Six potential salary cap casualties for Cardinals this offseason
Cardinals are projected over $11.8 million in cap space in 2021
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The Arizona Cardinals will have some difficult decisions to make this offseason when it comes to releasing their own players.
With the 2021 NFL salary cap expected to be a little over the cap floor of $180 million and the Cardinals projected to have a low cap space total of over $11.83 million, player releases are inevitable in order to be aggressive in free agency.
One team that has been busy this morning is the Carolina Panthers. They released Tre Boston, Michael Palardy, and Stephen Weatherly. Include Kawaan Short, who they cut earlier this week, and they created $21.3 million in cap space.
NFL free agency: OLB Haason Reddick edge rusher the Giants need?
Should Reddick be a priority, or should the Giants be wary after his breakout 2020 season?
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Haason Reddick is a Temple grad and a Camden, NJ native. For years, I have listened to Giants media members and fans speculate that the edge-needy New York Giants should try to bring Reddick, a tantalizing talent who underperformed prior to the 2020 season, home to New Jersey.
Well, this offseason the Giants might get that chance.
Coming off a breakout 12.5-sack season with the Arizona Cardinals that included a dominant 5-sack game against the Giants, it looks like Reddick is headed to free agency. Let’s examine whether or not Reddick is a player the Giants should pursue if he reaches the open market.
Arizona Cardinals 2021: 7 Suggestions
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Following the Cardinals season-ending disappointment, many fans, including myself, are feeling disillusioned and skeptical about the direction of their football team under the current GM, head coach and coaching staff.
While it’s often cathartic and therapeutic for fans to express their frustration and dismay, if there’s one thing we long-beleaguered Cardinals know a little something about, it’s how to think our way through the maze like a mouse following the scent of peanut butter.
Yesterday, Jim Shapiro, courtesy of BetOnLIne, offered Cardinals fans this reality check with regard to their odds of winning the NFC West in 2021:
TEMPE, Ariz. If Arizona Cardinals linebacker Haason Reddick did one of those How it started . how it s going memes to describe his 2020 season, it d go something like this: Frame 1 Reddick sitting on a bench, unsure of how much playing time he d get with a list of goals in a thought bubble. Frame 2 Reddick celebrating around all of his doubters.
It was that kind of year for the former first-round pick.
Reddick s 12.5 sacks were fourth-best in the NFL in 2020, and because of his breakout season, he s put himself in a position to cash in on his productivity either with the Cardinals or somewhere else.