Green Bay Packers 2012 Salary Overview

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1. Glad to see this.
   What I would like to see changed:
   1. Restructure Woodson to about 7-8 mil
   2. Cut hawk. Save 6.5 mil in complete dead weight. There’s some dispute over how much we’d be obligated to him. I don’t really care. We need to rectify this mistake as soon as possible to clear salary cap room if not for this year then for our future.
   3. Cut Clifton 6mil freed up.
   4. Draft konz dont re sign wells. By every indication wells isn’t being reasonable so let him walk. We’d be able to at least break even in this move…
   5. Resign grant for like 1.3 mil or else let him walk. 1.2- 3.7mil saved
   6. Resign bush for 1.2mil or let him walk. 500000 saved
   7.drop walden 600k saved
   8.restructure picket for 3.5mil he’s not worth 5.7. Save 2.2mil
   9. Nick Collins doesn’t come back. 4.8mil cleared
   10. Green, Flynn, and lee gone. 2.3mil saved
   11. DD gone. 5mil saved.

   All in all about 35mil in salary cap cleared. Lots of room for pass rushers and DB’s.

2. I would prefer Collins to come back but neck injury = bad news so I’m leaning toward no. Also restructure bishop for like 1.7 mil save 2.8 mil nullified by the fact that jf is pulling 7.5 instead of 5.5 so still same in savings

3. Interesting observation (at least to me):

   Justin Harrell will make more $ in 2012 than Tim Masthay, Marshall Newhouse, Tom Crabtree, James Starks, CJ Wilson, Sam Shields, Robert Francois and Frank Zombo among others.

   Dead money indeed.

4. Thanks for the hard work Adam. This is why Al’s readers are the most informed NFL fans.

   Going to throw this into an Excel spread sheet and have some fun.

   1. Thanks for the kind words, Ron. But for this information, the credit goes to the Journal-Sentinel staff.

      But I guess if you want to give me all the praise, I won’t stop you 🙂

5. I like CWood, but man does his contract stand out. Way overpaid relative to everyone else. Is there even a chance he restructures?

   A lot has been said about DD, Cliffy and Hawk, but most of the other salaries look pretty fair.

6. Adam,
   Your analysis brings to the surface an undeniable truth. When you combine the way the draft allows the lower ranked teams to gooble up the top college talent and the “Cap” prevents the top teams from keeping all their current players in tow forever, you have “PARITY.” Just what the league wants.

   TT has put GB in the best possible position to remain competitive by his far-sighted approach to building a team. That’s not to say he hasn”t made some mistakes, he has. Wahle, Riviera, and Harrel come to mind. But, I doubt that there are many teams in the league that are as ready to move into the next generation of NFL football as the Packers.

   Which brings us to now. Assuming the Packers are in the run for the SB, and I do, they will need to make some moves to improve their defense. To do that they need some impact players. That will cost some bucks and that requires some “Cap” space freed up. A lot of things need to happen for that to be. Cuts, renegotiation, are the two most likely. Players who have failed to live up to their current contracts are at risk. Players who have performed well but are decllining talent-wise are at risk. Even some young talent that has shown potential are at risk.

   I’m glad we have TT to make those choices. the only thing I ask is that it is done with class.

   Just wait until the 2014 pre-season insanity to really get high blood pressure.

   1. As for 2014, I’m sincerely hoping any key cogs from that “Free agent class” are renegotiated to long(er)-term contracts before the end of the 2013 season.

      1. Me too!

   2. I missed the memo on this. What happens in the 2014 pre season? Are you talking about starters coming up on new contracts?

7. As much as I love Woodson, that contract is WAY overpaying him.

8. Jeez I got slaughtered on that one… Lol wish you guys would accompany your thumbs down with sone feedback

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