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Monday Night Football and quarterback Tom Brady was over the hill? No? Neither does anybody else. Brady and the Patriots are firing on all cylinders heading into the start of the holiday season Devin White Jersey , and they remain atop all National Football League power rankings after easily taking care of a Detroit Lions side that remains one of the best teams in all of the NFC, despite how poorly Detroit was made to look in New England.The Patriots are unique in that they are the only team that essentially has a division title already in their grasp before Thanksgiving. That logjam in the AFC North isn't breaking up anytime soon. The Denver Broncos cannot separate from two divisional opponents despite notching another win. Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers are playing like true championship contenders, and yet they are only one game up in the NFC North standings. Even the Indianapolis Colts haven't guaranteed themselves anything at this stage of the campaign.The NFL is a league that is set up to provide a majority of clubs opportunities to qualify for the postseason every year, and it is once again proving to be a successful model. 24 teams can realistically claim to be in the playoff hunt as Thanksgiving Day approaches. It appears as if a team with a losing record is destined to emerge as the NFC South regular season champion, and there is mathematically a chance that some 11-win clubs could be on the outside looking in come January.But wait. It gets even more hilarious once you really break it down. Not only could a 5-11 team win a division. That side would, under the format for the NFL Playoffs L.J. Collier Jersey , get a home game. Fans would understandably be upset were such a scenario to occur, but there is some beauty in the chaos that is the NFL. More fans than not have reasons to tune in every weekend, and that makes for December being truly exciting for both diehard fans who live and die on their favorite teams, as well as for casual viewers who prefer watching NFL RedZone. The National Football League is the only major sports league in North America that does not have fully guaranteed contracts. When a player signs with an NFL team, his contract is broken up into two main categories: signing bonus, which is guaranteed Johnathan Abram Jersey , and base salary. The signing bonus is paid to the player at the signing of the contract, but the value of the bonus is amortized over the term on the contract, and counts against a team’s salary cap. Base salary is the yearly wage that the player will earn if he remains with the team. In more simple terms, a 2-year contract worth $4M with a $1M signing bonus results in a cap hit of $2.5M a season.If the team were to release that player before his second year, the team would only be penalized for the portion of the signing bonus applied that year, $500K of “dead money” Maxx Crosby Jersey , and the team would save $2M against the salary cap. This policy means that no NFL player is safe- a team could cut any player from the roster at any time. Player agents are always looking to negotiate the most guaranteed money for their clients as possible, but it is the team manager’s job to assess if the player will actually remain at that value through the entire contract.We have compiled a list of the NFL players most likely to be cut from their respective rosters prior to the start of the 2018 season. We considered a player’s production vs their cap hit, and looked at how much “dead money” would be counted against the team’s overall salary cap were that player to be released. Unfortunately for these players, their time with their respective teams is over, and they will be looking for new jobs before the 2018 season begins.