{"id":17945,"date":"2013-02-01T22:35:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T02:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=17945"},"modified":"2013-02-01T22:40:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T02:40:58","slug":"will-pouha-be-a-salary-cap-casualty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2013\/02\/01\/will-pouha-be-a-salary-cap-casualty\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Po\u2019uha Be A Cap Casualty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nose tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2012\/09\/12\/is-this-sione-pouhas-last-season-as-a-jet\/\">Sione Po\u2019uha<\/a> is a favorite amongst fans as you often hear the \u201cPooouuuhhhhaaa\u201d chant from the Jets faithful whenever he makes a play.\u00a0 Unfortunately the chant was not heard as often this year as in the past.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/player\/sionepouha\/2506427\/profile\">Po\u2019uha<\/a> finished his eighth NFL season starting 10 games with 29 tackles and 1 sack while fighting back problems all year.<\/p>\n<p>With the Jets being a projected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalfootballpost.com\/The-Revis-roller-coaster-continues.html\">$23 million over the 2013 salary cap<\/a> and Po\u2019uha turning 34 on February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, coming off a down year and fighting what appear to be chronic injuries he\u2019s become a potential salary cap casualty.<\/p>\n<p>Po\u2019uha signed a three year $15 million contract with the Jets before the start of the 2012 season but his $4.9 million 2013 base salary becomes guaranteed on the third day of the league year (March 14<sup>th<\/sup>).\u00a0 If he is released before then the Jets get a salary cap savings of $3.834 million with a $2.334 million dead money hit, money which counts on the cap for a player no longer on the team.<\/p>\n<p>Po\u2019uha is just one of the many difficult decisions general manager John Idzik will have to make but given the team\u2019s financial issues he\u2019s best choice might be to move on from the aging defensive linemen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nose tackle Sione Po\u2019uha is a favorite amongst fans as you often hear the \u201cPooouuuhhhhaaa\u201d chant from the Jets faithful whenever he makes a play.\u00a0 Unfortunately the chant was not heard as often this year as in the past.\u00a0 Po\u2019uha finished his eighth NFL season starting 10 games with 29 tackles and 1 sack while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":14820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1337,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Sione-Pouha.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-4Fr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17945"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17952,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945\/revisions\/17952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}