2021 Cap Space Thread

waving monkey

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Cap space? We talking about cap space? Who cares about cap space? The Jonses aren't going to know what to do with it anyway. Heck, they'll probably re-sign Awuzie to a twelve million a year contract. Dummies.
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they have been fairly prudent with their cap purchases
 

jterrell

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Too many owners rely on the ever expanding cap and order to manage their teams.

given that I don't see them voting for anything less than the status quo which if I'm not mistaken is 198 million dollars or their about.

I think there's about zero chance that either party is going to want to see the cap drop and that includes the owners.
Whats not really pointed out here is a reduced cap likely makes players more money THIS YEAR.
Crazy talk? Nope.
A guy like say Jaylon Smith cut here. We shall pretend for this exercise his base was NOT already GTD...
We could cut him to remove 7.2M from the cap. Poor Jaylon? Nope.
Jaylon was handed checks for 13M last year.
If we cut him.
And he signs elsewhere?
He almost certainly has lower bases than 50 or so mil remaining over 5 years.
BUT he almost certainly pockets more than 7.2M in 2021.

Realistically looking at 2020 what would he get? Man, dude might not even be overpaid by 2020 standards.
Joe Schobert got paid 10M AAV. Same with Blake Martinez. Those are good but limited players.
But hey we are reducing salaries right so may he gets a 3 year 27M 9M AAV deal. --That's Anothony Hitchens money.
Year 1 he probably make at least 10M between signing bonus and base.
So even tho Dallas knocks off like 50M in future money, Jaylon actually makes more in 2021.

But owners win in the future right?
Not at all. Because the salary cap is going to rise and dudes taking shorter term deals will come up for free agency with larger budgets across the league in a couple/few seasons.
 

Mobinvans

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If they renegotiate the TV contracts early, this could make the cap around 196 million. From what I read back in December.
Cap space will go down for the first time since I can remember

NFL wasn’t very popular this year
 
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