NFL: Elvis Dumervil Cut by Bronco's....

[Beef]

Dumervil was slotted to make $12M this year and Denver told him it was "Out of wack, too high".

They made him an offer of about $7.5M or he would be cut. He accepted the offer initially, reluctantly, but then apparently declined it today (by not turning in the paperwork by the deadline). I think we could get him for about $9M/year (about a $6M cap hit this year).

I'm not sure if he would fit here because he's definitely a true 3-4 OLB pass rusher and a liability against the run. He's only 5'11", but 260 lbs and runs a 4.5. 11 sacks and 6 FF's last year. 9.5 sacks the year before, and 17 sacks the year before that. Dude knows how to get to the QB, period.

The ONLY way I see this even being possible is if Matt does a new cap friendly contract and we don't sign Grimes.

We're going to be about $8M under the cap after SJax's numbers get put in. We need about $3.5M for rookies and about $2.5M more for the remainder of our FA's we need to re-sign still. So Matt would have to do a new contract that reduces his cap hit from $12M to $8M, which I think is very possible. That would give us $6M of cap room after EVERYTHING else being done (except Grimes, who would be bye bye).

Just a thought.