The NFL is headed for no salary cap

[Hardline]

Paul Allan owner of the Seahawks is worth over 20 billion. Do we want Seahawks dominance over the league ?

 

[John813]

More than likely there'll be a cap on max contract(%) for players.

Doubt they'll give up the cap.


@Hardline Paul Allen is dead .

 

[cern]

I'm not holding my breath waiting for this to happen.

 

[Hardline]

More than likely there'll be a cap on max contract(%) for players.

Doubt they'll give up the cap.


@Hardline Paul Allen is dead .

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

There is never not being a salary cap....er....Its blasphemy to rethink your thoughts otherwise....er.....???

Sorry for the post. I was having a feud with my melon.

 

[atlantacowboy]

With today's QBs making $120 million plus, teams can't afford to surround their stars with talent. These billionaires will have to go back to the old days and outselling your opponent. Lucky for us....our owner is a master.

Never going to happen. It doesn't benefit players or owners. The salary cap is not just a ceiling for players salaries, its also a floor. Pretty sure the NFLPA doesn't want a league where only 6 or 7 teams are spending lots of money. Teams like GB, Pittsburgh, and other small market clubs would become feeder systems for Dallas and the other wealthy clubs. Great for us but it would never get approved.

 

[Insomniac]

The purpose of the salary cap is to limit the total amount of money spent on players and maximize the profits for the owners. Anyone who does not understand this should never have passed a college level course called microeconomics. (usually called Econ 102) The owners didn't insist on the CAp to make the league more competitive, they did it to make more profitable.

The only way that the salary cap goes away is of the NFLPA decertifies as a union and wins an anti-trust case against the NFL. The owners will fight to the death to keep the salary cap, if they had to (they don't) they'd give up the draft before they'd give up the salary cap. This would require the players enduring a multi-year lockout and hoping that the Supreme Court eventually decides in their favor. There's no chance of that happening with the current court and even if there were it wouldn't make any sense for the current players to give up 2-3 years of their career earnings in order to benefit future players. That's why the NFLPA has always lost for the last 50 years.

Everyone is complaining about high QB salaries but I think you're wrong. Considering the way the game is played now there's no doubt that a top 10 QB is worth far more than a top 10 pass rusher or OL. Easily 3 times as much but they don't get paid that much more. The thing is if you have a top 1 or 2 QB it makes a big difference, but an 8-10 QB, hasn't been worth 1/2 of Brady. However if the rest of the team is good/lucky enough and the above average QB has a hot streak in January-February you have a shot at lifting the trophy. Maybe you even have that chance if you have a marginal starter but it's a much smaller chance.

Teams will overpay for slightly above QBs because guys like Brady, Rodgers, Brees just don't become available unless they get old or are serious injury concerns. The above average guys at least give you the hope of victory and it's not that hard for teams to sell the vast majority of their fanbase on a "good" Qb being about to develop into a great QB.

 

[plymkr]

I think they should have 2 salary caps. One gap for players the team drafts and grooms. Ala, Prescott, Jaylon, DLaw, Zeke, etc. Then they should have another cap for FA signees like Cooper. The team drafted salary cap would be more forgiving then the FA salary cap. I think it sucks you get punished for drafting well and getting great players only to lose them or sacrifice the rest of the team for a couple players. Just my opinion.

 

[Sheffielder74UK]

Always thought the cap should be changed which encourages teams to be able to keep their own stars. I am not sure how it would work but we have a situation coming up where we are going to struggle to sign players we drafted to a 2nd contract.

Could they not change it so the Cap still has a floor, for example 120m which an unlimited ceiling, however you can only spend a maximum say 20m every year on Free agents

 

[Cattle_Rancher]

Never going to happen the cap is how they keep the players slice of the pie the size they want it and won’t never be a player exemption that would just mean more pie for players you will see an individual cap long before you see no cap Jerry was one of the people who pushed for cap he likes it cause he likes cash better than SBs as I expect most owners do.

 

[TwistedL0g1k]

The salary cap is here to stay.

It is disappointing to see a single player command such a large percentage of a team's cap.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Yep, kind of like the "Bird exception" in the NBA. You can sign a QB you originally signed/drafted for money beyond the cap.

I don't see them going for a free-for-all free agent market. That would only drive QB salaries higher.

+1 but I'll go a step further and add a QB contract can't be more than a certain percentage of your entire players' payroll.

 

[beware_d-ware]

I think an NBA-style max contract, set as a percentage of the salary cap, is much more likely than the NFL just throwing the salary cap away.

 

[Whyjerry]

Teams should be given partial exemptions for some of their drafted talent that are signed to a second contract.

100 pct agree. The NFL cap penalizes teams for drafting well. They should have the first choice to resign their own. Another example, in a long list, of the idiocy that is the NFL.

 

[Londonboy]

In other news.
Satan seen shopping for ice skates and thermal undies.

 

[CyberB0b]

Nope

 

[TwoDeep3]

If that happens then it will be the Cowboys Football League..

National Snyder Football League

 

[DallasDW00ds0n]

Will never happen. Our "master" has done nothing but speak glowingly about the cap

 

[pavalley]

Yep, kind of like the "Bird exception" in the NBA. You can sign a QB you originally signed/drafted for money beyond the cap.

I don't see them going for a free-for-all free agent market. That would only drive QB salaries higher.

Resigning all drafted players with some form of cap reduction would help teams that draft well and maybe rekindle fan loyalty

 

[ItzKelz]

With today's QBs making $120 million plus, teams can't afford to surround their stars with talent. These billionaires will have to go back to the old days and outselling your opponent. Lucky for us....our owner is a master.

Salary cap goes up every year therefore salaries go up every year. The same issues teams had with the cap 10 years ago are the same exact issues they have now