The Cards did some housecleaning on Tuesday, and because of it they saved themselves some cash on this seasons salary cap. The Arizona Republic reports that the team saved quite a bit of space with the release of corner Rod Hood.

Hood said he had earned a play-time incentive that would have boosted his salary by $2 million. That means he would have made $5 million in salary and his cap number would have been $5.5 million in 2009.

The cap savings from cutting Hood are greater, given his previously reported base salary of $3 million. The extra $2 million in savings means the club saves about $7.5 million by cutting Hood, Edgerrin James and Travis LaBoy.

Before the moves, the team was about $1.2 million under the cap, so it should be about $8.7 million under now, precluding more bonuses, escalators and the like.