I looked back on Giants.com's transaction history and see a pattern where the team always seems to have a cap casualty a few days (or a few weeks at most) after the Super Bowl.
2010
Super Bowl played on 2/7
-Antonio Pierce cut on 2/11
2013
Super Bowl played on 2/3
-Michael Boley cut on 2/5
-Ahmad Bradshaw cut on 2/6
-Chris Canty cut on 2/6
2015
Super Bowl played on 2/1
-David Wilson cut on 2/11
-Mathias Kiwanuka cut on 2/24
2016
Super Bowl played on 2/7
-Will Beatty cut on 2/10
-Geoff Schwartz cut on 2/10
2017
Super Bowl played on 2/5
-Rashad Jennings 2/13
-Victor Cruz 2/13
I have a hunch by Valentine's Day, somebody is getting released.
How long does it take to evaluate their tape?
And on 1/2 of the rest, would we care?
I'm guessing by the 16th the roster bottom feeders and any cap casualties will start. Toughest for me would be DRC; talent is waning but appears a team guy.
How long does it take to evaluate their tape?
The problem is a lot of the players on the bubble may need to be kept for other reasons (health of OBJ, Eli Apple's head) that the Giants don't want to rush to cut a player then find out that they are scrambling for a replacement that will then cost as much as the cap savings of the cut player to sign
LMAO. C'mon djstat! Doesn't Hart get a "clean-slate" too? Clean slate for Eli Apple, Clean slate for DRC, Clean slate for JackRabbit, Clean slate for Flowers, why not Clean slate for Hart...
It's like Oprah giving away cars!
Pretty sure you can't cut an injured player without an injury settlement. Read something to that effect a couple of weeks ago, but can't remember where.
He probably sticks unless they need the money he makes to sign a player. His contract is pretty ripe for the picking.
So that leaves about $9.5M in cap space to sign free agents and give core guys like Beckham and Collins extensions.
Gettleman and Abrams are gonna need to cut some guys and do a good job of restructuring contracts in order to get it done.