Jason La Canfora : Cap Casualty Season: Here Are Some Likely Big-Name Victims

[atljbo]

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Quote:Michael Turner, Falcons ($5.5 million): He is slowing down and this team will be looking for new ways to get deeper into the postseason. Could be a financial recalibration in order with teams wary to pay big bucks to older running backs these days.

Dunta Robinson, Falcons ($8 million): Was signed to be an elite corner a few years back in free agency but has been outshined by others. The Falcons have needs to fill and their cap situation will only get tighter when Matt Ryan gets paid.

Basically what we all thought..... Actuallyu ... Michael Turner will save us 6.9 instead of 5.5 of cap space since he hit that contract escalator

[Xanthri]

no worries...Robinson will take a pay cut to stay (at least I think he will)....Turner would have to take a HUGE paycut especially since he will likely get suspended for 4 games for the DUI.......

Turner Gone...
Robinson and Abraham will find a way to become cap friendly to stay on contender!

[Aftermath]

if Turner was going to get suspended it would have happened already.

Robinson just restructured and Abraham just resigned, Abe only has 2 years left and Dunta only has 3, kind of running our of room for restructure.

[Beef]

Dunta wouldn't get more than $2-$2.5M/year on any other team in the league right now. So I'll bet if we threaten to release him or ask him to reduce his pay down to $3M/yr, he'll have no choice but to take it.

We really have all the power over him at this point. It's either renegotiate and make $3M or get cut and go make less than that.

Turner is a bit different story. Some other desperate team will pay him $6M/yr for a couple more years. We won't though.

Abe can probably still go some place and make what his current contract is now too, so I doubt he renegotiates and I really doubt we release him. He's our only reliable pass rusher.

[ggp]

I have heard that Abe's contract was structured so that he could be released, this offseason, and provide the team with a cap savings of over 5 million. If that is the case, I guess he becomes a prime target for release.