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What "Cap" money do we have left?

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The "cap" is a strange animal.  The Colts have signed some big contracts but how much have each of those counted against the "cap"?   With some players leaving that should free up some money.  We all some other players or positions we would like to see added. But is the real money we have left for these signings and are 2014 draft class?

 

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It's hard to say until we know what the Costas deal looks like.  

 

We don't have the complete details of the Vontae Davis contract but we can guess based on APY that pre-Costas we had somewhere around 17 to 18 million in total cap space left.  

 

You only need 3 to 4 million to play with during the season and we don't have a first rounder and have very few draft picks anyways so I anticipate we won't need much cap space for them, maybe 2 to 3 million.

 

So conservative estimate pre-Costas we have around 10 million to work with for new contracts.  

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We have about 17m

We need to sign Nick to a deal 1yr 5.5m

DRC 1yr deal 4m and Chris Clemons 1yr 2.5m deal, and we Gud to go, sit a wait for the vet bargain shopping for depth at Nt etc....

DRC turned down a 6 year/$54 million dollar deal from the Broncos, I don't think he's coming here for $4 million. Also, we need to sign nicks to a multi year deal, like 3 years/18 million to be safe.

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It's hard to say until we know what the Costas deal looks like.  

 

We don't have the complete details of the Vontae Davis contract but we can guess based on APY that pre-Costas we had somewhere around 17 to 18 million in total cap space left.  

 

You only need 3 to 4 million to play with during the season and we don't have a first rounder and have very few draft picks anyways so I anticipate we won't need much cap space for them, maybe 2 to 3 million.

 

So conservative estimate pre-Costas we have around 10 million to work with for new contracts.  

 

I think Costa got 2 years 2.5 mil but has playing incentives to possibly get 3.5mil 

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I think Costa got 2 years 2.5 mil but has playing incentives to possibly get 3.5mil 

 

2.7 I read.  But yeah after that we're at around 15 to 16 million in cap space conservative estimate.  Rookies and in season buffer take out 5 million.  Leaves about 10 million to play with still.

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2.7 I read.  But yeah after that we're at around 15 to 16 million in cap space conservative estimate.  Rookies and in season buffer take out 5 million.  Leaves about 10 million to play with still.

 

I read somewhere that the cap space they say we started off with did not include what was needed for the Rookies.  Not sure though.... I don't see why they would still be talking with Alex Mack if they only have 10 mil to play with...

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I found this stating this is the cap space that we have.

 

Indianapolis Colts general manager Ryan Grigson started the day with roughly $40 million in cap space. He used half of that $40 mill on today's players, with 1/4th of it on Vontae Davis alone. The Colts have roughly $17-$18 million in cap space left to work with. This is excluding money for draft picks, rookie free agents, IRed players, etc

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I found this stating this is the cap space that we have.

 

Indianapolis Colts general manager Ryan Grigson started the day with roughly $40 million in cap space. He used half of that $40 mill on today's players, with 1/4th of it on Vontae Davis alone. The Colts have roughly $17-$18 million in cap space left to work with. This is excluding money for draft picks, rookie free agents, IRed players, etc

 

If it does exclude money needed for draft picks it makes it a little better but not much.  We shouldn't be spending much on draft picks this year with no first rounder and I believe no 4th rounder.  

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If it does exclude money needed for draft picks it makes it a little better but not much.  We shouldn't be spending much on draft picks this year with no first rounder and I believe no 4th rounder.  

 

Right so maybe we could sign Nicks for 4yrs $25 mil and alex 3yr 30 or somewhere in that range.

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Right so maybe we could sign Nicks for 4yrs $25 mil and alex 3yr 30 or somewhere in that range.

 

I don't think we'll be signing Nicks to a long term deal.  This is gonna be a prove it deal.

 

Nicks wants to prove he's a true #1 so he can chase the big money next year.  (I'm guessing he wants to chase down 10 million dollar APY deal)  

 

And we of course arn't going to offer him true #1 money. 

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DRC turned down a 6 year/$54 million dollar deal from the Broncos, I don't think he's coming here for $4 million. Also, we need to sign nicks to a multi year deal, like 3 years/18 million to be safe.

DRC I don't think he is gonna get that kind of money so when realizes that might have to do another 1 yr deal for 4-6m per u never know if he comes for that price , and performs we cut toler next yer and pay DRC 6.5m per only 2m more than we are giving toler, but I was just thinking positive Lol
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Right so maybe we could sign Nicks for 4yrs $25 mil and alex 3yr 30 or somewhere in that range.

we don't need nicks to be honest 1yr prove it deal or Tell him to get the stepping, we can not keep paying every guy, have to trust and develop the ones we have , we are not in b as shape at wr I rather draft one in the second were we can hold on to and is cheap than keep shelling out money for these injured guys,
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Right so maybe we could sign Nicks for 4yrs $25 mil and alex 3yr 30 or somewhere in that range.

we don't need nicks to be honest 1yr prove it deal or Tell him to get the stepping, we can not keep paying every guy, have to trust and develop the ones we have , we are not in b as shape at wr I rather draft one in the second were we can hold on to and is cheap than keep shelling out money for these injured guys,
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we don't need nicks to be honest 1yr prove it deal or Tell him to get the stepping, we can not keep paying every guy, have to trust and develop the ones we have , we are not in b as shape at wr I rather draft one in the second were we can hold on to and is cheap than keep shelling out money for these injured guys,

 

I say we do, lets say that Reggie does down again then what???? In the same boat we was last year.

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