Brown Out

Too funny that Paul Domowitch writes about an issue that should have been covered two weeks ago during the, "will Reggie Brown make the team or will he be cut in favor of Hank Baskett" navel gazing. Now it comes out, that of course Brown wasn't cut because of the huge salary cap hit the team would take. http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/columnists/20090918_Paul_Domowitch__Making_cents_of_Brown_situation.html

But cut through all of Domo's dense reporting and here's the bottomline. The Eagles will take a cap hit for releasing Brown but it won't be as bad as he portrays it and will certainly leave the team with plenty of room left to make any acquisitions they need over the course of the rest of the season.

Were the Eags to cut Brown, his cap hit would be $6.5 million ($7.3 prorated bonus minus his $884k base salary). As Domo reports, the Eagles present cap room is about $9 million, meaning that letting go of Brown will give them $2.5 million left to sign Jon Runyan and any other players they might need to fill subsequent injury voids.