Redskins move so far

I like them a lot.  Feel like the Skins are being very smart in what they are doing.  I have agreed with all the moves thus far outside of hoping we could have kept Lorenzo Alexander.  Cutting D. Hall made perfect sense.  I like that we have resigned all the blue collar guys that make things run.  I mentioned this before but we also resigned LB Kehl which is even more important given that we lost Alexander. 

Key now is to get a CB and there are still plenty of them out there.  I'm sure we want to buy our time which is smart.  It is clearly a buyers market with CBs and there is no reason to rush and overspend.  Buy time and wait for prices to drop and we should be able to get a solid CB.  How could we do it with our cap situation?  The first thing they would have to do is create some cap space, probably by restructuring a contract or two. A simple restructure is a fairly routine procedure as the player usually doesn’t give up any money and gets a chunk of his annual salary up front and guaranteed.  Then the team and the agent for the player they are going to sign have to negotiate a contract that is cap friendly in the first year.

For example, the contract Reggie Bush signed with the Lions.  He received a four-year, $16 million contract that included a $4 million signing bonus and a $1 million base salary in 2013. So Bush will be paid $5 million in cash in 2013 but will count $2 million against the cap (a $1 million base salary plus $1 million prorated). With higher base salaries in future years, his cap number will rise to $4.5 million in 2014 and 2015, and $5 million in 2016.

Key to this is that you can only do this for a few guys otherwise, you will run into some VERY serious cap problems down the road. 

Bruce Allen isn't so much a talent evaluator but one of his real strong points is he is very good at managing the cap and if can be done, he'll do it. 

Should be interesting to see if we are able to bring Davis back and add a quality CB.