Cap Hit Breakdown - Who's eating all the Pie?

Before anyone thinks that I can do work like this, I want to say no way. This came from a very good poster on another site and he told me I could post this here. Some of you know the poster his user name is seeters and I want to take this time to thank him for letting me steal his work.


First, a look at how the position groups and open space compare with each other: (Numbers are in millions)

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...9_image001.gif Followed by breakdowns within the position groups.... http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...B_image001.gif (Matt Blanchard does not count against the cap)




http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...B_image001.gif http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...R_image001.gif http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7.../TEImge001.gif http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...L_image001.gif http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...L_image001.gif http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...LBImage001.gif http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...B_image001.gif http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...T_image001.gif http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...ADImage001.gif http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...enImage001.gif




In conclusion.... We need more PIE !!!!

Lol @ dickfingers Davis for TE chart.

Yea that was there nickname for him on that site. I think I fit him just right.

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Originally Posted by short faced bear

Lol @ dickfingers Davis for TE chart.

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Here is a comparison of the Bears to the Packers.




http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...sIimage001.gif ... and here's what the Bears look like again for comparison... http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...9_image001.gif

Good work, which I assume is correct (except for Nate Collins being included), excel is a wonderful tool. The tricky part is getting the cap numbers......correct.

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Originally Posted by short faced bear

Lol @ dickfingers Davis for TE chart.

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Yeah..I know...I'm at work and I couldn't help but to bust out laughing...now everyone is looking at me. Guess I might actually have to do some work..

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Originally Posted by BearStuff

Good work, which I assume is correct (except for Nate Collins being included), excel is a wonderful tool. The tricky part is getting the cap numbers......correct.

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Nate Collins was re-signed on Mar 14.

The charts are great. I'm a visual guy, so this makes it far easier to understand where the money is going. Thanks JJ.

I found the Oline interesting. Garza eats up a lot of $$$ for what he delivers. Carimi too for that matter.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...L_image001.gif

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Originally Posted by JJ-30

In conclusion.... We need more PIE !!!!

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Hmmmm, I've been looking all morning but there isn't a position listed under UFA's called "baker". :lol-027:

So what do we do now? :think:

Those are excellent graphics JJ and it should give us all a clearer picture of where that cap dollars are being spent. Thanks a bunch brother.

During an interview at the Combine Bill Polian was asked some questions about structuring a team in this era of cap limits and he was firm in his belief that you have to feature either and elite defense or an elite offense. You can't have both.

From this we can see that it's been the defense that's been heavily favored during the Lovie/JA era and from what I can see that's about to change. Of course on big reason for the abundance of cap spent on the D are the contracts of some long time vets who have or are reaching the end of their deals and their big money years. Pep is consuming a ton of that space along with guys like Peanut and Briggs as well. This is where Emery has some tough decisions to make not only now but in the next two years as well.

There's an obvious need to lose some of those big dollar deals and either restructure them with more cap friendly terms or release these player and recapture that cap space. I have a feeling we're gonna be having many more discussions around here about these guys just as we've had over Urlacher this year. It's pretty plain that if Emery wants to re-balance that cap he's gonna need to shave dollars from those defensive positions.

This is a great graphic to work from. Thanks again JJ. :thanx:

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Originally Posted by JustAnotherBearsFan99

The charts are great. I'm a visual guy, so this makes it far easier to understand where the money is going. Thanks JJ.

I found the Oline interesting. Garza eats up a lot of $$$ for what he delivers. Carimi too for that matter.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...L_image001.gif

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But in this case Garza is as good, or bad, as he'll ever be whereas Carimi has youth and upside. He's also still working under his rookie deal with it's guarantees so he needs to stick around and prove himself this year or it may be his last in Chicago.

The only issue we have with Garza is the need to replace him with someone and whether or not we get any improvement or savings. If EWill could do it then we get savings but do we get any improvement or even less productivity?

It's always the same game. Any time you cut a guy you never completely recover what you save because he has to be replaced with someone else. That's always in the mix.