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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 495588" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">I always thought I didn’t/don’t know enough about the inner workings of the front office to know, but I do assume losing McKenzie and Dorsey has to hurt at least a little. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">Regarding McKenzie I don’t think we’ll know how good or bad he is as GM until the end of the 2015 season. He inherited the worst of three worlds: A roster in need of an overhaul, premium picks traded away by his predecessor (last year’s first rounder and this year’s second), and an inherited salary cap hell. As HardRightEdge noted, he starts next season will a clean slate – about $50M in cap space and only 2014 fifth round and 2015 seventh round picks missing. Those picks were the price for Flynn and what if all the Packers fans who thought Flynn was worth a first rounder were right? That’s a pretty cheap price to find out and if Flynn has any integrity he should feel like he has something to prove. Anyway, IMO we won’t see “the real” McKenzie as GM until next year and by the end of the 2015 season it should be clear whether or not the Raiders are headed in the right direction. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The Raiders are obviously at the extreme of teams with dead money on their salary caps this season. While I usually wouldn’t use the most extreme example to make a point I do think the contrast between the Raiders and Packers is instructive. As the linked article says, the Raiders have about $45M of dead money this year and according to Silverstein’s April 3rd jsonline article their cap is </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">$127.2M. Silverstein also notes that a total of 15 players account for the Packers’ 2013 dead money: $959,236. And the Packers’ cap number is higher – over $131M. That’s about 35% in dead money vs. about seven tenths of one percent. And almost all of the $959K dead money is from the “huge” UFA mistake Thompson made last year: The dead money from Saturday’s contract is $825K. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">Silverstein’s article lists the “more notorious” charges on the Packers cap in recent years. Since Thompson became GM, only the contracts of 7 players contracts have cost the Packers more than a $1M cap hit. The worst hit was from Cletidus Hunt who Thompson inherited and who reached an injury settlement. Another was Nick Collins who was anything but a mistake by Thompson. We go ‘round and ‘round about Thompson’s hesitation in using UFA. But the dead money hitting the Packers cap every season during his tenure as GM goes in the positive column of evaluating his job as GM. </span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/green-bay-packers-count-little-dead-money-toward-cap-ed9dj89-201373111.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/green-bay-packers-count-little-dead-money-toward-cap-ed9dj89-201373111.html</span></u></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 495588, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Georgia] [/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]I always thought I didn’t/don’t know enough about the inner workings of the front office to know, but I do assume losing McKenzie and Dorsey has to hurt at least a little. [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]Regarding McKenzie I don’t think we’ll know how good or bad he is as GM until the end of the 2015 season. He inherited the worst of three worlds: A roster in need of an overhaul, premium picks traded away by his predecessor (last year’s first rounder and this year’s second), and an inherited salary cap hell. As HardRightEdge noted, he starts next season will a clean slate – about $50M in cap space and only 2014 fifth round and 2015 seventh round picks missing. Those picks were the price for Flynn and what if all the Packers fans who thought Flynn was worth a first rounder were right? That’s a pretty cheap price to find out and if Flynn has any integrity he should feel like he has something to prove. Anyway, IMO we won’t see “the real” McKenzie as GM until next year and by the end of the 2015 season it should be clear whether or not the Raiders are headed in the right direction. [/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]The Raiders are obviously at the extreme of teams with dead money on their salary caps this season. While I usually wouldn’t use the most extreme example to make a point I do think the contrast between the Raiders and Packers is instructive. As the linked article says, the Raiders have about $45M of dead money this year and according to Silverstein’s April 3rd jsonline article their cap is [/FONT][FONT=Arial]$127.2M. Silverstein also notes that a total of 15 players account for the Packers’ 2013 dead money: $959,236. And the Packers’ cap number is higher – over $131M. That’s about 35% in dead money vs. about seven tenths of one percent. And almost all of the $959K dead money is from the “huge” UFA mistake Thompson made last year: The dead money from Saturday’s contract is $825K. [/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]Silverstein’s article lists the “more notorious” charges on the Packers cap in recent years. Since Thompson became GM, only the contracts of 7 players contracts have cost the Packers more than a $1M cap hit. The worst hit was from Cletidus Hunt who Thompson inherited and who reached an injury settlement. Another was Nick Collins who was anything but a mistake by Thompson. We go ‘round and ‘round about Thompson’s hesitation in using UFA. But the dead money hitting the Packers cap every season during his tenure as GM goes in the positive column of evaluating his job as GM. [/COLOR][/FONT] [URL='http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/green-bay-packers-count-little-dead-money-toward-cap-ed9dj89-201373111.html'][U][COLOR=#0000ff]http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/green-bay-packers-count-little-dead-money-toward-cap-ed9dj89-201373111.html[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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