2019 Salary Cap Rise = Jameis Pay Increase
December 12th, 2018
The NFL is bursting with revenue and so is Team Glazer.
Wait a minute, all those political experts insisted the NFL would take a big-money hit because of pregame protests. Alas, America adores its football played by grown men, so league income is way up and, subsequently, so is next year’s salary cap.
“The NFL informed clubs [Tuesday] that the projections for the 2019 salary cap are in the range of $187.0 million to $191.1 million,” the league said in a statement.
That represents about a $13 million jump from 2018. In other words, NFL teams will have another $400 million to work with next year.
Conveniently, America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, is scheduled to earn $20.9 million next season, all of which will count against the salary cap. That’s $13 million more than he counts against this year’s cap, a raise nearly identical to the cap increase.
The Bucs have plenty of key salary decisions to make next season, including Kwon Alexander and Donovan Smith, but they’ll have the salary cap increase to work with and several big salaries they can dump without major consequences.
December 12th, 2018 at 11:35 am
Jamies is a $20.9 million dollar quarterback, pay the man!
December 12th, 2018 at 11:35 am
Tricky business…as a rising tide tends to raise all boats…I’d like #93 back with a huge cap friendly restructure if that is possible…Donovan , I’d be afraid to give him anymore money with a new contract …
December 12th, 2018 at 11:42 am
trade Winston for an accurate qb
December 12th, 2018 at 11:42 am
Yeah, dump WinSTUNNED, Marshmallow McCoy and Alligator Arms DJax. Lots of cash!
December 12th, 2018 at 11:44 am
Over the last 10 years, the cap has not been an issue. We have always had lots of $ and no one to spend on. Might as well give the 21 mil and see what he does next year. Its unfortunate we couldn’t be good when our qb was cheap. I’d draft a qb too thou.
December 12th, 2018 at 11:49 am
Don’t think of the money per touchdown breakdown (at this point would be over 1 million per touchdown!!!!), use the breakdown of money per inaccurate throw, and it will seem like a bargin ($100 thousand per inaccurate throw)!!!!!!!!!!
GO Bucs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 12th, 2018 at 11:56 am
time to abonden ship ive seen enough..
December 12th, 2018 at 12:00 pm
$20.9 puts him in the middle of the pack of QB salaries right where it belongs.
Definitely a lot of decisions to be made, but some seem to be common sense.
December 12th, 2018 at 12:02 pm
I’d pay 20mil to see Jameis in a new offense. If still not sure franchise him in 2020 before a long term commitment.
December 12th, 2018 at 12:06 pm
Hopefully if Winston gets a pay raise, it will be given to him by his new team where he will be a backup
December 12th, 2018 at 12:09 pm
Just don’t let Licht be making the decision to extend, Kwon, or Smith. He’s the one who drafted them, and of course will over pay both to prove they were good draft choices. We don’t even know when Kwon will be ready, or what he’s lost when he comes back. We need a MLB like Seattle has a real beast. Dallas’s rookie is playing better then Kwon has ever played, we can do better. Smith isn’t a top LT, and we can’t afford to spend more money on under performers. We need to draft two real tackles who’ve proved they can do it like the kid from Ol Miss. We don’t need another Cappa, that’s what Licht would give us.
December 12th, 2018 at 12:21 pm
I gotta say…@Hodad is making a ton of sense there ^^^^^^ Well done Hodad, making especially good sense on what kind of Kwon will we have when he comes back, Kappa (thus far), and that Licht would most especially overpay his own draft picks to prove their selections were sound.
GO GET JOHN HARBAUGH! Let him cultivate his own front office executive/GM.
And BTW…Jameis is gonna have to get paid, and we’ll need to hand him a fairly large check to pull down the cap hit, like all QB’s get. Come to terms with it folks.
Bucs resurgence!!
December 12th, 2018 at 12:28 pm
LOL.
December 12th, 2018 at 12:52 pm
Donovan Smith???? I guess you are joking Joe right? Paying an OL that can´t block, is like paying a QB that can´t throw!!!!!
December 12th, 2018 at 12:56 pm
the new GM & KRIS RICHARD will know what to do with the cap space….
#NOEXCUSESIN2018!!!!…#PRESSURESONTHECOACHES!!!…GO BUCS!!!
December 12th, 2018 at 12:59 pm
BrianBucs said it best!!!
December 12th, 2018 at 1:07 pm
Please trade JW, Donovan Smith, GMC and Hargraves on draft day. Get at least 3 Olinemen, 2 dbs and dump Benenoch. Get a QB in 1st or 2nd round.
December 12th, 2018 at 1:29 pm
I agree with getting rid of D smith, Bennoch & Dotson & drafting two OL high in the draft, as long as Licht isn’t in the draft room or better yet not part of the Bucs at all. There are several high end tackles in the draft.
December 12th, 2018 at 1:34 pm
pay Winston get rid of brate and Jackson and pay leveon bell!!!!
December 12th, 2018 at 1:51 pm
Hire a new GM
December 12th, 2018 at 1:55 pm
That’s peanuts compared to other starting QBs that are worse than him. Pay the man. Matter of fact, sign him to an extension. Go Bucs.
December 12th, 2018 at 2:14 pm
The only thing worse than Looking for a franchise QB, is thinking that you have one when you do not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Bucs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 12th, 2018 at 2:24 pm
The Bucs are stuck with Jameis. He’s too good to get rid of but not good enough to be great. We are stuck. We gotta sign him and hope he gets better. Good luck!
December 12th, 2018 at 3:00 pm
No rational person can try to extend Jameis while at the same time argue we need to clean house.
December 12th, 2018 at 3:13 pm
20 mil is 20 million reason to let JW go and fix other glaring issues. We can find another qb better than JW.
December 12th, 2018 at 3:39 pm
Donovan Smith is clearly a liability at left tackle. Who knows at right tackle or right guard.
He is worth the average mediocre left tackle salary. Joe, what would that be?
thanks
December 12th, 2018 at 3:42 pm
A story today notes that of the top 6 highest paid qbs, only Kirk Cousins is currently on track to make the playoffs. The teams with the best records have a young qb on a “rookie” contract.
Agree with pelbuc that hopefully the Bucs draft a new qb
in the 1st round.
tickrdr
December 12th, 2018 at 3:55 pm
Winston, since his return, 3 games and 1 quarter of football, has nearly 1000 yards passing, 8 TDs and 2 INTs, both of those INT’s being hail marys.
So he’s not turning the ball over, not forcing the ball into coverage, not making plays, he’s being the boring game manager QB, he’s being Mike Glennon, which is exactly what the Winston haters say they wanted.
Yet they still complain?
It’s almost like the Winston haters are fake news frauds who will literally complain about everything, and it’s why I give them exactly ZERO respect. They’re liars and they’re dishonest.
December 12th, 2018 at 5:10 pm
I am soooooooooooo glad that none of you make the decisions for this team!
December 12th, 2018 at 6:24 pm
Rod Munch – DUDE… get some original material! You keep using “fake news” in a completely unrelated context.
There’s no fake news or false facts in the reality that Jameis Winston is not a consistent, WINNING QB.
So he’s had a few games without as many turnovers as usual… boy, that’s refreshing. LOL. His consistent body of work proves that he is a HIGH TURNOVER QB.
Your unabashed love for Winston, no matter how bad he plays or his 4th year of lack of wins, is ABSURD.
I would bet anything you sleep with a Winston doll.
December 12th, 2018 at 6:39 pm
Man I hate the pictures they show of Jamies on this site. I don’t know why or what it means or what the hold point is but it’s starting to make me wonder why Keotter don’t have pictures or any other white players? It just makes me wonder why that’s all .
December 12th, 2018 at 7:01 pm
Well, no one here gets to decide, that’s up to the Glazer boys. And when they make their offer, we’ll finally see how they really feel about Winston.
December 12th, 2018 at 7:03 pm
What Sumo said…
December 12th, 2018 at 7:10 pm
Realisto’s opinion will always and forever be declared irrelevant until he admits that he is 120% wrong about the bum that is Mike Smith.
Ima just put it like this. You rightfully lambasted the ever-living daylights out of Lovie for being the garbage coach that he was. Yet defend Mike Smith, WHEN HIS DEFENSES WERE WORSE THAN LOVIES!
Nothing you say has any weight to it until this massive discrepancy is addressed dude. Jameis has been much, much better at his job in his tenure with the Bucs than Mike Smith ever did outside of one fluke stretch in 2016 when we were playing against teams that were ravaged by injury.
December 12th, 2018 at 10:24 pm
If they being back Donovan smith anything more than 7-8 million a year with nothing guaranteed after one or two years I’d be pissed. No more season tickets. I’d rather see Webster and Liedke at tackles than these bums we have. And get benenoch the hell outta here.. SMH
December 13th, 2018 at 8:30 am
Great. Why don’t they throw money at Smith and Bennoch as long as they are flushing it down the toilet?
December 13th, 2018 at 11:31 am
Humphries, DJax and Grimes will be gone next year,
possibly McCoy as well,
Giants would jump on opportunity to sign Jameis…
December 13th, 2018 at 12:03 pm
Jameis deserves another year or two, preferably behind a better line. That would be interesting.