NFL salary cap could drop by $70 million per team next season?

just get rid of it.

Fizziksman said:

just get rid of it.

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Do you guys not understand that every single owner in the nfl "LOVES!" the salary cap?

It’s gonna be amazing to see this place defend Jerry next year against the greedy players.

doomsday9084 said:

Just so we remember, the cap is roughly 50% of revenue. What this is saying is that revenue is expected to drop by $140m per team next year (or about for round numbers). When you look at the $70 million per team cap reduction, that is already with the owners taking a $70m hit.

The cap IS going down. The owners aren't just going to eat a $140m per team loss. I have no idea how you even manage that. A lot of the cap hits were already paid. You can't just cut everyone's salary. Every team would likely be way over that number.

As far as Dak, man his agent is an idiot. He would have been much better off to take a huge signing bonus and put it in his pocket than deal with getting murdered next year. Dallas won't be able to give him the $37m tag and no team will have enough capspace to offer a huge contract. France is a freaking moron and cost multiple of his clients massive amounts of money because he didn't read the papers.

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Yeah..

Dak is going to drop like a stone shortly.

This is sort of interesting.

All that effort and standing up to Jerrah.

I hope the team can just get a do over on him and withdraw the deal now.


That would serve us so well.

speedkilz88 said:

Do you guys not understand that every single owner in the nfl "LOVES!" the salary cap?

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i know they do it allows them to take a bigger piece of the pie but still get rid of it

eastsideboy said:

I don't think I could be a fan of a team that I hate the owner with a passion

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See fans of the Washington _____________________. They are in an awful spot as far as allegiance to their team.

fivetwos said:

I didn't say it would be simple. The billionaire vs millionaire bouts often arent.

But players dont want to be cut in massive droves, and teams dont want to lose their players, and the league doesnt want teams using guys that dont belong in the league just because they play cheap.

They will have to work something out.

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Let's hope so!! What with this covid crap, they've got enough problems to cope with already without adding a salary cap calamity.

Redball Express said:

Sorry?
Now Jerrah should have known about a World Wide Pandemic and included provisions in contracts to account for it?
Now Jerrah is at fault becuz Dak is overstepping what he is worth?.......
No paying customers? They will have a 10 game season and maybe 2 rounds of p!layoffs and a SB........
.....Personally I think they should just stop the season and wait until the vaccine appears in 2021.

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No way! Too much money at stake, and too many fans out here who desperately need their annual football fix!! Including ME!

cowboyblue22 said:

billionares didnt get to be that way by always losing large amounts of money

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Is it really possible that so many billionaires never even considered the possibility of a temporary downturn in revenue and how to deal with it?
I mean with all these huge guaranteed salaries and all, and they've never even considered a plan B just in case?
Wow.

fivetwos said:

Itll be worked out.

Neither the players or owners want this to happen.

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I hope the cap goes to zero and then maybe the NFL WILL start thinking about their pregame policies and other social stances that are going to run off Ppl like me.

Adreme said:

The owners are not going to let their money drop. All that is going to happen is borrowing against future cap years increases so that in the end the owners still come out ahead. If it needs to be 70 million to keep the cap flat that will probably suggest a relatively flat cap for the next 3-4 years.

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So, borrowing against the future cap is the way to solve this problem? That's not how these guys made billions, trust me. If anything, they'll take the loss and write-off future profits. Imho anyway.

Buzzbait said:

Is it really possible that so many billionaires never even considered the possibility of a temporary downturn in revenue and how to deal with it?
I mean with all these huge guaranteed salaries and all, and they've never even considered a plan B just in case?
Wow.

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A temporary downturn would not be too problematic. A drop in salary cap of between 25% to 35% is a disaster, not a downturn. They're going to try to turn a disaster into a drawn out downturn.

I wouldn't be surprised if the league met somewhere in the middle.

ChuckA1 said:

So, borrowing against the future cap is the way to solve this problem? That's not how these guys made billions, trust me. If anything, they'll take the loss and write-off future profits. Imho anyway.

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That is a terrible solution for them. The owners have a vested interest in keeping a certain level of stability in the game plus there is the fact that there are multiple teams that literally cannot get under the salary cap if it dropped that low. That combined with the fact that they they want to avoid a situation where half of NFL players are playing on separate teams because that is a level of instability that makes owners uncomfortable.

For all these reasons they specifically wrote into the CBA a provision for a situation just like this that calls for them to negotiate a solution that maintains the stability of the current system. Borrowing against future years is a safe bet for them, as the TV contracts are already locked in for 10 years and money made from stadiums is also fairly consistent. Everyone knows that this is what is going to happen. The cap was slated to explode over the next 3 years, and as long as they do not rock the boat too badly that money will still come in, so it is the vested interest of everyone to keep the gravy train rolling. This aspect of it is the easy part of the negotiations because neither side wants the cap to drop like that. The tricky part is literally everything else being negotiated.

NFL owners will have an alternative solution. It may cost them some profits but diluting the talent to get down to that salary cap figure would devastate the NFL to the point were they might never recover.

Besides, you can believe that there are groups of vultures just waiting for the NFL to weaken enough to make another league viable.

eastsideboy said:

I don't think I could be a fan of a team that I hate the owner with a passion

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Oh, it's not that difficult if you have been a fan for 20 years prior to that owner. At that point, the emotional investment is so high, some fans may not be able to quit if they wanted to. Immediately, I can think of one specific example.

speedkilz88 said:

Do you guys not understand that every single owner in the nfl "LOVES!" the salary cap?

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It's the greatest thing to ever happen to the owners. They'll call it parity. Has a good ring to it.

This should be entertaining. Watch the NFLPA will refuse to accept pay cuts commensurate with a cap reduction. Imagine your QB making 40m of a 120m cap....then a strike...good times

fivetwos said:

If this was at ALL a hangup in Prescott negotiations, everyone involved blew it.

Perfect opportunity to simply make his salary a percentage of whatever the cap is, and the greedy agent would have had no complaint about not being able to cash in on a rising cap in that all too important year five.

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All contracts should be scaled that way.

This probably would have helped Dak get signed even without the threat of the cap dropping, as it seemed that Dak's side didn't want to lock in a contract with a potential huge increase of the cap coming.

If the cap is flat for the next four years or so, I don’t think you will see any record braking contracts for the next few years. It appears that the Mahomes contract is based on what’s going on with cap. All the big money he will receive is down the road. The Dak deal was not completed because of the uncertainty of the cap.

baltcowboy said:

If the cap is flat for the next four years or so, I don’t think you will see any record braking contracts for the next few years. It appears that the Mahomes contract is based on what’s going on with cap. All the big money he will receive is down the road. The Dak deal was not completed because of the uncertainty of the cap.

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And people actually thought Mahommes was being “team friendly”.