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FEATHER in their CAP
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CALL OFF THE general panic over the Eagles' perceived lack of salary-cap space. If the Birds need more cap room, to sign their own free agents or someone else's, they can create it, general manager Tom Heckert said yesterday.

Heckert noted that many of the long-term contracts the team has negotiated contain 2007 roster bonuses that can be converted to signing bonuses and then amortized, freeing up 2007 money. Heckert emphasized that the Birds prefer to keep the contracts as they are - if you change bonus terms to help 2007, you decrease the room down the line - but the flexibility is there, if they need it.

It's hard to get an accurate fix on exact cap figures. The 2007 cap is expected to be $109 million, and various calculations have the Birds $9 million to $12 million under that total - barely a decent signing bonus for a prominent soon-to-be free agent such as Eagles wideout Donté Stallworth.

But Heckert said cap room wouldn't preclude the Eagles from, say, franchising Stallworth, at $7,613,000 for this coming season, or from signing Stallworth or quarterback Jeff Garcia to a new deal.

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Philadelphia Daily News | 02/21/2007 | FEATHER in their CAP

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I heard that the Eagles will let Stallworth and Garcia test FA and then resign them. I do not think that it would be a good idea to do so. The Eagles do not have as much cap space as other teams do and can not get in a bidding war. They may be hoping that if they see what is out there they would be willing to resign for a lesser amount then than it would to take to resign them now. I would go so far as saying that Quintin Mikell will be resigned before either one of them are. Th e Eagles are not the type of team to hurt their future cap space just to get a little more moving room this year so I do not think they would change a lot of the bonus also of the 9-12 million some where around 3 million will have to go to the rookies

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