Can someone tell me how Denver has all this money?

[gowazzu02]

Slightly off topic, but they are a huge threat to our dreams of back to back superbowl wins....

So alot of you guys on here are much smarter then I am.

How in the world can Denver be under the salary cap? Ware, Ward, Talib, Sanders all signed. Mannings making 19 million, How are they able to sign all those guys? Do they get a special "manning as your qb" cap number im not aware of?

 

[Largent80]

You can figure it out here.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/denver-broncos/

 

[kobebryant]

They are not a huge threat, they are a threat.

None of those signings have made them 30+ points better, nor have they addressed the issues that led to them getting blown out: soft on offense, no power run game, immobility at QB, QB with an arm too weak to threaten the deep 3rd, crappy right tackle.

To answer your question - they are mortgaging the future for the present by backloading contracts.

 

[Basis4day]

Welcome to the forum. This thread belongs in the NFL forum, not the Seahawks forum. Mods will likely move it soon.

To answer your question, here is an article from espn:

http://espn.go.com/blog/denver-broncos/ ... t-they-did

 

[hawknation2014]

Broncos had 18 unrestricted free agents: S Mike Adams, DE Robert Ayers, G Zane Beadles, LB Stewart Bradley, WR Andre Caldwell, CB Marquice Cole, WR Eric Decker, S Michael Huff, S Quentin Jammer, OT Winston Justice, C Dan Koppen, LB Paris Lenon, DE Jeremy Mincey, RB Knowshon Moreno, LB Shaun Phillips, CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, C Steve Vallos, LB Wesley Woodyard.

They ended up letting most of these players go, including Decker and Beadles, which opened up a lot of money to spend.

Sometimes having 18 free agents is a good thing, when you are coming off an embarrassing Super Bowl loss and only have one of two years left of your future Hall of Famer QB. It allowed them to clean house and load up on costly free agents, who will help them in the short term and then become albatrosses in two or three years. But by that time, Manning will be gone and Elway will be thinking about retirement, so who cares? They are determined to win now, and that required transforming their defense.

 

[gowazzu02]

thx guys,

 

[Brahn]

Because they have only 2 players making over 5 Mil?

 

[OffseasonChampions]

A huge threat? WTF? What part of 35 point beatdown is a huge threat? 49ers and even the Cards are more of threat than the soft Broncos. They wouldn't even break the top 3 of hardest opponents we will face at CLink in 2014. 1. SF 2. GB 3. AZ.

 

[Largent80]

Take a look at Dallas on that link I provided if you want your eyes to pop.

 

[hawksfansinceday1]

Borrowing against the future (running on credit if you will). Ask Jerry Jones, the Raiders, et. al. how well that worked out. Horseface still thinks Peyton can get him a "W" in the Owl. He's wrong and the franchise will pay for it 5-7 years from now and it'll cost him his job as well. On a personal note: couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

 

[RolandDeschain]

A combination of setting some deadwood adrift, (like dumping Champ Bailey who had $14m I think it was coming to him in 2014) and not caring about your future cap situation. It's actually easy in the NFL to free up a ton of space quickly, if you don't mind sacrificing the near future. This almost never turns out well, but I guess we'll see what happens with Denver. I suspect I know what will happen in short order. :devil:

 

[Scottemojo]

It's been said. Cut champ, don't sign very many of your own, mortgage the future, and lose track of winning the west while staring at New England.

Elway will spend all of next season praying to the gods of the Soopah Bow that he does not have to rely on his depth.

 

[SouthSoundHawk]

They're going all in, and they're going about it all wrong.

It's awesome to sit back and watch these teams clamoring for overpaid free agents, while PC&JS keep their core players together for yet another run at the owl. Every player Seattle has lost can be (relatively) easy to replace through the draft or by guys they had waiting on IR/PS...the way they work the off season really is something to behold.

PS - I would love to see Von Miller walk because they can't afford to pay him.

 

[kf3339]

I don't know why anyone is worried about the Broncos next year. First, we already made them look like piss ants in the Super Bowl. Second, they have to play the NFC West this season which is very likely going to be an 0-4 beat down. Last, their depth is going to be poor in a game where starters almost always get hurt.

This will likely make them a non-playoff team let alone even getting the chance to sniff another Super Bowl anytime soon.

 

[James in PA]

Who cares. They're frauds. Paper champions. How often do a bunch of flashy offseason moves result in a championship? Most NFL media "experts" are kissing Elway's ass over all these moves. A year from now they'll all be calling for his head when that team is a mess. They're not winning the Superbowl.

 

[DavidSeven]

Where have they really improved? Going from DRC to Talib is an upgrade but an incremental one. Ware gives them what Dumervil did 2 years ago. They may have downgraded at WR by going from Decker to Sanders. In the meantime, they've tied up a bunch of their future cap with older players and Peyton probably isn't going HAM on the record books again.

 

[drrew]

If you look at that Denver team last year, who would you have expected was pulling in any significant money? Manning, Welker, Bailey, Clady?

There problem will be Von Miller and Demaryus Thomas will expect huge money next offseason, and unless Peyton retires after next season they'll have a hard time coming up with the cap space.

If Peyton retires, they're in great shape cap wise, just minus a QB.

 

[ivotuk]

They still don't have any offensive linemen that can slow down Avril or Bennett.

 

[SomersetHawk]

They still don't have any offensive linemen that can slow down Avril or Bennett.

Yeh, it's going to piss me off when they draft Joel Bitonio one before us.

Unless of course they've passed on Donald/OBJ/Lee to do so