Cowboys top cash spending team in 2021

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The salary cap in any given year is what dictates will be spent that season. Whether it's dead money, restructures from previous years, or signing bonuses for new players, those charges all equate to what's available to spend. Is it unreasonable to say they're not spending because previous decisions have determined that they are unable to spend without adverse affects on future finances?
I think it is unreasonable, because we see teams in worse shape manipulate the cap in their favor and make signings year in and year out. It's so fluid, if the FO wanted to add FAs they would.
 

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Haters? I literally just posted the figures from the article coming from the NFLPA for all years....pg 1 The article was well written. They discussed all of this on the radio yesterday. This is why the OP is attacking it....it has been in the news. Then a second article I listed from weeks back posts the same information. The OP just didn't like it. Th numbers posted are not false and are from the source.
Spotrac and OverTheCap are by far the most used references for NFL cap information.

Do you really beileve that Spotrac is wrong by over 60 million dollars...?
 

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Spotrac and OverTheCap are by far the most used references for NFL cap information.

Do you really beileve that Spotrac is wrong by over 60 million dollars...?
Spotrac isn’t what I’d call accurate all the time. OTC is better. But why would NFLPA have different numbers for all those years? It’s not Cowboy driven. Two separate articles reference them and multiple finance guys have gone through them. As I said they were discussed on the radio yesterday and so far there is no blowback. The original article compiled their data. Unless you can prove the NFLPA is putting out false data then the question is what are both sources basing “cash” as.

Honestly…and it’s been mentioned…I think there is some conspiracy/tin foil to all of it and I’m not a cap pro but it makes for good discussion
 

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Bottom line is that the salary cap is easily manipulated. Most teams miniplate the cap to spend more than they are allowed. The cowboys miniplate the cap to make it appear they are spending more than they actually are. This confirms that the Cowboys don't care about winning, they only care about appearing to care about winning.
That is not actully true.

Teams can take out "cap loans" in order to spend more some years; however, those loans must be paid back at some point in time with cap space from future years.

There is a reason that the Chiefs traded away their star CB this year and their star WR last year...

The Chiefs win because their 45M per (average) is paid to Mahomes while the Cowboys 40M (average) is paid to Dak.

The Niners made it to the SB because their QB averages less than 1 million (934K) which allows them to spend more on non-QB positions.

Recap:
1. Chiefs: Mega-Contract Elite QB and go cheap at some other positions.
2. Niners: Cheap QB and spend big on other positions.
3. Cowboys: Mega-Contract Middle-of-the-Pack QB and go cheap at other positions.
 

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Spotrac isn’t what I’d call accurate all the time. OTC is better. But why would NFLPA have different numbers for all those years? It’s not Cowboy driven. Two separate articles reference them and multiple finance guys have gone through them. As I said they were discussed on the radio yesterday and so far there is no blowback. The original article compiled their data. Unless you can prove the NFLPA is putting out false data then the question is what are both sources basing “cash” as.

Honestly…and it’s been mentioned…I think there is some conspiracy/tin foil to all of it and I’m not a cap pro but it makes for good discussion
The NFLPA numbers are a subset of the total. It leaves out some categories of cash spending.

The Spotrac numbers are the total cash spent by teams.

The OTC and Spotrac numbers for 2024 are the same within 1% accuracy...

For OTC cash spend data prior to 2024, you need a paid subscription.
 

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Anyone claiming Jerry and company are cheap has lots of evidence. Outside of certain contracts of course; and spending on a franchise is a whole lot more than the players.
 

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Anyone claiming Jerry and company are cheap has lots of evidence. Outside of certain contracts of course; and spending on a franchise is a whole lot more than the players.
Not really. If the Chiefs had Dak instead of Mahomes, their fans would be melting downs over trading away their star CB this off-season and their star WR last off-seasoni.

Average Salary:
Dak: 40M
Mahomes: 45M

Summary: Having a big contract QB limits spending on other positions.
 

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That is not actully true.

Teams can take out "cap loans" in order to spend more some years; however, those loans must be paid back at some point in time with cap space from future years.

There is a reason that the Chiefs traded away their star CB this year and their star WR last year...

The Chiefs win because their 45M per (average) is paid to Mahomes while the Cowboys 40M (average) is paid to Dak.

The Niners made it to the SB because their QB averages less than 1 million (934K) which allows them to spend more on non-QB positions.

Recap:
1. Chiefs: Mega-Contract Elite QB and go cheap at some other positions.
2. Niners: Cheap QB and spend big on other positions.
3. Cowboys: Mega-Contract Middle-of-the-Pack QB and go cheap at other position
It actually is true accordingly to cash spent. Cowboys can use all the smoke and mirrors they want to make it appear like they are trying but they are content with the status quo. As far as the Jones' are considered, they win the super bowl every year because the only thing important to him is the all mighty dollar.

They literally aren't even trying when it comes to negotiations anymore but that's another can of worms for another day.
 

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Not really. If the Chiefs had Dak instead of Mahomes, their fans would be melting downs over trading away their star CB this off-season and their star WR last off-seasoni.

Average Salary:
Dak: 40M
Mahomes: 45M

Summary: Having a big contract QB limits spending on other positions.
Not really. If the Chiefs had Dak instead of Mahomes, their fans would be melting downs over trading away their star CB this off-season and their star WR last off-seasoni.

Average Salary:
Dak: 40M
Mahomes: 45M

Summary: Having a big contract QB limits spending on other positions.
Thing is, the Chiefs would never put themselves in a position to be held hostage by an average QB. Dak has all the leverage in the world and he can tell that the Cowboys are not serious about winning. Why not milk the cash cow for every penny.
 

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Even with the Cooper contract, Cooper literally had all the leverage in the world because of the timing of the bonus. The cowboys had no option but to release him or trade him on the first day of the league year. He could have easily been traded for a day 2 pick if the contract was negotiated better. We are now reliving this with Dak. I'm scared to see what happens with Parsons and CeeDee.
 

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I’m unclear exactly how it works but if dak did get an extension right now this offseason, the cowboys would have to give him a large up front signing bonus correct? I wonder if they just don’t wanna do it right now because they don’t want to give up like 50,60,70 million right now
 

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Not really. If the Chiefs had Dak instead of Mahomes, their fans would be melting downs over trading away their star CB this off-season and their star WR last off-seasoni.

Average Salary:
Dak: 40M
Mahomes: 45M

Summary: Having a big contract QB limits spending on other positions.

The cowboys could have extended both Ceedee and dak ahead of free agency and created cap space though, that a organizational decision not to.
 
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The salary cap in any given year is what dictates will be spent that season. Whether it's dead money, restructures from previous years, or signing bonuses for new players, those charges all equate to what's available to spend. Is it unreasonable to say they're not spending because previous decisions have determined that they are unable to spend without adverse affects on future finances?
You are correct, bad decisions made in the past (like giving Gallup a new contract coming off an ACL injury, paying Zeke the GDP of a small 3rd world country, ect...) have all contributed to cap charges for players no longer on the team.

That does affect how much you can spend going forward.
 

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This is directly from Spotrac, not from a blogger quoting some media person...

Top spending teams in 2021:

Cash Spenders
1. Cowboys, $262M
2. Buccaneers, $245M
3. Patriots, $241M

Cap Spenders
1. Cowboys, $201M
2. Patriots, $197M
3. Browns, $197M



Note; I'm contemplating getting the paid version of Spotrac which would give me the exact cash spend numbers for each season going back to 2011.

Alot went to Dak it's not like the cap was 262 million and not like we signed a big FA that year. We paid our own players. Nothing telling about none of this thread except Jerry spent money on the players he drafted and has nothing to show for it
 

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Almost the entire 262 million was the 18 they spent on Dak? I'm not sticking up for the FO, but I'm confused..lol
No almost the entire salary was spent on offense though. If I recall correctly cowboys spent the most on offfense and were either last or second to last on amount spent on defense. Still couldn’t get over the top with all those weapons on offense bc that was the year Dak and the overpriced offense only managed 17 pts against San Fran and kept defense on field the entire game.
 

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Salary, not cap hit.

He took home around $75mil in actual cash in 2021
that still does not equal the word most of took most of no 75,000,000 is a drop in the bucket to the total sal;ary cap.. But we always wanna do this go break down all the other teams they say the Cowboys don't spend enough money but there are other teams with quarterbacks making over 50 million or somewhere in that range let's just use 45 to 55 minutes with very highly paid quarterbacks why are they not at the top of this list I mean you always wanna break the front office down and just rip your own team but the point of the post always gets missed they say the Cowboys are not spending enough that they're cheap and they're not everyone has the same cap and the way you look at it from the three areas of how sport tracks breaks it down the Cowboys are still one of the ones that spend the money regardless if you don't like it or not and this all season by the way is only 15 days old they have a long ways between now and game one to put the roster together and we'll change the narrative of this offseason just like that off season was I believe the season or it could have been 2022 was called historically bad offseason and we ended up going to the second round of the playoffs with this historically bad offseason per the fans opinion...

The fans viewpoints and opinions don't really matter it only matters what happens on the field..
 

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The Dak contract is the giant elephant in the room.

That contract crippled the entire franchise.

We are done for the next 3 or 4 years at least.

This team is no where close to competing for a Super bowl and things will get worse before they get better.
 

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The NFLPA numbers are a subset of the total. It leaves out some categories of cash spending.

The Spotrac numbers are the total cash spent by teams.

The OTC and Spotrac numbers for 2024 are the same within 1% accuracy...

For OTC cash spend data prior to 2024, you need a paid subscription.

I spent a bit of time trying to figure out the disparity between the two.

If you took away the restructuring cash from the active cash you would get ~194mil spent. That's within 2 mil of the NFLPA numbers. Maybe something you could say is close enough as I'm sure spotrac/OTC have very close numbers but maybe not dead accurate to the thousands, and for 53 players that could be the % of error.
But why would the PA ignore IR cash and true dead cash? And restructuring cash?
Sort of wish there was a breakdown on how the PA got each teams cash spent. Unless I missed it in a link.
 

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That is not actully true.

Teams can take out "cap loans" in order to spend more some years; however, those loans must be paid back at some point in time with cap space from future years.

There is a reason that the Chiefs traded away their star CB this year and their star WR last year...

The Chiefs win because their 45M per (average) is paid to Mahomes while the Cowboys 40M (average) is paid to Dak.

The Niners made it to the SB because their QB averages less than 1 million (934K) which allows them to spend more on non-QB positions.

Recap:
1. Chiefs: Mega-Contract Elite QB and go cheap at some other positions.
2. Niners: Cheap QB and spend big on other positions.
3. Cowboys: Mega-Contract Middle-of-the-Pack QB and go cheap at other positions.
Yes, you take out a loan to open a “win now” window and deal with the payback later after making an honest effort at a Super Bowl. Yet, here we are with the window basically closed and there was never an honest effort at adding to the team. AND there is debt to pay back in dead $ as well. The Jones’ are a dog that is chasing its tail without ever getting anywhere.
 
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