of looking at it.
