I don’t think we should go for any superstar FAs, but definitely get some mid-tier guys to help balance out the roster.

The Jets are committed to $128 million already. I don’t know if that includes the players whose contracts expire or not. But, if the cap is $120, as Clayton suggests, then the $8.3 million gets us to break even. So we have no room. If the cap is $128 million, as some others have projected, then we have some wiggle room, but not much. Anything in between is obviously worse.

For the renegotiation fans, 10 players account for $90 million of salary cap in 2012. So, to look at it another way, that leaves us 30 million for 43 players + practice squad players, many of whom are already on the roster. And all that money is already committed to 2012, except in the case of a renegotiation, which brings us back to Sanchez and Keller as – realistically, not from some Fantasy Island delirium – the only sources of cap relief for this coming year.

Obviously, Tanny knew what he was facing in 2012 based on the contracts given out the previous 2 years. Now we see why they didn’t spend the money this past season. They knew they could be over the cap, so this was the insurance policy.