Seahawks Fire Sale Rumored

[Mojouw]

Clearly they’ll be shedding cap space. Right now they haven’t and they are taking salary on before shedding it. They’re further under at the moment but the point is, they aren’t afraid to make the moves knowing they have a plan to get out from under it.

Which is different than the Steelers how?

Also they didn't take on salary with Bennett.

[86WARD]

On the books, the Eagles do incur the salary. With Bennett, they took about $6M of his salary, not the full amount but substantial. That puts them currently at about $191M. They traded Torrey Smith and his $5M cap this morning so that $191 is a bit lower.

As for how is it different, the Eagles are overly aggressive with what they want and go for it...almost with no regard for the cap (although clearly they have a plan) where as the Steelers free up cap space before making their minor moves. A restructure to a number of players (AB with more to come), a player or two released (Mike Mitchell) and then they appear look at the field and make their moves. Totally different frame of mind. Neither is wrong, neither is right but clearly, there are two different styles to roster management, cap space and free agency.

[Mojouw]

On the books, the Eagles do incur the salary. With Bennett, they took about $6M of his salary, not the full amount but substantial. That puts them currently at about $191M. They traded Torrey Smith and his $5M cap this morning so that $191 is a bit lower.

As for how is it different, the Eagles are overly aggressive with what they want and go for it...almost with no regard for the cap (although clearly they have a plan) where as the Steelers free up cap space before making their minor moves. A restructure to a number of players (AB with more to come), a player or two released (Mike Mitchell) and then they appear look at the field and make their moves. Totally different frame of mind. Neither is wrong, neither is right but clearly, there are two different styles to roster management, cap space and free agency.

Sure. But the bottom line is despite the fact that it might take a week, this works out to $6 million on the cap for Bennett in order to shed $11 million on the cap for Curry. So a better player for less money.

You are right, the Eagles front office is aggressive and appears to be a bit ahead of the league in how they approach roster construction. I would gladly ship out 3-5 round draft picks to obtain established players on reasonable contracts.

Which to the Steelers credit, they have been trying recently with Wilcox, McDonald, etc.